Airtel Nigeria, has been rated the fastest network provider in Nigeria according to Crowdsourcing firm, SpeedChecker.
In its 2021 report for Africa’s Mobile Network Champions, SpeedChecker said Airtel Nigeria recorded an average country mobile download speed of 11.55Mbit/s.
The report, which was released over the weekend ranked countries and mobile network operators in two different categories - fastest mobile network champion and best mobile coverage champion. According to the report, internet speed in Nigeria ranked 16th out of the 46 countries that were examined by the organisation.
SpeedChecker helps mobile operators get a better understanding of their network from the end-user perspective by collecting billions of KPIs directly from mobile devices, analysing RAN data from OSS counters, giving comprehensive reports that show why the quality of network is good or bad, and the tangible steps to improve it.
The report highlights the data point samples collected from 3,436,863 mobile devices, collected between January 2021 and January 2022 from end user devices running Android and iOS systems in different countries across Africa, thus providing a true picture of how the mobile networks are performing on the continent according to download speeds.
While trying to improve its speed across the country through the expansion of its 4G network, Airtel had announced a new data plan that will instantly reward customers with newly activated smartphones with Airtel SIM cards.
Under the new plan which is dubbed ‘Red Data Plan’, Airtel is offering every customer with newly activated smartphones with Airtel SIM cards double the value of the data bundle purchased (between N500 and N5000) for a 3-month period. For instance, a customer who inserts his/her Airtel SIM in a newly purchased smartphone and opts for a 3GB data plan will instantly be rewarded with a 6GB data plan.
Customers are required to send ‘Get’ as an SMS to 141 to activate the Airtel Red Data plan.
Airtel says the Red Data plan has been conceived to empower and offer more Nigerians opportunities to connect with the people, platforms and ideas that will help them become more productive as well empower them to pursue and achieve their dreams.
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