South Africa, August 2020, Mobile Network Experience
A quick glance at our awards table shows that MTN and Vodacom are still the two main players in South Africa’s mobile experience landscape, while Telkom and Cell C haven’t made an appearance in the table, yet.
The State of Mobile Network Experience 2020: One year into the 5G Era
One year on from the first launch of 5G services for smartphone users back in April 2019, Opensignal looks at what’s changed across 100 countries globally on six different measures of the mobile network experience, including upload and download speed, video, voice and games experience, along with the percentage of time that 4G users spent connected to a 4G network (4G Availability).
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South Africa leads the continent in mobile network experience
Opensignal's recent State of Mobile Network Experience report ranked 87 of the world's mobile nations across our key metrics, with the usual suspects – Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, and South Korea – topping our global rankings.
South Africa’s smartphone users experience faster download speeds on mobile than Wifi
Opensignal analyzed the download speeds that South African users experience when they connect to mobile networks compared to Wifi, and found that cellular technology provided faster download speeds at all times of the day.
South Africa, February 2019, Mobile Network Experience
MTN and Vodacom drew for our Download Speed Experience award in South Africa, after a Vodacom win six months ago.
MTN takes the prize in a close South Africa video experience race
OpenSignal's recent report on the South Africa mobile market showed something of a two-horse race.
South Africa, September 2018, State of Mobile Networks
Vodacom won all four of our national network speed commendations, including the coveted 4G download speed award.
South Africa, March 2018, Mobile Networks Update
In August Opensignal took its first look at South Africa in its State of Mobile Networks report.
