SA Mobile Speed faster than Verizon, Sprint, AT&T in US!
South Africa easily trumped the United States on download speeds, the US had higher average upload speeds than South Africa.ย This may well be related to local subscribers who formed part of the survey using older modems which are not HSUPA enabled.
The following table provides a snapshot of the results from the recent surveys…
PC World research and the 2009 Broadband Survey conducted by MyBroadband.
Mobile Broadband Speed Comparison
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Average Download Speed (Kbps) | Average Upload Speed (Kbps) | |
Telkom | 1808 | 257 |
MTN | 1396 | 441 |
Vodacom | 1233 | 311 |
Average | 1479 | 336 |
Verizon | 951 | 426 |
AT&T | 812 | 660 |
Sprint | 808 | 377 |
Average | 857 | 488 |