How to Monetize Internet Traffic From South Africa 2010

Host of the highly anticipated World Cup in South Africa is the 25th richest country in the world ranking in terms of GDP. However, there is still a huge gap between rich and poor, for about a quarter of a 49m high population unemployed and living on less than the equivalent of $ 1.25 per day.

Of the remaining three quarters are about four and a half million people or 9.4 percent of the total population, access to the Internet is now fixed. Perhaps surprisingly, this is not the highest rate of Internet penetration in the region - that the special honor, the island state of Mauritius is excellent.

According to Euromonitor debit cards dominate the South African market of payment cards, with 28 million of them in traffic from 2008 to about 8 million credit cards in comparison, to be remarkable, the law does not not used to buy gasoline. Given the influx of tourists come, the politicians are working on these schemes so that people can revise pay for gas with their flexible friends.

As a premium-rate numbers, pay-per-call South Africa is the only country in Africa that this support and Premium SMS (PSMS), a viable mechanism for the settlement is in this market.

Acceptance of cash out of the country largely without a bank account is also possible to e-commerce provider Thanks Smart Payment Ltd. Now, trading as Ukash, which are the first online payment solutions Cash was South Africa, so that online traders in the market for consumers in the country large cash base for the first time.

Ukash United Kingdom, in partnership with the strategic partner of South African Blue Label Telecoms, allows consumers do not have a card or do not want to buy on the Internet use of online merchants, without the sensitive data bank with prepaid vouchers.

In decided to hold a credit card as payment policy, "then you are depriving additional revenue when traffic information is received from this, the largest economy of the African Union.