Connectivity Scorecard › South Africa | Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks
Study created by Professor Leonard Waverman, London Business School, and economic consulting firm LECG, commissioned by Nokia Siemens Networks.
South Africa
Connectivity
score 5.26
Executive Summary
South Africa is a middling performer in its peer group of 'resource and efficiency-driven' economies, ranking 5th out of 9 countries, with a score of 5.26. There are some interesting variations in South Africa’s performance, with its mobile sector performing relatively well and its fixed-line sector performing relatively poorly. South Africa does relatively well in terms of provision of government services and quite well in terms of consumer readiness to adapt ICT. Where South Africa lags behind, however, is in the fixed-line sector, particularly in broadband penetration. Also South Africa needs to improve workforce quality and user skills to maximise the benefits of its existing infrastructure.
South Africa Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component
Areas of strength
Consumer spending on software and gender equality in Internet access
Consumer infrastructure - 96% of the population covered by mobile networks
Business infrastructure - hardware and software spending by business; secure Internet servers per million inhabitants
E-government rating
Areas for improvement
Consumer infrastructure - broadband penetration, international bandwidth per capita, and use of secure web servers
Business usage and skills, in particular the proportion of the workforce that has at least completed primary school
Government infrastructure, e.g. connecting schools to the Internet