These Are Sub-Saharan Cities And Operators With The Fastest Mobile Speeds

Vodacom in Johannesburg stole the show in terms of being the fastest mobile operator across 12 African cities, a report by speed test service Ookla revealed on Monday.

Ookla said Johannesburg led the pack, with a median download speed of 66.54 Mbps, ahead of Cape Town at 49.22 Mbps.

Vodacom got ahead of MTN in Johannesburg and was the fastest operator across 12 cities we analysed, with a median download speed of 81.36 Mbps in Q2 2022 compared to 73.83 Mbps in Q1 2022.

MTN was faster in Cape Town.

“Taking 5G out of the equation, Orange in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana, achieved median download speeds of 39.46 Mbps,” said Ookla.

Also read: MTN Is The Fastet Operator In Sub-Saharan Africa

New research from credible network speed-testing services Ookla has put MTN ahead of rivals – Airtel, Orange, and Vodacom – in terms of the speed available on their respective network.

The report by Ookla revealed that MTN was the fastest mobile operator among the top four providers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Speedtest Intelligence data shows that MTN South Africa delivered the fastest median download speeds across analyzed operators, at 65.95 Mbps in Q2 2022.