Egypt had the fastest internet among African countries last month
Egypt climbed eight spots in Speedtest’s January Monthly Global Index of mobile internet speed. Median download speeds of 19.34 megabits per second (Mbps) put us 88th out of 140 countries.
We slipped two spots in fixed broadband speed, recording median speeds of 35.67 Mbps to rank 86th out of 179 countries in January. Despite the small drop in the ranking, Egypt has the highest broadband speed across Africa, a cabinet statement noted.
The demand for high-speed internet is on the rise: The number of Egyptians paying for high-speed home internet is on the up and up, rising 15% y-o-y to nearly 10 mn by November 2021, while mobile broadband subscribers increased by around 19% to 65.1 mn, according to Capmas (pdf). The government has been working on replacing our traditional copper based internet cables with a more exhaustive high-speed fiber optic network to increase internet speeds.