{"id":293234,"date":"2019-01-14T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T05:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=293234"},"modified":"2019-01-14T07:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T05:50:02","slug":"south-africas-best-mobile-network-vodacom-vs-mtn-vs-cell-c-vs-telkom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/293234\/south-africas-best-mobile-network-vodacom-vs-mtn-vs-cell-c-vs-telkom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s best mobile network: Vodacom vs MTN vs Cell C vs Telkom"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband Insights has released its Q4 2018 Mobile Network Quality Report, which ranks South Africa\u2019s mobile networks.<\/p>\n

The report is based on 12,092 unique results from MyBroadband\u2019s android speed test app which were recorded between 1 October 2018 and 31 December 2018.<\/p>\n

The download speed (60%), upload speed (20%), and latency (20%) are used to calculate a network quality score. The network score is a value which shows the relative performance of networks, with a maximum score of 10.<\/p>\n

To ensure accurate results, unnatural results were \ufb01ltered out, and cell down-sampling was used, MyBroadband Insights said.<\/p>\n

MTN comes out on top<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The research shows that South Africa had an average mobile download speed of 22.18 Mbps during the period.<\/p>\n

MTN had the highest average download speed at 26.95 Mbps, followed by Vodacom on 26.78 Mbps, Rain on 21.67 Mbps, Telkom on 19.83 Mbps, and Cell C on 15.56 Mbps.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband Insights director, Marius Hollenbach said the results were in line with expectations and closely tracked the network investments by mobile operators.<\/p>\n

Hollenbach said that MTN\u2019s network investment over the past few years was significantly higher than Vodacom\u2019s, a fact that was now being reflected in these results.<\/p>\n

MTN has made significant infrastructure investments over the last four years, with the company spending R43.6 billion to expand its 3G and LTE network footprint across South Africa.<\/p>\n

MTN currently has more than 11,000 LTE sites which brought its 4G population coverage in the country up to 90%.<\/p>\n

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Read: Vodacom pays ex-worker for `Please Call Me\u2019 idea<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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