{"id":602749,"date":"2025-07-16T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=602749"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:15:30","slug":"the-best-isp-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/602749-the-best-isp-in-south-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"The best ISP in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The latest research from MyBroadband Insights shows that Afrihost was the best ISP in South Africa, followed by Axxess and NTT DATA in the second quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africans have become increasingly reliant on stable, high-speed internet for work, study, and entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As fibre and LTE connectivity expand across the country, consumer expectations around performance, reliability, and value for money have grown substantially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This research is based on data from the MyBroadband Speedtest apps and web platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MyBroadband Speedtest platform allows users to test fixed and mobile Internet connections and compare results with the promises from their respective service providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MyBroadband Speedtest app is available for <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=eu.vspeed.mybroadband&amp;hl=en_ZA&amp;pli=1\"><strong>Android<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/za\/app\/mybroadband-speed-test\/id1251929921?platform=iphone\"><strong>iOS<\/strong><\/a> devices. Speed tests can also be performed through a web browser on the <a href=\"https:\/\/speedtest.mybroadband.co.za\/\"><strong>MyBroadband Speedtest website<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform measures key performance metrics, including download speed, upload speed, and latency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to these technical indicators, the platform also gathers user ratings of their ISPs, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These ratings are then aggregated and processed, with efforts made to remove outliers, fraudulent results, and ISPs with insufficient data to ensure a fair and accurate ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afrihost had the best average rating in the second quarter of 2025, with a score of 76.29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afrihost has been a consistent top performer, also winning the MyBroadband award for <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/595336-afrihost-receives-2025-mybroadband-award-trophy-for-best-isp-in-south-africa.html\">best ISP in South Africa<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Axxess was not far behind Afrihost at 74.11, while NTT DATA users gave an average rating of 69.18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cell C impressed its fixed data users with the best rating among the mobile network operators at an average score of 65.36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fixed data customers on Vodacom were not as happy, only earning them a rating of 60.45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full rankings are summarised below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>ISP<\/th><th>Rating<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Afrihost<\/td><td>76.29<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Axxess<\/td><td>74.11<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>NTT DATA<\/td><td>69.18<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>RSAWeb<\/td><td>67.10<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vox<\/td><td>66.88<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cell C<\/td><td>65.36<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Webafrica<\/td><td>64.78<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Telkom<\/td><td>63.48<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>MTN<\/td><td>63.42<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rain<\/td><td>62.24<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Supersonic<\/td><td>62.07<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vodacom<\/td><td>60.45<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Liquid Intelligent Technologies<\/td><td>59.89<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost is the best ISP in South Africa for Q2 2025 based on MyBroadband Insights research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341074,"featured_media":602906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1669,1765,84689,1691],"class_list":["post-602749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-afrihost","tag-axxess","tag-best-isp","tag-dimension-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602749"}],"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\/341074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603050,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602749\/revisions\/603050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}