SMS & Voice APIs · reliability comparison
Africa's Talking vs Bandwidth: which is more reliable? (2026)
Africa's Talking is more reliable than Bandwidth, scoring 78.7 vs 33.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Africa's Talking reported 5 incidents and Bandwidth reported 67, with effective uptime of 99.80% and 97.18% respectively. Bandwidth resolves incidents faster on average (5h 38m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
VS
| Metric | Africa's Talking | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 78.7 | 33.7 |
| Rank (SMS & voice APIs) | #5 | #10 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.80% | 97.18% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 67 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 14 |
| Avg time to resolve | 6h 12m | 5h 38m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Africa's Talking and Bandwidth differ
- Bandwidth reported 13.4× as many incidents as Africa's Talking over the last 90 days (67 vs 5).
- Bandwidth had 14 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for Africa's Talking.
- Bandwidth fixes problems faster: 5h 38m on average, against 6h 12m for Africa's Talking.
- Africa's Talking's longest outage on record lasted 7h 2m (Feb 17, 2026); Bandwidth's lasted 15h 12m (Oct 20, 2026).
90-day uptime
Africa's Talking
Bandwidth
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Africa's Talking incidents
- Partial outageSep 24, 2026 · resolved in 25m
Affected: Bulk, Airtime, USSD
- Degraded performanceSep 13, 2026 · resolved in 23h 21m
Affected: Voice
- Partial outageSep 4, 2026 · resolved in 24m
Affected: Bulk, Airtime, USSD
- Partial outageAug 27, 2026 · resolved in 40m
Outage on Outgoing SMS Requests
Affected: Bulk
- InformationalAug 7, 2026 · resolved in 7h 56m
Voice Service Down Time in Tanzania
Affected: Voice
- InformationalJun 27, 2026 · resolved in 38d 3h
Affected: Voice
Recent Bandwidth incidents
- Partial outageOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 2h 33m
Number Portability Checker Incidentofficial update ↗
Affected: Number Porting
- MaintenanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 5h
- MaintenanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 4h
- InformationalOct 28, 2026 · resolved in <1m
- MaintenanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 4h
- MaintenanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 3h 59m
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- Telesign · #3 · 99.91% uptime
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