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<br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">While South Africa ranks poorly on prepaid mobile prices compared to other African countries, it </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">does better on pricing of mobile broadband data. But while South Africa performs well on highusage mobile data packages for both prepaid and postpaid mobile baskets (and for lower-use postpaid), the prices for lower–use prepaid mobile, where affordability is most likely to be an issue, remain relatively high. ADSL across the board also is high. Further, unlike in more developed nations, </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">where fixed is the predominant form of broadband access in South Africa, mobile broadband is predominant - it is also, unlike in those markets, both cheaper and faster than fixed. However, wireless </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">is inherently less stable than fixed broadband technologies such as XDSL and fibre and the implications of not having ubiquitous, reliable always on high-speed connectivity for the economy and </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">global competitiveness are serious</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div><br></div></div>