Doesn&#x27;t South Africa have a backhaul problem though? Overpriced internet in North America tends to be artificial scarcity at the last mile. I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s the case in SA?<p>I&#x27;ve visited quite a few times and yeah, your internet connections truly are painful to use even when I&#x27;m on holiday and not really using the net that much. Much worse than rural areas of Europe which typically only get 1-3Mbit&#x2F;s ADSL. Some of it is the latency to faraway CDNs and EU&#x2F;US-centric servers and saturated intercontinental cables, but even South African sites seem to be awfully slow, with high latency, which to me suggests overloading on the core infrastructure. Is that the case? (I know you see microwave comms towers all over the place - if those are being used as the main cross-country internet links then that could be it.)