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Africa's mobile internet speed remains far below the global average. The economic impact is huge

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Outages are contributing to Africa’s low internet speeds. Image: Stefan Heunis/AFP

Faustine Ngila
East Africa correspondent, Quartz
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A chart showing mobile internet speeds in Africa, Q2 2022
MTN and Vodacom South Africa have download speeds over 45Mb/s Image: Quartz

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