{"id":821164,"date":"2025-04-16T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=821164"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:29:36","slug":"mtn-dominating-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/821164\/mtn-dominating-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN dominating in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MyBroadband Insights has released its Q1 2025 Mobile Network Quality Report, which shows that MTN still has the best mobile network in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The findings are based on 306,299 speed tests conducted by 6,999 mobile users across the country between 1 January and 31 March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The testing included a combination of crowdsourced data and dedicated drive tests, providing a comprehensive assessment of mobile network performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the drive testing, MyBroadband Insights travelled 13,000 km and tested networks in South Africa\u2019s major cities, towns, and roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Testing was performed using high-end smartphones with support for the latest technologies, as well as mid-range devices that reflect the experience of typical users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MTN dominated overall network performance and consistently outperformed its competitors across the most important metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It recorded the highest average download speed at 82.79 Mbps, followed by Cell C at 63.95 Mbps, Vodacom at 61.36 Mbps, Telkom at 46.60 Mbps, and Rain at 22.79 Mbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MTN was also the top-performing network in major metros including Tshwane, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela Bay, Ekurhuleni, eThekwini, and Mangaung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its strong performance is attributed to continued investment in network infrastructure for both LTE and 5G networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most significant development in this report was that Cell C replaced Vodacom as the second-best mobile network in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cell C’s performance is driven by completing its customer migration to a virtual radio access network hosted by MTN and optimisation strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first time Vodacom has not been ranked as the country’s best or second-best network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some consolation is that Vodacom delivered the best 5G performance in the country, driven by the ongoing expansion of its 5G network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best mobile network in South Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To determine the best mobile network in South Africa, each network was given a \u201cNetwork Quality Score\u201d based on download speed, upload speed, and latency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Network Quality Score out of 10 then shows how a network performed in relation to other networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MTN reigned supreme with a Network Quality Score of 9.92, followed by Cell C at 8.07, Vodacom at 7.21, Telkom at 6.15, and Rain at 4.44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The table below provides an overview of the mobile network rankings in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MyBroadband Insights’ latest Mobile Network Quality Report shows that MTN is dominating its competitors when it comes to the best quality in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":820193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[42,28,22314,11939,65,27],"class_list":["post-821164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-cell-c","tag-mtn","tag-mybroadband-insights","tag-rain","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821167,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821164\/revisions\/821167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}