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Connectivity siting for Nigeria · Speedtest by Ookla, mobile, Q4 2024

Every square kilometre of Nigeria is sorted by what it needs. New sites go where rural people have no evidence of broadband, hosted at clinics and schools that already stand there.

Sites

Priority

Hosts

–people reached

in rural gaps (no test within 2 km), within 5 km of a new site

Poorer 40%: –
Gap closed: –
At clinics: –
At schools: –

Most peoplePoorest first

In the order chosen · new people within 5 km

How the map was made

Each populated 1 km cell is checked against the nearest Ookla mobile speed test from October to December 2024. A test within 2 km at the National Broadband Plan's speed (25 Mbps in towns, 10 Mbps in rural areas) means the cell is served. Slower tests nearby mean the signal is there but too slow. A town with no test nearby needs measuring first. A rural area with no test nearby is a rural gap: no evidence of broadband, which is not proof of no signal.
For rural gaps only, a maximal covering search adds clinics and schools (public and private, every level) one at a time, each time choosing the host that reaches the most people not yet reached within 5 km, the low end of the 5 to 15 km range ITU gives for mobile cells. Greedy selection is guaranteed to reach at least 63% of the best possible coverage.
"Poorest first" counts only people in the poorer 40% by Meta's Relative Wealth Index when choosing sites.

What to keep in mind

Data and credits

Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps, mobile, Q4 2024 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Meta High Resolution Population Density Maps 2020 (CC BY); Meta Relative Wealth Index, Chi et al. 2022 (CC BY-NC 4.0)
GHSL GHS-SMOD R2023A, Schiavina et al. 2023 (CC BY 4.0)
GRID3 NGA Health Facilities v3.0 and v2.0 and Education Facilities 2020 (CC BY); OCHA boundaries (CC BY-IGO)
Nigerian National Broadband Plan 2020–2025: speed targets pp. 36 and 38, health-centre target p. 40
Site reach: ITU (2022) Guide for procuring last-mile connectivity data networks, Table 4 (mobile cellular, 5 to 15 km)
Satellite layer: EOxCloudless 2023 by EOX IT Services GmbH, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2023 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Cell positions for the coverage check: OpenCelliD 2024, opencellid.org (CC BY-SA 4.0), via the UN Smart Maps Group copy on Source Cooperative

Based on Oluwasola Oyinloye's analysis of Speedtest® by Ookla® Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps for Q4 2024, supplied by DSN and matched to the release on AWS on 20 October 2026. Ookla trademarks used under license and reprinted with permission. Maps and tables are shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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