Telkom top in Nelspruit mobile voice network testing
According to the MyBroadband Insights Voice Testing Project, Telkom has the best mobile voice network in Nelspruit.
The project analysed the performance of South Africa’s four major mobile voice networks — Vodacom, Telkom, MTN, and Cell C — and was run in partnership with Keysight distributor Coral-I.
It used the world-renowned testing platform, Keysight Nemo, as well as dedicated originating and terminating stations that ran custom firmware.
Our team then travelled across the country with the originating station and tracked mobile voice network performance across major cities, secondary cities, smaller towns, and major roads.
The terminating station was kept in an area with excellent signal quality for all four networks.
MyBroadband Insights measured key performance indicators like Call Setup Time, Call Setup Success Ratio, Dropped Call Ratio, and Speech Quality Mean Opinion Score (MOS).
This data was then collated using the globally accepted specifications of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
Based on this data, Telkom was the clear victor in Nelspruit, with an overall score of 95.7, and boasted the highest Speech Quality of all networks, with a score of 4.23/5.
Telkom, Vodacom, and Cell C all had 100% Call Setup Success Ratios and 0% Dropped Call Ratios.
MTN had a 100% Call Setup Success Ratio, while Vodacom had the best Call Setup Time of only 1.09 seconds.
Below are the full results for Nelspruit.
Network Operator | Call Setup Time | Call Setup Success Ratio | Dropped Call Ratio | Speech Quality MOS | Overall Score |
Telkom | 2.4s | 100% | 0% | 4.23 | 95.7 |
Vodacom | 1.09s | 100% | 0% | 3.99 | 89.1 |
MTN | 1.47s | 100% | 1.33% | 3.98 | 88.9 |
Cell C | 8.99s | 100% | 0% | 4.21 | 74 |