South Africa currenlty has roughly 1.8 million Interent users in a country of 44 million people. As a result of a monopoly in the telecommunications industry, the cost of connectivity has been greatly inflated.

The main types of connectivity are:

• Dial-up

Dial-up sees top speeds of 33 kbps

• Cost: ~USD$20 / Mo

• ADSL (only about 100,000 customers country wide)

Residential ADSL is up to 512 kbps

• Cost: ~USD$180 / Mo (with a 3 Gig cap on both national and international traffic)

There are 2 major ISPs:

• Telkom
• Mweb