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The report covers satellite operators including SpaceX’s Starlink, Viasat, and Skylogic and reveals that in Africa Starlink, which first berthed on the continent with a Nigerian launch is outpacing its competitors on speed.
The report notes: “Starlink, which first launched on the African continent in Nigeria this past January, is showing intriguing early results. Speedtest Intelligence showed that Starlink in Nigeria had a faster median download speeds than all aggregate fixed broadband providers combined at 63.69 Mbps to 15.60 Mbps during Q2 2023.
Upload speeds were more similar during the same time period with Starlink at 13.72 Mbps and the aggregate of all fixed broadband providers combined at 10.60 Mbps. Starlink did have a marginally higher multi-server latency at 55.88 ms to 50.26 ms during Q2 2023.”
Some high-level takeaways include:
- According to Speedtest Intelligence, Starlink in Nigeria had a faster median download speeds than all aggregate fixed broadband providers combined at 63.69 Mbps to 15.60 Mbps during Q2 2023.
- Upload speeds in Nigeria were more similar with Starlink at 13.72 Mbps and the aggregate of all fixed broadband providers combined at 10.60 Mbps.
- In Rwanda, Starlink recorded a median download at 63.10 Mbps in Q2 2023 compared to the aggregate of all fixed broadband providers combined at 34.55 Mbps; while Starlink had a median upload speed at 6.88 Mbps to 10.05 Mbps for fixed broadband providers.
