Vietnam’s mobile subscribers' experience tops others compared to Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, according to the latest State of Mobile Networks report on the region from Tutela.
Tutela, a global crowdsourced mobile data company said Vietnam leads the other countries with 'Excellent Consistent Quality' of 71.4%, with Malaysia scoring 64.0% to be in the second place
Excellent Consistent Quality is Tutela’s measure for how often a mobile operator provides its users with a connection that is suitable for a range of more intensive use cases such as 1080p video streaming, group HD video calls and realtime gaming.
The report used data from over 14 million devices (iOS and Android smartphones), including over 330 million speed tests, collected between July 1st and December 31st 2019.
Overall, Vietnam also had the fastest networks in the region on average, with a median of 10.6 Mbps. By operator, Viettel dominated in the country, winning in all five of the categories tested with an Excellent Consistent Quality of 79.1%, and a median download throughput of 13.4 Mbps.
Although Indonesian networks are middle of the pack for the region overall, Telkomsel (Indonesia) is individually one of the best-performing operators in this report, and significantly outperforms all other Indonesian operators, and many of those from the other countries tested, on virtually every metric.
In Thailand, smartphone subscribers’ mobile experience depends greatly on what kind of things they do with their smartphones. DTAC and TrueMove have virtually identical Core Consistent Quality percentages, indicating that their networks are on par for common use-cases like streaming SD video or browsing the internet.
Tom Luke, VP at Tutela
Countries in South East Asia are experiencing huge mobile traffic growth at a pace that outstrips much of the rest of the world. As such, it falls to operators to find a way to use their existing resources to deliver an outstanding mobile experience as consumers continue to demand even more from their mobile networks particularly for things like video streaming on the go.
