Access costs in SA are high and the country ranks 129th for monthly residential telephone subscriptions, 102nd for mobile cellular tariffs and 79th for broadband Internet tariffs.
Government is failing to use information and communications technology to improve its operations; and the costs of access to the wired world remain way too high, stifling productivity.
This is according to the findings of a report by the World Economic Forum, in association with Insead Business School of Switzerland, on the progress and impact of information technology around the world.