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Africa’s Mobile Network Champions

SpeedChecker, the mobile crowdsourcing experience. The SpeedChecker report in terms of both speed and coverage.
company released a new report on the has been compiled using data from over Each country is represented by their best
performance of mobile networks in the 3 million speed test samples and over (champion) operator in each of the two
African continent during 2021. The Africa’s 700 million coverage samples from over categories and the results are presented
Mobile Network Champions report is 50 countries between January 2021 and in league tables. The results of this report
part of an ongoing commitment from January 2022. The report identifies the make for some interesting reading. For
SpeedChecker to benchmark true user best-performing operators in each country instance, there are only 4 countries that
have champions in both coverage and
speed (Mauritius, Morocco, South Africa
and Tunisia). Read the report to identify
which operators are the champions for
these countries. It may not come as a
surprise to find South Africa second
for speed but can you guess who beat
them to first place with average speeds
of 23.57 Mb/s and where they stand
in the coverage table? The full report
including data collection & measurement
methodology can be found here: https://
www.speedcheckercdn.com/pdfs/africa-
mobile-network-champions-award.pdf

stc Bahrain Signs MoU with Diyar Al Muharraq

Developer to Build 13 Telecom Towers

Diyar Al Muharraq, one of the largest real abler, to construct and operate additional tion Regulatory Authority to rectify and
estate development companies in the telecommunication towers, significantly reduce the number of telecommunication
Kingdom of Bahrain, announced that it has improving network connection and in- towers. These sites will be shared by all
signed a Memorandum of Understanding ternet services in these areas. Following telecommunication companies operating
with stc Bahrain, a world-class digital en- the plan issued by the Telecommunica- in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Following the
completion of the project, the masterplan
will include a total of 13 operating towers.
Commenting on the occasion, Eng. Nezar
Banabeela, Chief Executive Officer of stc
Bahrain, said: “At stc Bahrain, we contin-
uously invest in Bahrain’s telecommuni-
cations infrastructure by providing cover-
age to various locations in order to serve
a larger segment of customers. Due to the
increase in the number of interested cus-
tomers, we aim to offer the best services
to meet their daily needs and stay closer
to them. We are also working on support-
ing the national telecommunications plan
and strengthening our presence as a lead-
ing telecommunications company across
new areas in Bahrain with the aim to cover
more locations across the Kingdom.”

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