The Samsung Galaxy S25 outperformed other smartphones in 5G performance in South Africa, with an average download speed of 336 Mbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was revealed in the Q1 2026 MyBroadband Insights research report, which tracks the performance of fixed and mobile broadband networks in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this report, MyBroadband Insights used data collected through the MyBroadband Android and iOS speed test apps and its web-based platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between 1 January 2026 and 31 March 2026, there were over 320,000 performance tests performed on the Android and iOS Speed Test apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It showed that the average mobile download speed in South Africa in Q1 2026 was 80 Mbps, and the average upload speed was 19 Mbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of the analysis, MyBroadband Insights also compared average speeds across different smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Samsung Galaxy S25 achieved the highest average 5G speed at 336 Mbps, with a peak speed of 966 Mbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Honor 200 ranked second with an average 5G download speed of 329 Mbps, and the Honor X9a 5G ranked third with 314 Mbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is interesting that the top Android devices achieved significantly higher 5G speeds than the latest iPhone models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The top iPhone 5G performance was 206 Mbps, well below the tenth-ranked Android device, the Samsung Galaxy S22+, at 252 Mbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The peak 5G speeds of the latest iPhones in South Africa were also much lower than those of Android smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The table below shows the smartphones which achieved the highest average 5G performance in South Africa over the last three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Samsung Galaxy S25 outperformed other smartphones in 5G performance in South Africa, with an average download speed of 336 Mbps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":639106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[96083,104379,60107,81438],"class_list":["post-639105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-honor-200","tag-honor-x9a-5g","tag-mybroadband-insights","tag-samsung-galaxy-s25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639105"}],"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=639105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639337,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639105\/revisions\/639337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Device<\/th> Average Download Speed<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Samsung Galaxy S25<\/td> 336 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> Honor 200<\/td> 329 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> Honor X9a 5G<\/td> 314 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> Honor 200 Pro<\/td> 287 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> HONOR 400<\/td> 283 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> Samsung Galaxy S25 FE<\/td> 270 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> Samsung Galaxy S24 FE<\/td> 270 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> Samsung Galaxy S24+<\/td> 261 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G<\/td> 258 Mbps<\/td><\/tr> Samsung Galaxy S22+<\/td> 252 Mbps<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"