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UAE Telcos Offer the Highest Mobile Network Speeds in the World

May 4, 2021
2 min read
Author: Editorial Team

With a download speed of 178.52 Mbps in March, the country overtook South Korea and Qatar in the mobile broad speedtest. The UAE also overtook both countries in January and February, with download speeds of 183.03 Mbps and 177.10 Mbps, respectively. 

The Speed Test Global index, which assesses over 135 countries, compares internet speed data from around the world on a monthly basis. Data for the index comes from the hundreds of millions of tests taken by real people using the speed test every month.

Etisalat, which scored the top spot in Ookla’s Speedtest Awards recently, enables the country’s top ranking.

Mobile network speed is a major contributing factor to the well-being, economic wealth and social prosperity of a nation. This achievement has a lot of favourable implications for a enabling environment for future aspirations, country’s ICT agenda, productivity of businesses, amongst others. 

This significant achievement adds one more feather to the UAE’s cap, and comes at an opportune time with the recent declaration of 2021 as “Year of the 50th” as the nation celebrates its milestone Golden Jubilee. 

Etisalat is proud to contribute to the UAE ranking first in terms of mobile network speed. This is yet another milestone achievement for the UAE, the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority as well as Etisalat’s testament to its relentless efforts towards its strategy and vision to ‘Drive the digital future to empower societies’. As the country’s leading mobile operator and world’s fastest mobile network, Etisalat is uplifting the national performance, enabling the ICT aspirations of the country’s leadership.

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