These are the fastest neighbourhoods for mobile data in South Africa

Analytico‘s latest mobile speed test report revealed that Centurion, Cape Town, and Randburg suburbs have the highest mobile network download speeds in South Africa.
The firm used 296,277 speed tests from MyBroadband’s mobile speed test apps and website to determine the top ten neighbourhoods that enjoyed the country’s best mobile network speeds in the first quarter of 2024.
The first noteworthy finding was that eight of the top areas were in Gauteng. In addition, download speeds keep on improving quarter to quarter.
Mobile networks have made a substantial recovery after struggling with downtime and connectivity issues due to load-shedding in the past year.
In the latest assessment, the top 10 suburbs all had average download speeds of well over 100Mbps. In early 2023, none of them had speeds in the triple digits.
Irene in Centurion ranked first, with a blistering fast average download speed of 218Mbps and upload speeds averaging 36Mbps.
This is the first time a neighbourhood has achieved an average speed of over 200Mbps in one of these tests.
The second location is Foreshore in Cape Town, which is located alongside the waterfront.
Here, users recorded speed tests with average speeds of 166Mbps and 34Mbps down and up.
Ferndale in Randburg rounds out the top 3 with a download speed of 155Mbps and users uploading data at 32Mbps.
The average latencies in all ten top areas were under 30ms, which is vital for users needing real-time connections for voice-over-IP calls and the like.
The table below shows the top 10 fastest neighbourhoods for mobile network speeds in the third quarter of 2024, as calculated by Analytico.
Neighbourhood | Area | Download Speed (Mbps) | Upload Speed (Mbps) | Latency (ms) |
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Irene | Centurion | 217.68 | 35.65 | 24.22 |
Foreshore | Cape Town | 165.50 | 34.31 | 24.17 |
Ferndale | Randburg | 155.24 | 32.07 | 22.94 |
Bryanston | Sandton | 149.54 | 31.90 | 24.51 |
Table View | Cape Town | 149.44 | 29.88 | 28.30 |
Doringkloof | Centurion | 146.58 | 30.21 | 22.79 |
Lyttelton Manor | Centurion | 144.14 | 32.90 | 29.16 |
Sandown | Sandton | 143.64 | 30.42 | 25.42 |
Northriding | Randburg | 143.04 | 27.49 | 22.29 |
Faerie Glen | Pretoria | 137.79 | 22.26 | 23.35 |