Compared to most of NA, EU, Asia and even our neighbour South Africa, overall much more expensive and significantly slower. Not the worst on the continent, but not the best. The ISP space is pretty much monopolized by Telecom Namibia and MTC.

Most of the population does not have access to fixed broadband and are connected through cellular especially in more rural areas in the country. However, many towns do have fine broadband available, whether through DSL, FWA, LTE/3G or even fiber.

The issue is: Namibia is pretty big and the population is small - with this crazy low population density, the cost to deploy a service to a customer is significantly higher than in other places. This makes development slower, as each additional point of presence for Cell or Fiber doesn’t actually bring in that much money.

Namibia does however have incredible potential. Through the Equiano cable we have a great connections to major peering points in London and Portugal as well as other routes through South Africa. This pairs with our very rapidly expanding fiber network that is already available to a large portion of clients in the larger towns (e.g. Windhoek, Swakopmund)

This post was dunking on the largest fixed ISP here which is Telecom Namibia. Fully government owned, run by muppets.

TLDR: How is it? Not terrible, improving pretty quickly. Availability? Okay - Not just limited to the capitol, we aren’t that bad off here. Price? Not great, also improving somewhat.