Solid growth in corporate usage, and dramatic uptake of broadband has, however, helped to push the number of South Africans with Internet access up to 5 percent.
This is the key finding of the latest edition of World Wide Worx's annual study of the SA Internet access industry.
According to 'The Goldstuck Report: Internet Access in South Africa 2005,' 3.6 million South Africans will have access to the Internet at the end of 2005.
This means growth in 2005 ticked up slightly from 4 percent in 2004 to 5 percent in 2005, giving 1 in every 12 South Africans access to the Internet, marginally up from 1 in 13 at the end of 2003.