Talk:Internet in South Africa

Political reference

"early on in the transition from the apartheid-era rule of South Africa's National Party to multi-party, multiracial government under the African National Congress" - Is this relevant for this article? Bernd Jendrissek (talk) 12:05, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

I also fail to see the relevance of the political reference. Therefore, deletion is  Done. --User:DiscipleOfKnowledge (talk) 03:46, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

The political commentry remains, very odd. Perhaps mention of the early networks that preceeded the SA internet would be valuable. Also the move to commercial use of the internet was held back for quite a while and hobby users had access via UUCP and USENET gateways before the co.za domains came into use. My research has shown that BKSINC.co.za was the first commercial domain registered, the company still exists but have a new domain. Idyllic press (talk) 12:26, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

I have added a bit of balance to the political commentry but I still think none of it is relevant to the page and should all be removed. Idyllic press (talk) 08:28, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

More Detail

Readers want to know more about the topology of SA networks including the function of Tier1 network providers such as Telkom SAIX etc. Antony Carthy (talk) 16:48, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

I struggle to see why the political references are relevant. I think it suggests amateur authors or blatant advertising. I expected a more technical article as the comment above suggests. 41.134.75.2 (talk) 08:52, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I am going to start working on this. --User:DiscipleOfKnowledge (talk) 03:47, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Interesting links

Here are a few sites that might bear mentioning

http://archive.hmvh.net/txtfiles/interbbs/SAInternetHistory.pdf

http://www.internet.org.za/

history.internet.org.za was mentioned on the radio today so there may be extra people searching for information Idyllic press (talk) 13:03, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Update stats section

The stats quoted are now rather old. According to The New Wave report (2012) based on research conducted by Research ICT Africa and the South African Network Society project at University of Witwatersrand, 34% (12.3m) South African adults (age 15 and over) use the Internet. This is based on a representative survey. See www.networksociety.co.za for more information. (Full disclosure: I wrote the report) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Researcher in africa (talk • contribs) 13:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

The figures reported in the New Wave report from the South African Network Society Project are strikingly different from the figures reported for South Africa by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The New Wave report says 34% of South Africans use the Internet in 2012, while the ITU reports 74.2% are using the Internet in 2011. Or the New Wave report says that 24% of households have a computer at home in 2012, while the ITU reports 69% in 2011. The New Wave reports 20% of households have Internet access from home in 2012, while the ITU reports 57.7% in 2011.

Any ideas about why the figures are so different? Am I comparing apples to oranges or otherwise misunderstanding that the different figures represent?

Here are some figures from the ITU:

Use as a percentage of Kuwait's population:

	2001	2006	2011
Individuals using the Internet	8.6%	28.8%	74.2%
Fixed broadband subscriptions	0.3%	1.3%	1.7%
Households with a computer	—	—	69.0%
Households with Internet access	—	—	57.7%

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I'm hoping to update the Statistics section of the article with more recent data and also add some references since the section is almost entirely unreferenced now. But with the differences between the New Wave report's figures and the figures from the ITU, I am at a loss on how to figure out what figures to use. Suggestions needed and welcome.

--Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 04:08, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

It appears stats have not been updated for a while, where can we find the updated stats for 2021? TapticInfo (talk) 19:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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Updated 2021 Statistics

Statistics have not been updated since like 2016, where can we find these updated stats for 2021 and add update the page? TapticInfo (talk) 19:11, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Outdated Fiber Optic Cable Systems

Fiber optic cable network infrastructure has not been updated since 2013, we need to try and update these TapticInfo (talk) 19:12, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Internet in South Africa

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Internet in South Africa's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "ITU":

• From Discrete cosine transform: "History of Video Compression". ITU-T. Joint Video Team (JVT) of ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6). July 2002. pp. 11, 24–9, 33, 40–1, 53–6. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
• From Internet in Africa: ITU (2007)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:28, 8 April 2021 (UTC)