Country
South Africa
Address space that resolves to South Africa, and who operates it.
Where the space resolves, which is an estimate for the block, not a fix on any device. A network can hold space in many countries at once, so the same space is counted on more than one country page.
What this tells you
- 1,094 networks hold address space located in South Africa, run by 182 operators we can group by name.
- An estimated 38,275,076 people browse from South Africa, over a 60 day window. Counted where the users are, whatever registry their network belongs to.
- The largest operator we can identify by name here is Dimension Data, holding 15% of the IPv4 space.
- VPN exit infrastructure here belongs to Apple Private Relay, ProtonVPN, TunnelBear and 15 other providers. An address in South Africa is not necessarily a person in South Africa.
Operators holding the most space here
Of the address space resolving to South Africa, networks we can group under a named operator account for 53% of its IPv4 and 90% of its IPv6. The table below divides that space. The rest belongs either to networks whose operator we cannot identify by name, or to space no network announces.
| Operator | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Data | 28% | 2% | |
| Vodacom | 21% | 5% | |
| Telkom SA Ltd. | 20% | 84% | |
| MTN SA | 8% | - | |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 7% | <0.1% | |
| Microsoft Corporation | 5% | - | |
| PCCW Global (HK) Ltd. | 2% | <0.1% | |
| RAIN GROUP HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD | 2% | 5% | |
| HERO TELECOMS (PTY) LTD | 1% | 0.2% | |
| eNetworks cc | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
| D2CLOUD NETWORK SERVICES (PTY) LTD | <0.1% | 1% | |
| Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of South Africa | <0.1% | 0.3% | |
| Everything else (170 more) | 5% | 1% |
Networks holding the most space here
Networks announce 95% of this country's IPv4 space and 99% of its IPv6 space. The table below divides that space.
| Network | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AS3741 Dimension Data | 10% | 2% | |
| AS16637 MTN SA (Bayobab) | 9% | <0.1% | |
| AS29975 Vodacom | 9% | 5% | |
| AS37168 Cell C (Pty) Ltd | 6% | - | |
| AS37457 Telkom SA Ltd. | 6% | 0.6% | |
| AS5713 Telkom SA Ltd. | 5% | 75% | |
| AS12091 MTN SA | 4% | - | |
| AS2018 TENET (The UNINET Project) | 4% | <0.1% | |
| AS37611 AFRIHOST SP (PTY) LTD | 2% | 0.3% | |
| AS37105 RAIN GROUP HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD | 1.0% | 5% | |
| AS37049 SADV (Pty) Ltd | <0.1% | 0.3% | |
| AS34672 D2CLOUD NETWORK SERVICES (PTY) LTD | <0.1% | 0.7% | |
| Everything else (1,082 more) | 44% | 11% |
Organisations holding space here
Registered organisations account for 94% of this country's IPv4 space and 100% of its IPv6 space. The table below divides that space. Registered holders come from the bulk whois that RIPE, APNIC and AFRINIC publish. ARIN and LACNIC do not publish theirs, so space held in North and South America is largely unattributed here.
| Organisation | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTN SA | 14% | <0.1% | |
| Dimension Data | 13% | 2% | |
| Vodacom | 12% | 5% | |
| Telkom SA Ltd. | 10% | 76% | |
| Cell C (Pty) Ltd | 10% | <0.1% | |
| Government of South Africa | 1% | - | |
| AFRIHOST SP (PTY) LTD | 1% | 0.3% | |
| RAIN GROUP HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD | 1% | 5% | |
| SADV (Pty) Ltd | <0.1% | 0.3% | |
| Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of South Africa | <0.1% | 0.3% | |
| D2CLOUD NETWORK SERVICES (PTY) LTD | <0.1% | 1% | |
| Everything else (1,231 more) | 38% | 10% |
Anonymizer signals
Flagged space covers 10% of this country's IPv4 space and 0.1% of its IPv6 space. The table below divides that space.
| Category | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open proxy | 92% | 78% | |
| Datacenter | 89% | 58% | |
| VPN | 3% | 14% | |
| Not covered by any of these | - | - |
One address can carry more than one of these, so the rows add up to more than the space they cover.
VPN providers with exits here
Space published by a named VPN provider covers <0.1% of this country's IPv4 space and <0.1% of its IPv6 space. The table below divides that space. That counts only what providers publish as their own exits. Space merely associated with VPN use is wider, and is counted under Anonymizer signals above.
| Provider | IPv4 share | IPv6 share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Private Relay | 60% | 100% | |
| ProtonVPN | 8% | - | |
| TunnelBear | 8% | - | |
| NordVPN | 6% | - | |
| Windscribe | 5% | - | |
| CyberGhost | 3% | - | |
| Private Internet Access | 3% | - | |
| VPN Unlimited | 2% | - | |
| Mullvad | 0.6% | <0.1% | |
| Everything else (9 more) | 6% | - |
Every figure on this page is also JSON: /api/v2/directory/country/za. Breakdowns paginate from there, so a table showing the largest rows here returns all of them. Read the API.