MTN named the best mobile network for 2024 – report
The yellow network topped the list with a network quality score of 9.90.
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Mobile service provider MTN has been named the best mobile network in South Africa for 2024.
This is according to MyBroadband’s latest Insights Mobile Network Quality Report.
The annual report includes 1.17 million speed tests performed by 18,649 crowd-sourced mobile data users and dedicated drive tests from 1 January to 31 December 2024.
MTN topped the list with a network quality score of 9.90.
The score is based on download speed, upload speed and latency.
MTN averaged download speeds of MTN 80.88 mb/s, an upload speed of 25.24 mb/s and latency of 30 ms.
“MTN was also the top-performing network across major cities, including Tshwane, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela Bay, Ekurhuleni, eThekwini, and Mangaung,” the report reads.
The second-best operator, with a network quality score of 7.2 was Vodacom, followed by Cell C (7.12), Telkom (5.07) and Rain (4.51).