Safaricom Beats Airtel on Every Mobile Internet Metric in Kenya, nPerf’s 2026 Report Says
Safaricom's score of 48,015 nPoints is almost 18,000 ahead of Airtel. The gap on 4G downloads is now more than two to one...
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Safaricom has outperformed Airtel across all mobile internet performance metrics in Kenya for the first time, according to nPerf's 2026 report.
- Safaricom achieved an overall nPerf score of 48,015 points, significantly higher than Airtel's 30,156 points.
- The report, covering April 2025 to March 2026, highlighted Safaricom's significantly faster average download speeds of 30.55 Mb/s compared to Airtel's 13.20 Mb/s.
- This marks a historic win for Safaricom, occurring in the first cycle where both operators qualified for benchmarking against each other.
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