Algiers now has North Africa's fastest home internet

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Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps, fixed-network quarterly tile files (Apache Parquet, s3://ookla-open-data; documentation github.com/teamookla/ookla-open-data). Platform-reported, crowdsourced Speedtest app results with GPS-quality location only; not an official statistic, and people who test are not a random sample of households. Read from the progrss vault (table city_ookla), which loads Ookla's own quarterly files. Checked: the four 2019 and the four latest quarterly files (2025 Q4, 2026 Q1–Q3) are listed in Ookla's public bucket s3://ookla-open-data, and the vault's file keys match them; two city-quarters were recomputed straight from Ookla's parquet files and match the vault exactly (Nouakchott mobile 2026 Q3: 458 tiles, 3,466 tests, 122.78 Mbps; Caracas fixed 2019 Q1: 940 tiles, 42,348 tests, 4.25 Mbps). Ookla defines avg_d_kbps as the average download speed of all tests in the tile; progrss weights tiles by their tests, so each figure is the mean of all tests within 25 km. Method (progrss calculation, same for all four plates in this set): a city is every zoom-16 tile (about 610 m) whose centre lies within 25 km of the city point; each period value is the tests-weighted mean of avg_d_kbps over all tiles and all four quarters of the period ('2019' = Q1–Q4 2019; 'latest four quarters' = Q4 2025–Q3 2026). These are means of tests, not the medians Ookla publishes in its Speedtest Global Index, so they will not match that index. Chart values, 2019 → latest, Mbps (tests): Algiers 4.40 (85,951) → 197.13 (392,148), quarters 4.3, 4.7, 4.8, 4.1 → 181.2, 196.9, 200.5, 222.0, a steady rise (6.3 in 2020 Q4, 15.5 in 2022 Q4, 31.8 in 2023 Q4, 94.9 in 2024 Q4); Constantine 4.27 → 190.99; Oran 4.34 → 172.01; Rabat 17.28 → 85.52; Casablanca 16.60 → 82.89; Khartoum 7.33 → 68.13 (only 2,479 tests in the latest four quarters, during Sudan's war); Cairo 11.87 → 55.69; Alexandria 11.96 → 53.75; Tunis 8.98 → 29.51; Benghazi 9.62 → 24.37; Tripoli 8.73 → 21.11. 'North Africa' = the UN's Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia). 'Fastest' = highest latest value of the 37 cities in those countries in the vault's city registry (next: Constantine 191.0); Algiers is also the highest of 150 African cities with tests in all eight quarters. 'Six capitals' 2019: Algiers 4.40, Khartoum 7.33, Tripoli 8.73, Tunis 8.98, Cairo 11.87, Rabat 17.28. Derived by progrss: 197.13 ÷ 4.40 = 44.8×; ÷ Rabat 85.52 = 2.3×; ÷ Cairo 55.69 = 3.5×; median multiplier of 69 MENA cities with tests in all eight quarters = 4.95×; top five multipliers Algiers 44.8, Constantine 44.7, Blida 44.0, Oran 39.7, Annaba 37.5. Gulf context: Dubai 348.2, Doha 378.4 Mbps. Iranian cities are left out of the MENA counts: Ookla's 2026 files hold no tests for them. Takeaway 3's link to a national rollout is an interpretation. Attribution: Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps, accessed from https://registry.opendata.aws/speedtest-global-performance. Based on progrss analysis of Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps for Q1 2019–Q3 2026. Ookla trademarks used under license and reprinted with permission. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, non-commercial only: allowed on plates, never in a paid pack, licence or data product.