Dropped calls, terrible download and upload speeds, the frustration with South Africa’s mobile networks only grew during lockdown as we became even more dependent on these networks to operate our businesses and work from home. MyBroadband Insights released the 2020 Mobile Network Quality Report, which shows that MTN has the best mobile network in South Africa. Jan Vermeulen, editor at large at MyBroadBand, spoke to Michael Avery about cellphone network quality, and some of the surprising findings.

Makwe Masilela, CIO of Makwe Fund Managers & Steven Schultz, CEO of Momentum Securities

Warwick Lucas, CIO of Galileo Asset Management & Prof Raymond Parsons, from School of Business and Governance at North West University

Paulo Santo, MD and senior partner, Aurum Restaurant at The Leonardo

Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, senior economist at TIPS; Emily Tyler, an economist at Meridian Economics; Jesse Burton, senior associate at climate change think-tank E3G and a researcher at the University of Cape Town (UCT); Itumeleng Leie , founding director of the Ushiri Group & Mike Ward, director and founder of Creating Sustainable Value

Jeremy Sampson, MD of Brand Finance Africa

Yaseen Salie, GreenCape project manager for the Digital Biogas Cooperation (DiBiCoo) project

Hylton Kallner, new CEO of Discovery Bank

Prof Adrian Puren, head of the Centre for HIV and STIs at NICD

Stefano Marani, CEO of Renergen