5 things revealed in open signal’s state of canada’s mobile networks report
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5 things revealed in OpenSignal’s State of Canada’s Mobile Networks report
According to OpenSignal, Canada is becoming
a land where 4G networks are a ubiquitous part
of our digital lives. The wireless coverage
mapping company’s recent report, State of Mobile Networks: Canada (January 2016) took
the results from more than 15,600 Canadian
OpenSignal users, and examined the
performance of Canada’s Big 3 nationwide
operators over a three month period between
September and November of last year.
4G network performance is consistent among major carriers
According to the OpenSignal report, Canada’s Big 3 — Telus, Bell and Rogers — rank pretty much the same when
it comes to 4G network performance.
One possible reason for this, the report notes, is due to network-sharing agreements — Telus and Bell share
towers and infrastructure across Canada, while Rogers has struck similar deals with many regional operators like
Videotron in Quebec and MTS in Manitoba.
Carriers are focused on low latency while they gear up for voice-over-LTE
Major carriers in
Canada are currently
working on improving
their networks for
voice-over-LTE,
according to the
report.
Canada’s regional network providers are delivering strong performance overall
According to OpenSignal, regional providers such as
Videotron and SaskTel delivered strong network
performance compared to the major carriers. While the
report is careful not to make direct comparisons, it noted
that Videotron and SaskTel both averaged LTE speeds greater than 27Mbps in their respective
provinces. Videotron in particular, scored high for its 4G coverage in Quebec, connecting its
customers to an LTE signal 78 per cent of the time.
High-availability networks are generally consistent across the country
Canada has a vast, spread out population but the network
experience is typically the same, according to the report,
whether you are in Yellowknife, Vancouver, Halifax or Toronto.
Access to a 4G signal in Canada is an easy thing to do most
of the time, the report revealed, noting that Rogers in
particular won this category hands down, supplying an LTE
connection 80 per cent of the time.
Network speeds are evenly matched among Canada’s Big 3
OpenSignal also measured the
average download speed on each
network on 3G connections.
Tracked over a period of three
months in 2015 — September,
October, and November — it
reveals that Canada’s Big 3 are
evenly matched: Bell ranked first at 3.97 Mbps, followed by Rogers (3.12Mbps) and Telus (3.36Mbps) When it
comes to the network progress of Canada’s three major operators, Canada currently has some of the highest
performing networks in the world and they only seem to be improving, the report concluded.