Pages

National Gazette No. 42829, 08 November 2019, Vol 653, Page 135

20191108 - National Gazette No 42829 of 08-November-2019, Volume 653, page 135

Page	135 of 280
Gazette	National Gazettes, No 42829, from 08 November, 2019
Department	ICASA
Notice	Page No. 71 of 209, Notice No. 600, Electronic Communications Act (36/2005), as amended » Notice regarding the Final International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) Roadmap 2019

STAATSKOERANT, 8 NOVEMBER 2019                      No. 42829    135

A South African telecoms market report by Analysis Mason indicates over 11 million smart phone
                                                                               rd
                   connections and over 4 million mobile broadband subscribers by the 3 quarter of 2013. This growth
                   in subscribers coincides with a commercial launch of LTE by mobile network operators between late
                   2012 and early 2013, which again shows the demand for LTE and IMT services is growing.

September
                                                         2009      2010      2011      2012
                                                                                                 2013

Mobile subscribers (active SIMs)  46 861 000  49 475 000  59 015 000  66 610 000  69 272 000

Mobile penetration (percentage of
                                                        91.6 %    95.7 %    113.1 %   126.7 %   131.0 %
                         population)

Prepaid subscribers as a percentage of
                                                        83.2 %    81.5 %    82.1 %    82.7 %    82.2 %
                         mobile subscribers

3G subscribers as a percentage of
                                                        10.7 %    14.8 %    20.0 %    25.6 %    28.9 %
                         mobile subscribers
                   Mobile
                         Mobile broadband subscribers (mid
                                                       1 272 000  2 053 000  2 743 000  3 589 000  4 170 000
                         and large screen)

Number of smartphone connections  2 049 000  3 345 000  5 969 000  9 138 000  11 184 000

Mobile ARPU (ZAR per month)    146.43    150.61    140.98    126.58    110.46

USD per month                   17.66     20.67     19.61     15.52     13.54

Mobile MoU (minutes per month)   64        71        77        74        73

Table 9: Telecoms KPIs, South Africa, 2009-3Q 2013

(Source: Analysys Mason, Economist Intelligence Unit for nominal GDP per capita, 2014

27
                   ICASA in 2014 released the State of the ICT Sector in South Africa report , detailing the trends in
                   the country’s mobile data sector. ICASA is responsible for the collection of statistics to monitor and
                   report on the progress of ICT in the country, and monitors aspects such as smartphone adoption and
                   mobile data usage.

The questionnaires used to collect the relevant information were customised for the three sectors that
                   ICASA regulates, namely telecommunications, broadcasting and postal. Responses were received

27  Analysys Mason, Economist Intelligence Unit for nominal GDP per capita, 2014

Page 69 of 205

< page 134	View full Gazette No. 42829	page 136 >

Type your email for free alerts on latest Independent Communications Authority of South Africa notices as they are published

greengazette

Pages

Links

Publications