Best mobile network in South Africa

MyBroadband has released the 2020 Mobile Network Quality Report, which shows that MTN has the best mobile network in South Africa.

The report is based on 1.2 million speed tests which were performed by 41,000 Speed Test App users across South Africa between 1 January and 31 December 2020.

The now released research shows that South Africa had an average download speed of 29.33Mbps and an average upload speed of 11.24Mbps last year.

MTN has shown the highest average download speed at 52.84Mbps, followed by Vodacom on 29.39Mbps, Telkom on 21.58Mbps, Cell C on 17.46Mbps, and Rain on 11.90Mbps.

During 2020, the average network speed of South Africa’s mobile operators increased significantly despite higher data usage as many people were online during the lockdown.

Vodacom and MTN as reported had launched 5G networks during the lockdown using the temporary spectrum.

There was, however, one operator that saw its download speed decline over the last year – Rain.

The average recorded and calculated download speed on Rain’s network declined from 15.20Mbps in the first quarter of the year to 11.41Mbps in the fourth quarter.

 

Best mobile network in South Africa

This is data released by MyBroadband on their website to show which network was the best in the country.

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Download speed change during 2020

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Average Mobile Network Performance in 2020 (all networks)