This heading sounds pretty good right? South Africa is leading Africa's economy... Well it is actually quite an embarrassing heading, if we had to compare the infrastructure and economic state of South Africa to the rest of the countries in Africa, one can see that there is a huge difference.
One would expect data prices to be lower in South Africa than in other countries because the economy is more developed and most of the infrastructure is already in place.
Sadly this is not so.
Now to put things even worse, many people within South Africa can not get a fiber line, but this is a good things are fiber costs even more, as it is faster.
Crazy price right?
Well after being robbed by your service provider, you get uncapped ADSL at 4mbps at R599 (what I currently run on). Funny thing is I get 1.23mbps download speed to Johannasburg (36km away) and 0.98mbps download speed to Cape town... So I do not get what I pay for... but that is not the worst. After downloading about 75G's of data, they throttle your speed to the point where it takes 5min to open a webpage...
SO MUCH FOR UNCAPPED!!!!
This is how I feel most days on steemit with my wonderful internet.
I once made the mistake of calling Telkom about how slow the internet is... this was me, call still on hold...
