SA’s fastest broadband speeds

Many South African consumers are starting to enjoy broadband speeds in excess of 50Mbps, with Telkom and Vodacom recording speeds higher than 60Mbps on their commercial LTE networks.

According to the latest MyBroadband Speed Test results, Telkom recorded the highest residential broadband speed at 71.6Mbps, with Vodacom coming in at 61.5Mbps.

The top 10 broadband speed test results include three Telkom LTE results and seven Vodacom LTE results.

This is the first time Vodacom features prominently in the top 10 broadband speed test results, which is thanks to Vodacom’s LTE network upgrades.

Vodacom is aggressively growing its LTE footprint, and is also replacing its current 2 x 5MHz LTE spectrum with 2 x 10MHz. This makes far higher peak LTE speeds possible.

The following table provides an overview of the top 10 speed tests performed on the MyBroadband platform over the last month.

Top 10 broadband speed tests
Rank	ISP	Service	Download Speed	Upload Speed
1	Telkom	Telkom LTE	71.6Mbps	8.36Mbps
2	Telkom	Telkom LTE	62.55Mbps	8.12Mbps
3	Vodacom	Vodacom LTE	61.46Mbps	8.21Mbps
4	Vodacom	Vodacom LTE	60.99Mbps	14.84Mbps
5	Telkom	Telkom LTE	59.51Mbps	6.53Mbps
6	Vodacom	Vodacom LTE	59.04Mbps	9.22Mbps
7	Vodacom	Vodacom LTE	57.77Mbps	9.39Mbps
8	Vodacom	Vodacom LTE	57.44Mbps	8.66Mbps
9	Vodacom	Vodacom LTE	57.34Mbps	8.39Mbps
10	Vodacom	Vodacom LTE	57.05Mbps	9.45Mbps

Peak broadband speed by service

The following table provides the peak broadband speed recorded by service provider.

Peak broadband speed by provider
Service	ISP	Download speed (kbps)	Upload speed (kbps)
Telkom LTE	Telkom	71,603	8,357
Vodacom LTE	Vodacom	61,462	8,211
VDSL 40Mbps	Afrihost	38,390	2,780
MTN LTE	MTN	38,175	2,669
VDSL 20Mbps	Internet Solutions	19,722	691
Neotel Fibre	Neotel	19,118	10,519
Cell C 3G	Cell C	12,589	1,629
ADSL 10Mbps	Vox Telecom	9,785	862
Neotel LTE	Neotel	5,025	5,933
Neotel CDMA	Neotel	2,280	512
iBurst Wireless	iBurst	1,969	474