Smartphone explosion doubles internet uptake
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
According to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Statistics Report released this week, individual internet subscriptions jumped 86.7 percent in 2013, largely due to a similarly huge 87.6 percent jump in mobile internet subscriptions.
The mobile internet growth far outweighed the rise in fixed internet subscriptions, which grew by 47 percent in the period.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...