A newly published report has ranked Airtel Nigeria, a leading mobile telecommunications company, as Nigeria\u2019s best in broadband coverage speed, following a nationwide broadband assessment by Umlaut.
Airtel confirmed this development in a statement it issued in Lagos.
Umlaut is an international company full-service cross-industry, end-to-end that offers advisory and fulfilment services to clients globally.
Chief Executive Officer, Umlaut Telecommunications, Hakan Ekmen, said that based on their assessment, Airtel achieved the best-rated broadband coverage and user download speed among other mobile network operators in the country.
\u201cIn our nationwide assessment, 82.8 per cent of the urban built-up areas and 83.9 per cent of the population areas were tested.
\u201cAn extensive analysis revealed that 263,000 users contributed 707.4-million samples in 24 weeks from October 2020 until early April 2021.
\u201cWe concluded that Airtel Nigeria is Best in the Tests, achieving the highest Umlaut score with 697 points\u201d, Ekmen said
\u201cAirtel scored the highest with 697 points, while MTN emerged second with 663 points, 9mobile with 591 and Glo with 486 points.
\u201cThe tests were carried out with Umlaut\u2019s crowdsourcing methodology, which was used to evaluate the mobile networks in Nigeria\u201d, he added.
Ekmen noted that umlaut\u2019s sophisticated methodology enabled the results to be compared across network operators globally, adding that the transparency it provided not only boosted network quality and performance, but also improved experience for every customer.
He commended Airtel for emerging the best-rated, citing this remarkable feat as a positive step towards attaining digital equality in Africa.
However, Ekmen added that while the results in Nigeria were quite impressive, there was still room for improvement in global comparison.
The competition in Nigeria\u2019s telecoms landscape was working favourably for consumers in the country, he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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