Following a nationwide broadband assessment by Umlaut Telecommunications, Airtel Nigeria has emerged ‘Nigeria’s best in broadband coverage speed,’ beating MTN to second place.
Airtel scored the highest with 697 points, while MTN emerged second with 663 points, 9mobile with 591 and Glo with 486 points.
The tests were carried out with Umlaut’s crowdsourcing methodology, which was used to evaluate the mobile networks in Nigeria.
The Chief Executive Officer of Umlaut, Hakan Ekmen, said Airtel achieved the best-rated broadband coverage and user download speed among other mobile network operators in the country.
“In our nationwide assessment, 82.8 per cent of the urban built-up areas and 83.9 per cent of the population areas were tested.
“An extensive analysis revealed that 263,000 users contributed 707.4 million samples in 24 weeks from October 2020 until early April 2021,” Ekmen said.
He added that his organisation “concluded that Airtel Nigeria is best in the tests, achieving the highest Umlaut score with 697 points.”
He noted that Umlaut’s sophisticated methodology enabled the results to be compared across network operators globally.
The telecom boss also explained that the transparency of its methodology not only boosted network quality and performance, but also improved experience for every customer.
Stressing that the results were quite impressive, Ekmen however noted there was still room for improvement in global comparison.
Umlaut is an international company full-service cross-industry, end-to-end that offers advisory and fulfilment services to clients globally.
