Petabyte people — South Africa’s biggest bandwidth beasts

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Petabyte people — South Africa’s biggest bandwidth beasts
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A handful of fibre-to-the-home users in South Africa accounted for over two petabytes of data consumption in the first half of 2024.

Just ten of South Africa’s fibre-to-the-home users accounted for over two petabytes of Internet data consumption in the first half of 2024.Internet exchange point NAPAfrica has consistently recorded peak daily traffic over four terabits-per-second since May 2024.

Another factor has been increased video streaming and downloading of gaming content, applications which use substantially more data than regular Internet browsing. The ISP said it had no valid concerns regarding abuse of its network resources or bandwidth usage reaching a point where service quality degrades for other users.For our latest breakdown of the biggest fibre bandwidth users, Axxess and RSAWeb were the only ISPs that could provide individual user consumption.

Software developers can also consume huge quantities of data while working with large databases from home.

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