{"id":183100,"date":"2016-10-20T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=183100"},"modified":"2016-10-20T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:12:11","slug":"how-vodacom-and-mtn-upped-their-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/183100-how-vodacom-and-mtn-upped-their-game.html","title":{"rendered":"How Vodacom and MTN upped their game"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband recently conducted its latest War Drive, measuring the performance of the major mobile networks’ data services.<\/p>\n

We tested the download and upload speeds of the networks at main business and residential areas around Gauteng.<\/p>\n

Four Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones were used for the tests,\u00a0along with the Ookla speed test app \u2013 downloaded from the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n

Tests were conducted across the four networks simultaneously, in both stationary and moving tests.<\/p>\n

War Drive results<\/h3>\n

Vodacom took first place in both the stationary<\/strong><\/a> and drive tests<\/strong><\/a>, achieving the highest average download speed in both cases.<\/p>\n

Vodacom also took the most “top 10” spots for fastest individual download speeds in both sets of tests.<\/p>\n

The tables below show how the networks have improved their performance compared to the previous War Drive tests.<\/p>\n

Stationary Tests<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
MyBroadband War Drive<\/th>\n\n
Download Speed Average<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Stationary<\/td>\n2016 (Oct)<\/td>\n2016 (March)<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/strong><\/td>\n34.8Mbps<\/td>\n22.3Mbps<\/td>\n11.8Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/strong><\/td>\n29.0Mbps<\/td>\n10.0Mbps<\/td>\n10.5Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell<\/strong> C<\/strong><\/td>\n27.6Mbps<\/td>\n19.0Mbps<\/td>\n4.1Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom<\/strong><\/td>\n24.4Mbps<\/td>\n18.0Mbps<\/td>\n20.4Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Moving Tests<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
MyBroadband War Drive<\/th>\n\n
Download Speed Average<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Driving<\/td>\n2016 (Oct)<\/td>\n2016 (March)<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/strong><\/td>\n29.0Mbps<\/td>\n14.8Mbps<\/td>\n9.0Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/strong><\/td>\n24.6Mbps<\/td>\n6.1Mbps<\/td>\n2.7Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Cell<\/strong> C<\/strong><\/td>\n23.4Mbps<\/td>\n17.0Mbps<\/td>\n2.9Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom<\/strong><\/td>\n12.8Mbps<\/td>\n15.9Mbps<\/td>\n10.5Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read:\u00a0Vodacom is bad, but MTN is the worst: Customers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We take a look at how the major mobile networks have improved their performance compared to our previous War Drive tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35,42,109,41,35955],"class_list":["post-183100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom","tag-war-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183454,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183100\/revisions\/183454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}