The mobile network performance crowdsourcer OpenSignal published its latest State of LTE report today. This time it’s based on data samples from 357924 mobile users who have OpenSignal’s app on their Android devices. The network performance data isn’t just gathered when users actively do a measurement; it’s collected all the time and the number of samples are therefore hundreds of millions. The stats thus better represent the normal behavioural patterns of users when it comes to time and location. The data is collected during the fourth quarter of 2015. Continue reading Crowdsourced 4G experience: Benchmarking Nordic operators
Category Archives: Analysis
34 petabytes of zero-rated video streamed since launch of Binge On
Mid November last year, T-Mobile USA launched its 10th uncarrier initiative, Binge On. It has been the most controversial uncarrier launch so far.
Why? Binge On zero-rates commercial video services – so that T-Mobile customers can watch as much as they like without emptying their data bucket. The trade-off? Video streams are slowed down to about 1.5 Mbit/s which means that image quality suffers – which is visible, but perhaps not on smaller screens like smartphones and tablets. Continue reading 34 petabytes of zero-rated video streamed since launch of Binge On
5 GB per any SIM and month no longer a utopia – if price is right
Which operator is in the top when it comes to mobile data usage?
Which country charges the most for mobile data?
Find the answers to these and other important mobile data usage and monetisation questions in tefficient’s 12th public analysis on the topic. Continue reading 5 GB per any SIM and month no longer a utopia – if price is right
Wi-Fi – the last piece of the customer retention puzzle?
Why should an operator complement their customers’ experience of mobile data with Wi-Fi? To improve customer loyalty?
Wi-Fi is a positively loaded term for many users – which speaks for using it as a retention tool. But are there operators that successfully reduce churn – without using more on customer retention – by having Wi-Fi included in their mobile propositions? Continue reading Wi-Fi – the last piece of the customer retention puzzle?
4G penetration: Global top list
4G is rapidly becoming a mature market normality.
Our top list to the right shows the reporting operators of the world with more than 40% 4G adoption in their retail bases as of September 2015.
The three Korean operators LG Uplus, KT and SK Telecom lead. No news; this has been the case since the first days of 4G. Continue reading 4G penetration: Global top list
Chart: Why Netflix’ expansion is good news for mobile carriers
Some of you might feel that tefficient tends to overstate the importance of Netflix for telecoms.
In most European markets where Netflix operates, it has as many subscribers as all other paid video streaming services together. In some of these countries Netflix has more households subscribing to its service than there are IPTV households in the country. Continue reading Chart: Why Netflix’ expansion is good news for mobile carriers
Plan B: Avoid the merger-to-no-merger journey
The shock waves reverberate in the European telecoms industry ever since Telenor and TeliaSonera in September deemed it pointless to continue negotiations with the European Commission to win support for a mobile merger between Telenor and Telia in Denmark. Continue reading Plan B: Avoid the merger-to-no-merger journey
Too much equipment and too little service revenue? Or vice versa? Check here.
We all know that a significant share of mobile operator revenue is equipment, not service, related. Even though equipment subsidisation and lock-in contracts rapidly become less popular, the reality is that if it wasn’t for subsidisation, reported equipment revenues would be even higher.
Our comparison of 80 reporting operators globally – all in mature markets – shows that the equipment revenue to total mobile revenue ratio can be as low as 5% and as high as 77% (click graph to enlarge): Continue reading Too much equipment and too little service revenue? Or vice versa? Check here.
How carriers are using Wi-Fi across the world
One year elapsed since the previous Wi-Fi conference in Europe and carriers’ deployment of Wi-Fi has never been faster.
The graph is fetched from our presentation in the Wi-Fi NOW conference in Amsterdam yesterday and shows the number of hotspots in green and homespots in amber for 45 reporting carriers globally (click to enlarge): Continue reading How carriers are using Wi-Fi across the world
Competitive dashboard for four country markets
Analysis & Go-to-market, 2015
Developing a standardised dashboard format for the tracking of the business development of competing operators in four different country markets. Continue reading Competitive dashboard for four country markets