{"id":81402,"date":"2018-05-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/81402\/mtn-the-best-performing-network\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T07:09:36","slug":"mtn-the-best-performing-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/05\/28\/mtn-the-best-performing-network\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN the best performing network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyBroadband has launched their mobile testing network project together with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afristay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afristay<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung<\/a>. They have traveled along the N4 and <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/259877-mobile-network-coverage-tests-emalahleni-to-waterval-boven.html\" target=\"_blank\">tested the mobile network quality<\/a> in in various towns, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middelburg,_Mpumalanga\" target=\"_blank\">Middelburg<\/a>\u00a0and neighbouring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emalahleni.gov.za\/online2\/\" target=\"_blank\">eMalahleni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Vermeulen wrote that although <a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.mtn.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTN<\/a> was the best network in Middelburg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vodacom.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vodacom <\/a>scored highest for the best overall network with good performances in both towns.<\/p>\n<p>The tests were conducted by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/speedtest.mybroadband.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Broadband Speed Test App<\/a> on a Samsung Galaxy S9 phone. A network quality score out of ten was given. Download speed, upload speed and latency (the delay before data transfer begins following the instruction for its transfer) were taken into account during the scoring process.<\/p>\n<h3>In Middelburg network scores are as follows:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MTN scored 9,69 out of 10,<\/li>\n<li>Vodacom followed with 8,69,<\/li>\n<li>Telkom with 6,11,<\/li>\n<li>and Cell C with 1,75.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In eMalahleni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cellc.co.za\/cellc\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Cell C<\/a> was the top performing network with 8,95 out of 10, Vodacom came second with 8,92, MTN third with 8,5 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telkom.co.za\/today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Telkom<\/a>\u00a0last with a score of 6,43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN is currently the best performing network in Middelburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":81436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[11566,11567,2996,21966,1397,11568,11569,11570],"class_list":["post-81402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-best-network-in-middelburg","tag-best-performing-network","tag-emalahleni","tag-middelburg","tag-mtn","tag-my-broadband","tag-samsung-galaxy","tag-samsung-s9"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["best network in middelburg","best performing network","emalahleni","middelburg","MTN","my broadband","samsung galaxy","samsung s9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}