World Wide WorxSouth Africa has 21-million internet users, the vast majority of which are using mobile, according to new research that shows 40% of the population will go online this year. With a population of 55.9-million people, as of June 2016, the country is experiencing a boom in internet access, with online users projected to reach 22.5 million by the end of 2017, according to the Internet Access in South Africa 2017 study by World Wide Worx. "Most people access the internet via mobile," Arthur Goldstuck, managing director of researchers World Wide Worx, told me. "One can see massive appetite for faster internet access at the top of the market and cheap internet access at the bottom of the market. We see that in the fact that the rollout of fibre-to-the-home was followed very shortly by the decline of ADSL connections in South Africa.

Source: Forbes July 19, 2017 18:55 UTC