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Burkina Faso coverage

3

networks available

Which network you get

CarrierRole5G
Orange Burkina FasoPrimary, used by default4G only
Moov Africa Burkina FasoFailover, used when the primary degrades4G only
Telecel FasoFailover, used when the primary degrades4G only

You do not choose between them. If the network you are on gets congested we move you to the other one automatically, in the middle of your trip, and tell you afterwards.

Your phone
Carrier Acongested, 4 Mbps
Carrier Bclear, 61 Mbps
Moved, without asking you
A single carrier provider cannot make this move. It is the whole reason we buy from more than one.
A single carrier provider cannot make this move.

How we measure

Orbislo devices report connection quality on real traffic, never synthetic speed tests, because a speed test spends your data to tell us something we can measure for free. Reports carry the carrier, the radio type, the throughput and a coarse location of roughly one kilometre. No precise location is ever collected, nothing is published below a sample of 25, and you can switch the whole thing off in one tap.

Real trafficnever a speed test
Coarse locationabout one kilometre
Aggregatednothing under 25 samples
Publishedwith the sample count
A synthetic speed test would spend your data to tell us something we can measure for free.
Measured from real sessions, never from a speed test we ran ourselves.

What happens in Burkina Faso when the network is busy

Congestion is not a fault, it is a Tuesday evening. The question is what your eSIM can do about it, and for most travel eSIMs the answer is nothing: one wholesale agreement per country, one network, and no way out except buying a second eSIM from somebody else while standing in the street.

Here, Orbislo traffic runs over Orange Burkina Faso, Moov Africa Burkina Faso and Telecel Faso. When the network you are on degrades we move you to another one, mid trip, without you asking, and tell you afterwards rather than interrupting you at the time.

Questions about Burkina Faso

Which network will I be on in Burkina Faso?
Orange Burkina Faso, Moov Africa Burkina Faso or Telecel Faso. Orbislo moves you to whichever is performing better where you are standing, without asking you and without you noticing.
What if I get no signal at all in Burkina Faso?
Open the app and use your free rescue data: 100 MB a month, on every account, in over 200 countries, and it works at a zero balance. It exists for exactly this moment, because needing data in order to buy data is not a situation anybody should be put in. If that cannot find a network either, message us from the app and we will sort it.
Will my phone work in Burkina Faso?
If it supports eSIM and is not carrier locked, yes. We check your exact model before you pay and tell you plainly if it will not work, rather than taking the money and leaving you to find out on arrival.

Coverage nearby

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How Burkina Faso compares across Africa

Regional median
29.5 Mbps
Upstream networks
3, Orange Burkina Faso, Moov Africa Burkina Faso, Telecel Faso
5G
No, LTE only
Cities with their own page
3: Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Banfora

Cities with their own page

Banfora
Bobo Dioulasso Airport, nearest airport BOY, 74 km from Banfora
Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobo Dioulasso Airport, nearest airport BOY, 5 km from Bobo-Dioulasso
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport, nearest airport OUA, 3 km from Ouagadougou