SA Internet access grows - but more slowly
19 June 2002
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2,89-million South Africans had access to the Internet at the end of 2001. This number will grow to around 3,1 million by the end of 2002.
According to 'The Goldstuck Report: Internet Access in South Africa, 2002', only 1 in 15 South Africans had access to the Internet at the end of last year. This has emerged from a six-month research project led by Arthur Goldstuck, managing director of technology research company World Wide Worx.
By the end of 2002, Internet access will have improved only marginally, to 1 in 14 South Africans. According to the report, the slow growth is largely a factor of delays in licensing a second network operator, Telkom's own uncompromising attitude towards Internet service providers, and market ignorance about the continued value of the Internet in the wake of the technology market crash of 2000 and 2001.
The research builds on Goldstuck's nine years of surveying the Internet market in South Africa since its inception in 1993. He first published estimates of the market size in 1995, and led Media Africa's ground-breaking research into the ISP industry from 1997 to 2000.
For further information, see www.theworx.biz
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