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Market Analysis
Fastest Providers
Speedtest Intelligence® reveals Ooredoo was the fastest mobile operator among top providers in Tunisia in Q3-Q4 2020 with a Speed Score™ of 39.05 on modern chipsets.
39.05 Ooredoo | ||||
33.25 Tunisie Telecom | ||||
26.13 Orange | ||||
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Latency
Calculating mean latency for top mobile providers in Tunisia during Q3-Q4 2020, Ooredoo had the lowest latency at 25 ms.
25 Ooredoo | ||||
28 Orange | ||||
29 Tunisie Telecom |
4G Availablity
Examining the percentage of an operator’s known locations where a device has access to 4G LTE service, we found that Tunisie Telecom had the best 4G Availability in Tunisia during Q3-Q4 2020 at 79.7%.
79.7% Tunisie Telecom | ||||||||
77.8% Ooredoo | ||||||||
72.8% Orange |
Device Information
An analysis of performance on some of the fastest phones in Tunisia demonstrated the iPhone 11 Pro showed the fastest mean download speed during Q3-Q4 2020 with 46.89 Mbps.
Device Name | Manufacturer | Mean Download Mbps | Mean Upload Mbps | Mean Latency ms |
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iPhone 11 Pro | Apple | 46.89 | 17.71 | 27 |
iPhone 11 Pro Max | Apple | 45.02 | 16.85 | 27 |
Galaxy S9 | Samsung | 43.77 | 16.99 | 24 |
iPhone Xs Max | Apple | 42.80 | 16.23 | 34 |
iPhone Xs | Apple | 42.52 | 14.99 | 29 |
Manufacturer Information
We examined combined performance by major cell phone manufacturers and found that devices from Apple had the fastest mean download speed in Tunisia during Q3-Q4 2020 at 35.86 Mbps.
Manufacturer | Mean Download Mbps | Mean Upload Mbps | Mean Latency ms |
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Apple | 35.86 | 15.06 | 33 |
Samsung | 30.67 | 14.52 | 25 |
Xiaomi | 27.76 | 13.49 | 26 |
Huawei | 23.86 | 12.59 | 25 |
Oppo | 23.02 | 17.22 | 24 |
Chipset Information
Looking at five of the fastest chipsets in Tunisia, we found that XMM 7660 had the fastest mean download speed during Q3-Q4 2020 at 43.64 Mbps.
Chipset | Manufacturer | Mean Download Mbps | Mean Upload Mbps | Mean Latency ms |
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XMM 7660 | Intel | 43.64 | 17.60 | 27 |
Exynos 9825 | Samsung | 43.59 | 15.34 | 20 |
Kirin 980 | Hisilicon | 43.42 | 15.70 | 22 |
Exynos 990 | Samsung | 43.20 | 17.37 | 23 |
Snapdragon 855 | Qualcomm | 41.38 | 18.40 | 25 |
City Speeds
Gabes showed the fastest mean mobile download speed among Tunisia’s most populous cities during Q3-Q4 2020 at 32.21 Mbps.
Rank | City | Mean Download Mbps | Mean Upload Mbps | Latency |
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1 | Gabes | 32.21 | 17.05 | 27 |
2 | Tunis | 31.32 | 16.22 | 24 |
3 | Kairouan | 30.49 | 15.02 | 28 |
4 | Sfax | 29.78 | 15.19 | 29 |
5 | Sousse | 27.20 | 14.37 | 26 |
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