| Updated Tue, June 13th 2017 at 09:00 GMT +3Kenya has won praise for having the fastest mobile Internet speeds in Africa. The 2017 edition of State of the Internet Report indicates that Kenya currently leads on the continent with Internet speeds averaging 12.2Mbps for the first quarter of this year. This has catapulted the county ahead of its sub-Saharan Africa peers, including South Africa (6.7Mbps), Morocco (5.2Mbps) and Nigeria (3.9Mbps). Kenya has further been ranked ahead of several developed countries, including Canada, the US and Sweden in terms of mobile Internet connectivity, with the country averaging 13.7 Mbps. These gains are, however, eroded by the high cost of data with the Alliance for Affordable Internet indicating that Kenya lags behind countries like Mauritius, Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco in terms of Internet affordability.

Source: Standard Digital June 13, 2017 06:00 UTC