By David Ohito
Kenya has more internet users than South Africa, the latest
internet world statistics report shows.
Kenya is ranked fourth among Africa’s top internet countries
as at December 31 2011 figures. Nigeria is ranked the number one country with
45 million users but this is attributed to its huge population of over 155
million people.
Kenya which has a paltry 200,000 internet users in the year
2000 but currently enjoys 10.4 million
users as at the end of last year.
This figure however varies from the CCK statistics that put
total number of internet users at 17.3 million combining all mobile and data
internet subscribers, terrestrial wireless subscribers, satellite
subscriptions, fixed internet connections, fiber optic subscriptions and fixed
cable modem users.
According to the World Internet statistics, Kenya’s internet penetration is estimated at 25.5
percent of the population which stands at 41 million people. CCK’s figures put
the penetration at 36.6 percent.
The Kenyans users account for Africa’s 7.5 percent people
with access to internet.
The fresh report published on
www.internetworldstats.com explain how
the growth in internet uptake has
yielded fruits in Kenya.
The report notes that growth in Africa’s Internet and
Broadband sector has accelerated in recent years due to improvements in
infrastructure, the arrival of wireless access technologies and lower tariffs.
“Broadband is rapidly replacing dial-up as the preferred
access method. This process is already virtually completed in Africa’s more
developed markets. This report provides 126 statistical tables showing trends
and developments in the telecommunications markets of the 38 most significant
African countries in terms of telecommunications,”
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) quarterly
sector statistics for the period October-December 2011 lauded the increase and
attributed it to mobile internet subscriptions.
According to CCK, Safaricom mobile data and internet
subscriptions stood at 4.6 million users, Yu Mobile followed with 670,000
subscribers, Airtel commanded about 608,000 users while Telkom Kenya had some
110,000 users.
Source: The STANDARD DIGITAL
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