Do you want to know What Tanzanians Use their Internet Bandwidth Most for ? The third quarter of 2022 (October to December), as reported in the most recent data by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), had close to 200 trillion gigabytes being used nationwide on various internet platforms.
During the quarter ending December 2022, the service that used more bandwidth (in GBs) is Facebook with total of 90.01 trillion GBs
which mostly is due to Facebook video service. The second is YouTube with total of 34.97 trillion GBs, thi is because video streaming
services have shown a great consumption of bandwidth than other services. Figure 4 represent the top 10 of internet services with most
bandwidth consumption.
What Tanzanians Use their Internet Bandwidth Most for in the The third quarter of 2022 (October to December :
HOW INTERNET BANDWIDTH IN TANZANIA WAS USED:
- Facebook: 90.1 Trillion Gb
- YouTube: 34.97 Trillion Gb
- WhatsApp: 31.67 Trillion Gb
- Tiktok: 21.95 Trillion Gb
- Instagram: 13.43 Trillion Gb
- BitTorrents: 4.29 Trillion Gb
- Netflix: 3.67 Trillion Gb
- Other streaming services: 2.63 Trn Gb
- Snapchat: 1.63 Trillion Gb
Tanzania currently has 31.1 million internet users..
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About the TCRA .
The TCRA Act No. 12 of 2003 created the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), an autonomous authority regulating the postal, broadcasting, and electronic communications sectors in the United Republic of Tanzania.
The Tanzania Broadcasting Commission and the Tanzania Communications Commission were combined.
The Communications and Technology Ministry is the TCRA’s principal supervisor.
It is noteworthy that geographical, political (national), and technological issues have had an impact on Tanzania’s Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) sector reform.
According to the Tanzania Communications Regulations, Tanzania is one of the few African nations to liberalize the communications industry, using the Converged Licensing Framework (CLF) as a primary strategy.
