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Tech - News - Mobile Tech Updated: August 07, 2021

Port Harcourt Beats Lagos To Fastest Internet Speed In Nigeria

By Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe
August 07, 2021
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Port-Harcourt has been ranked as the city with the fastest internet speed in Nigeria, ahead of Lagos, Abuja and Kano.

This was seen in  Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index June report. Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index aggregates network speed tests from more than 10,000 high-performance servers in over 190 countries.

Port-Harcourt, which is home to Nigeria’s second-largest port, has a download speed of 26.34 megabytes per second (Mbps), notably higher than the 24.15Mbps recorded in Lagos, Africa’s top startup city.

The report, which highlighted the fastest mean mobile download speed among Nigeria’s most populous cities during the second of the year also showed that four out of five cities had download speeds of over 20Mbps.

Kano is second on the chart with 24.75Mbps while Ibadan stood at fourth with 20.66Mbps. Benin City has the lowest recording of 16.73Mbps during the period.

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A breakdown of Internet speed in Nigeria shows that while the download speed for mobile is 22.91Mbps the upload speed is even lower at just 9.68 Mbps.

For fixed broadband, the download speed is pegged at 17.05Mbps while the upload speed is 15.28Mbps. This report shows that while mobile internet may have a better download speed, fixed broadband is more dependable.

In terms of speed for individual telecoms providers, the speed test report revealed Airtel was the fastest mobile operator among top providers in Nigeria in Q2 2021 with a Speed Score of 28.82 on modern chipsets.

Nigeria’s biggest mobile operator, MTN comes in at second with a speed score of 25.78. Globacom and 9mobile have the worst speed with a speed score of 10.35 and 9.49 respectively. This is less than half the speed score of Airtel and MTN.

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However, MTN leads in terms of consistency with a score of 83.4%. This means that about 83% of results were found showing at least a 5 Mbps minimum download speed and 1 Mbps minimum upload speed.

Airtel follows closely with a score of 82.5% while Globacom and 9mobile scored 64.1% and 46.4% respectively.

Surprisingly, 9Mobile ranked best for latency at 44 ms during the second quarter. MTN and Airtel had the least with 48 ms. Network latency refers to the time required for a packet of data to travel round trip between two points.

Globally, only nine African countries are ranked among the top 100, and Nigeria is one of them, despite dropping one spot to 99th. South Africa ranks as number one in Africa, followed by Morocco and Tunisia. Ghana and Zimbabwe have Africa’s slowest Internet speed with 12.69Mbps and 13.23Mbps respectively.

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Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

A seasoned business content writer, financial markets analyst, and tech enthusiast.

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