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South Africa … 5 million online and growing

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South Africa is one of the fastest growing markets for mobile and internet usage is also growing rapidly. A history of poor international bandwidth / connectivity has meant speeds have remained slow. South Africa’s internet users grew from 4.6 million to 5.3 million last year, a rise of 15%, according to research by World Wide [...]

BBC iPlayer steams ahead with internet usage

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Comment: Internet traffic to the iPlayer site is growing rapidly supported by outside advertising posterboards as well as reminders during TV advertising. However a lot of internet traffic seems to be sucked up by their kservices P2P network which aims to share the downloaded files with other iPlayer users. UK Internet traffic to the BBC’s [...]