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THE 5G OPPORTUNITY

FEBRUARY 2019

Authors Kevin Fitchard Principal Analyst Francesco Rizzato Senior Technical Analyst Ian Fogg VP Analysis

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How 5G will solve the congestion problems of today's 4G networks

Total Devices

Total Measurements

Data Collection Period

94,071,939 585,738,011,995 Jan 1st – Dec 31st, 2018

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Mobile Network Experience Report The 5G Opportunity

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Key FindingsAcross 77 countries studied, 4G Download

Speeds are between 31.2 Mbps and 5.8 Mbps

faster at the best hour of day compared with

the slowest hour of the day

Congestion on current 4G networks is holding

back speeds highlighting the need for new 5G

capacity to relieve pressure. Opensignal’s* analysis

uncovers that during the optimal time of day —

usually when most users are asleep — networks

are capable of enabling a significantly faster

download experience than during awake hours.

Across the day, 42% of countries experienced

speed variation of two times or more

In the U.S., the best 4G Download Speeds were

1.9 times faster in the late hours of night — when

networks are quieter and most users are offline —

than during the day and evening leisure hours,

when networks most need to offer a great

experience for their users. India's best 4G

Download Speed was 3.9 times faster than the

speed experienced at the slowest time of day.

5G will add new capacities to help with these

wide time-of-day speed variations

5G won't just deliver faster speeds. 5G will

provide a blanket of capacity, built using new high-

bandwidth, high-frequency spectrum bands that

will help mitigate the daily cycle of congestion we

see on today's 4G networks. These 5G services

will support more simultaneous users at very fast

speeds.

Even the fastest 4G countries need 5G to

counter big drops in speeds at busy times

In the fastest two countries in Opensignal’s

analysis, South Korea and Singapore, users

experienced a speed gap of 13 Mbps between

fastest and slowest hours, despite the two highest

average 4G Download Speeds measured of 55.7

Mbps and 54.7 Mbps respectively.

The slowest time of day tends to be in the

evening, but varies between countries

While most countries experience the slowest

speeds in the evening, between 9 p.m. and 11

p.m., there were notable exceptions. For

smartphone users in Singapore and Norway

speeds slowed much earlier at 6 p.m. and in

the U.K. and the Netherlands the peak periods

were even earlier, 5 p.m. and 4 p.m.

respectively, overlapping the working day.

Cities see the greatest speed swings, indicating

daytime congestion 5G can relieve

Users in Paris experienced the greatest range

of 4G Download Speeds, fluctuating between

21.5 Mbps and 51.4 Mbps in a 24-hour period,

followed by Sydney and Santiago. Worryingly,

New York's fastest hour for 4G speed of 40.8

Mbps was in a virtual dead heat with the 40.6

Mbps Seoul’s inhabitants experience at their

slowest hour of the day. But Seoul’s slowest

hour of day is still faster than the fastest hour

of day in Taipei (38.2 Mbps), London (38.3

Mbps) and 21 other cities analyzed.

Tremendous speed volatility is untenable for

future mobile applications

To launch all the most demanding new

applications, such as augmented reality or

autonomous driving, operators and app

developers must be able to break free from

today’s limitations where they are forced to

create services and apps for the worst-case

congestion conditions. The world needs new

5G networks to offer increased capacity, and

more consistent speeds to sustain new

innovations

*As of late February 2019, the correct spelling of our company name is Opensignal. OpenSignal is the correct spelling for our app.


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World 4G speeds vary tremendously across the day

showing the impact of congestion on daytime speeds

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World 4G speeds vary tremendously across the day showing the impact of congestion on daytime speeds Chart 1

The 4G networks we enjoy today are light years beyond the 3G networks

that kicked off the mobile data revolution at the turn of the millennium,

but they have their faults. The biggest among them are inconsistency and

congestion.

Across the hours of the day, Opensignal’s analysis shows the enormous

extent to which 4G speeds drop when most people are awake, using their

smartphones and wanting a great mobile data experience. This fall in

speeds indicates the pressure from millions of simultaneous users with

which operators must cope.

By nature, cellular networks are shared networks. The more users there

are vying for connections, the more a network's capacity gets sliced and

diced among those users, which causes average speeds to fall. That

produces massive inconsistencies in connection speeds throughout the


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course of a day and ultimately can place severe restrictions on the type

of applications and services consumers can access.

Opensignal has looked at those speed disparities in 77 countries across

the world to show how big this problem truly is. We've also explored how

5G networks should be able to provide relief. 5G is usually touted

because of its speed, but more significantly 5G will provide a solid

foundation of capacity that will iron out the wild fluctuations we see in

4G speeds today.

4G is struggling to deliver a consistently good mobile experience 4G networks are very finicky creatures that can offer up different

capabilities depending on their current loads. At peak times of day,

demand for content and mobile capacity are greater, creating congestion

on the network. That causes the average speeds for all users to fall.

Conversely at non-peak times — often in the early hours of the morning

— there are fewer users competing for network resources, allowing

connections to open up, boosting speeds well beyond their normal levels.

Chart 2 provides a snapshot of the wide range of 4G Download Speeds

we see throughout the day in different countries across the globe. For

instance at the top of this chart we find South Korea, which had the

fastest 4G Download Speed of the 77 countries in our analysis. But South

Korea's average download of 47.1 Mbps isn't constant throughout the

day. Depending on the hour, average speed rises as high as 55.7 Mbps or

dips down to 40.8 Mbps. Even though there was a significant variation in

their speeds hour by hour, South Korea and Singapore were the only

countries where users averaged more than 40 Mbps at all times in our

measurements, meaning they were always able to provide fast, if not

consistent, connections.

The most extreme examples of hourly variation in speed were in Europe.

In Switzerland average 4G Download Speed yo-yoed between 29.2 Mbps

and 55.5 Mbps throughout the course of 24 hours in our measurements,

while in Belarus that range was even bigger, seesawing between 7.8

Mbps to 39.1 Mbps.


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Users experience a wide range of download speeds at different hours Chart 2


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As the mobile internet evolves, these fluctuations in speed will become

untenable. Consumers will expect the more consistent experience

promised by 5G's proponents. Future mobile apps and services won't just

demand fast speeds but will need consistent connections.

For instance, let's say a super-HD video or a 360-degree virtual-reality

stream requires a minimum of 25 Mbps to perform optimally. If an

operator has an average 4G Download Speed of 30 Mbps, you might

assume it has plenty of connection power to support that content. But if

in reality download speeds on that network fluctuate from 20 Mbps to

40 Mbps through the course of day — or across different locations — then

we have a situation where users can consume that content only at certain

times. What's worse, the times that content becomes unwatchable are

precisely the peak times when more users want to consume it.

5G will not only provide extremely fast speeds but also a solid bedrock of

capacity, to even out the consistency issues we are seeing with current

4G networks. As part of the 5G era, new high capacity and very high

frequency radio bands will be usable for the first time by mobile

technology, which will increase the networks’ ability to support more

simultaneous users and data at very high speeds.

Even the fastest countries have big swings in speed Across the hours of the day, Opensignal has analyzed the difference

between the time when smartphone users experience the fastest

download speed and the time when speeds are slowest. The difference

between the best and worst speeds indicates the speed a country’s

networks are able to deliver under both the most optimal and least

optimal conditions depending on time of day.

Countries with a wide range likely have greater congestion pressure on

their networks. Those countries with little difference between best and

worst speeds most likely have networks that are lightly loaded.


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Algeria

Cambodia

Belarus

India

Chile

Bahrain

Indonesia

Pakistan

Kazakhstan

Jordan

Philippines

Uruguay

Kuwait

Dominican Republic

Israel

Panama

Ireland

Poland

Guatemala

Malaysia

Tunisia

Peru

Côte d'Ivoire

Bolivia

France

Finland

Russian Federation

Morocco

Turkey

Argentina

Taiwan

Myanmar

Thailand

Switzerland

United States of America

Colombia

Sweden

Italy

Saudi Arabia

Denmark

Austria

United Kingdom

Brazil

Bangladesh

Nigeria

Mexico

Japan

Croatia

Egypt

Ukraine

Romania

Hong Kong

United Arab Emirates

Australia

Ecuador

Portugal

Oman

Sri Lanka

Spain

Costa Rica

Bulgaria

Germany

Hungary

Vietnam

Slovakia

Serbia

Lebanon

New Zealand

Qatar

Netherlands

South Africa

Norway

South Korea

Singapore

Greece

Canada

Czech Republic

4G Download Speed (Mbps)

t imes as fast when experienced at the fastest hour of day

Difference in 4G Download Speed experienced

between the fastest and the slowest hour of the day

Least speed range by

hour of day

Greatest speed range by

hour of day

Difference in 4G Download Speed experienced between the fastest and the slowest hour of the day Chart 3


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Canada, the Czech Republic, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand,

Norway, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa and South Korea all have little

variation in speed despite being at varying stages of 4G development.

This indicates a high degree of consistency in speed across the 4G

networks in these countries regardless of the hour. The Czech Republic

had the most consistent download experience of the 77 countries we

analyzed. 4G Download Speed fell only 3.3 Mbps in the Czech Republic

at the slowest time compared with an average speed of 33 Mbps

experienced by smartphone users.

Today's 4G networks are performing far from consistently When we rank our 77 countries by off-peak speeds, we see yet another

facet to the story. In Chart 4, the blue bars represent the 4G Download

Speeds during the hour when speeds are fastest, when most users are

offline, and there’s likely the least data demand in each country.

This fastest speed during the quietest time of day indicates the true

technical capabilities of a country's networks when unfettered by

congestion. South Korea was at the top of that list, followed by several

traditional 4G powerhouses: Switzerland, the Netherlands, Singapore,

Norway, Denmark and Australia. But all seven of those countries have

different average 4G Download Speeds across all hours of the day, as

shown in the gray bars.

Some countries were better than others when it comes to delivering the

full capacity of their networks to their customers on a consistent basis.

We've already pointed out that Switzerland lags behind its peers on this

front, but Denmark also demonstrates a huge gap between its best speed

and average speed. In contrast, Canada does an excellent job delivering

the full capabilities of its network from hour to hour. There was very little

difference between Canada's most optimized connections and its

average speed, putting it not only among the fastest countries in our

analysis but also the most consistent.


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Thailand

India

Nigeria

Algeria

Bangladesh

Indonesia

Philippines

Panama

Costa Rica

Côte d'Ivoire

Saudi Arabia

Malaysia

Hong Kong

Peru

Egypt

Argentina

Sri Lanka

Cambodia

Pakistan

Morocco

South Africa

Russian Federation

Dominican Republic

Guatemala

Vietnam

Bahrain

Colombia

Kuwait

Mexico

Brazil


Jordan

Bolivia

Ukraine

Tunisia

Germany

Ecuador

Chile

Myanmar

Portugal

Kazakhstan

Slovakia

Poland

Greece

Lebanon

Oman

Italy

United Kingdom

Uruguay

Czech Republic

Turkey

Israel

Qatar

Romania

Japan

Spain

Taiwan


Belarus

Ireland

Sweden

Austria

Croatia

Serbia

Bulgaria

Finland

France

Canada

New Zealand

Hungary

Australia

Denmark

Norway

Singapore

Netherlands

Switzerland

South Korea

Countries’ ranking by 4G Download Speed

experienced at fastest hour


Speed at fastest hour of the day Average speed

Countries’ ranking by 4G Download Speed experienced at fastest hour Chart 4


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At the opposite end of the spectrum is India. India has low average 4G

Download Speeds, but our analysis shows that its networks are a lot more

powerful than their average speeds would indicate. India's optimized

connection speed is more than twice as fast as its average connection

speed. The mobile competitive landscape on the subcontinent is quite

challenging at the moment. Competitive pricing pressure and cheap data

bundling have caused 4G use and mobile data consumption to skyrocket,

which is likely causing high levels of congestion on India's 4G networks

and explains the big gap we see between peak-hour and average speeds.

Ecuador is the Latin American country with the fastest speed at its busiest

time of day, though both Uruguay and Chile had faster top-line speeds

than Ecuador when their networks were uncongested. When it comes to

average speeds, though, Mexico (20.1 Mbps) and Brazil (18.6 Mbps) both

came out ahead of Uruguay (18.4 Mbps) and Chile (14.7 Mbps), showing

that even though their peaks are lower they're able to deliver a much

more consistent speed experience throughout the day. In fact, Chile is

the Latin American country with the greatest fluctuations in speed. 4G

Download Speed at quiet hours in Chile (32.7 Mbps) is up to 3.6 times

faster than at busy times (9.1 Mbps).

The U.S. will be an interesting bellwether of 5G's impact on congestion

and speed consistency because it sits smack dab in the middle rank of

countries for average 4G Download Speeds and in its range of speed

variation by time of day. In the U.S. the distribution of 4G speeds

throughout the day is neither particularly consistent nor particularly

inconsistent, yet it will be one of the first countries to widely adopt 5G

services. Any improvements we see in the U.S. mobile consumer

experience due to 5G, we'll likely see reflected in many other parts of the

world.

Evening is slowest time of day most likely because of entertainment usage We've discussed peak hours extensively, but these vary in different

regions of the world, as we can see in Chart 5. For the vast majority of

countries, the busiest hour — when demand is highest and speeds are

slowest — falls in the evening between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m., after the

business day concludes. In Japan, the networks get really hopping at

midday, most likely as everyone starts watching mobile video at

lunchtime.


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Bangladesh

Morocco

Uruguay

South Korea

Algeria

Pakistan

Bahrain

Malaysia

Chile

Côte d'Ivoire

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Hong Kong

Tunisia

Bolivia

Egypt

Ireland

Mexico

Turkey

Taiwan

France

Portugal

Lebanon

Spain

Greece

Canada

India

Indonesia

Thailand

Philippines

Belarus

Nigeria

Dominican Republic

Peru

Kuwait

Guatemala

Saudi Arabia

Russian Federation

Poland

Israel

Sri Lanka

Myanmar

South Africa

Ukraine

Italy

Finland

Sweden

Romania


Croatia

Qatar

Serbia

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Denmark

Australia

New Zealand

Cambodia

Panama

Argentina

Colombia


Brazil

Vietnam

Germany

Oman

Austria

Slovakia

Switzerland

Hungary

Ecuador

Costa Rica

Norway

Singapore

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Japan

Time of day when 4G Download Speeds experienced

are slowest


12pm

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6pm

7pm

8pm

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Time of day when 4G Download Speeds experienced are slowest Chart 5


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In the U.K. and the Netherlands, the most congested time comes far

earlier, around 4 and 5 p.m., just as the business day is coming to a close.

Smartphone owners are likely either still working, or using their phones

while commuting, and most students have returned from school.

Cities often experience the biggest speed swings of all Comparing select cities around the world shows enormous variation in

the speeds smartphone users experience. In Chart 6, Opensignal has

analyzed how major cities stack up in both average 4G Download Speeds

and the extent of variation in speed throughout the day.

It's clear that wild swings in speed are even more common at a city level

than they are nationally. In Paris, our analysis showed that 4G Download

Speed can climb as high as 51.4 Mbps one hour, but later in the day drop

to 21.5 Mbps. While Paris offered up the most extreme example, all of

the cities had big dips and spikes in their speeds over the course of a day.

Cities often have the latest 4G technologies deployed and so should

deliver the fastest speeds. And our measurements show they do, but only

in the late hours night, when most users aren't seeking a fast mobile

experience. During the day and evening, speeds drop dramatically,

highlighting the failure of current 4G networks to deliver a consistent

experience.

Many of the new 5G-only spectrum bands are ideally suited to cities —

such as mmWave — because of their short range and extremely high

capacities. In today's networks, typical bands held by an operator might

be 5 MHz or 10 MHz wide in the lower frequencies or 20 MHz or 40

MHz wide on higher-frequency bands where most 4G networks operate

today, but the new 5G bands will open up hundreds of megahertz of new

extremely high frequency spectrum for mobile broadband use, delivering

much greater capacity to minimize the effect of congestion.

Most operator 5G trials have been taking place in major cities because

operators know this is where they need to add capacity the most. So

analyzing where 4G speed variations are the greatest and networks are

most congested, provides an excellent indicator of the locations where

5G should be deployed to provide the greatest benefit and an improved

mobile network experience.


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Johannesburg

Ho Chi M inh

Athens

Delhi

Ciudad de Mexico

Lima

Buenos Aires

Lisbon

Manila

Jakarta

Kuala Lumpur

Toronto

Moscow City

Brasilia

Bogota

Roma

Madrid

Istanbul

Tokyo

Yangon

Seoul

Berlin

Taipei

New York

Warsaw

London

Sant iago

Sydney

Paris

Cities will benefit even more from new 5G capacity because

usersexperience an even wider range of 4G speeds


4G Download Speed at slowest hour of day Average speed experienced 4G Download Speed at fastest hour of day

Greatest

speed range

Cities will benefit even more from new 5G capacity because users experience an even wider range of 4G speeds Chart 6


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Our Methodology

Opensignal measures the real-world experience of consumers on mobile networks as they go about their daily lives. We collect over 3 billion individual measurements every day from tens of

millions of smartphones worldwide. Our measurements are collected at

all hours of the day, every day of the year, under conditions of normal

usage, including inside buildings and outdoors, in cities and the

countryside, and everywhere in between. By analyzing on-device

measurements recorded in the places where subscribers actually live,

work and travel, we report on mobile network service the way users truly

experience it. We continually adapt our methodology to best represent

the changing experience of consumers on mobile networks and,

therefore, comparisons of the results to past reports should be

considered indicative only.

For every metric we’ve calculated statistical confidence intervals and

plotted them on all of the graphs. When confidence intervals overlap for

a certain metric, our measured results are too close to declare a winner

in a particular category. In those cases, we show a statistical draw. For

this reason, some metrics have multiple operator winners.

Confidence Intervals For every metric we calculate statistical confidence intervals indicated on

our graphs. When confidence intervals overlap, our measured results are

too close to declare a winner. In those cases, we show a statistical draw.

For this reason, some metrics have multiple operator winners.

In our bar graphs we represent confidence intervals as boundaries on

either sides of graph bars. In our supporting-metric charts we show

confidence intervals as +/- numerical values.


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Our Metrics4G Availability

4G Availability shows the proportion of time

Opensignal users with a 4G device have a 4G

connection. 4G Availability is not a measure of

coverage or the geographic extent of a network.

Video Experience

Video Experience quantifies the quality of mobile

video experienced by Opensignal users on real-

world video streams.

To calculate Video Experience, we directly

measure video streams from end-user devices,

using an ITU-based approach to quantify factors

such as load times, stalling and video resolution

over both an operator's 3G and 4G networks.

Video Experience for each operator is calculated

on a scale from 0 to 100.

4G Video Experience. This metric quantifies the

quality of mobile video for each operator on LTE

connections as experienced by Opensignal users

on real-world video streams.

3G Video Experience. This metric quantifies the

quality of mobile video for each operator on 3G

connections as experienced by Opensignal users

on real-world video streams.

Download Speed Experience

Download Speed Experience shows the average

download speed experienced by Opensignal

users across an operator’s 3G and 4G networks.

It factors in 3G and 4G download speeds along

with the the availability of each technology.

4G Download Speed. This metric shows the

average download speed for each operator on

LTE connections as measured by Opensignal

users.

3G Download Speed. This metric shows the

average download speed for each operator on

3G connections as measured by Opensignal

users.

Upload Speed Experience

Upload Speed Experience measures the average

upload speeds experienced by Opensignal users

across an operator’s 3G and 4G networks.

It factors in 3G and 4G upload speeds along with

the availability of each technology.

4G Upload Speed. This metric shows the average

upload speed for each operator on LTE

connections as measured by Opensignal users.

3G Upload Speed. This metric shows the average

upload speed for each operator on 3G

connections as measured by Opensignal users.

Latency Experience

Measured in milliseconds, latency refers to the

delay users experience as data makes a round trip

through the network.

Our Latency Experience metric is calculated as an

average of the individual 3G and 4G latency

measurements based on the proportion of time

Opensignal users spend connected to each

network type. A lower score in this metric is a

sign of a more responsive network.

4G Latency. This metric shows the average

latency for each operator on LTE connections as

measured by Opensignal users.

3G Latency. This metric shows the average

latency for each operator on 3G connections as

measured by Opensignal users.


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