Audit Report. Mobile Benchmark Brazil, 2019
Audit Report.Mobile Benchmark Brazil, 2019
Forewörd.
With a gross domestic product of 1.9 billion dollars in 2018, Brazil is the nineth largest economy worldwide. Regarding land area and population, Brazilisthefifthlargestcountryintheworld. And with approximately 208 million people, Brazil is the most popoulos country in South America. Afterarecessionin2015and2016, Brazil‘s economy is growing again.
All these factors are very good reasons for umlaut to take a closer look into the Brazilian mobile communications market. umlaut, head-quartered in Aachen, Germany, is a world leader in mobile network testing. The company has over 4,100 employees world wide andaturnoverofmorethan350millionEuros.
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Testing area.Crowdsourcing based test data
Report facts.
73.2 % of populated areas Non-Urban
99.6 % of populated areas Urban
274.218 km2
size of tested area
6 Months w03/2019 to w26/2019
Data collection time period
15.5 Billion samples
1.8 Billion overallproviding samplesusers
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Crowd.
For the most recent crowdsourcing analysis conducted in
Brazil,1.8millionusershavecontributed15.5billionsam-
ples. The evaluation area of our crowdsourcing represents
99.6percentofthebuilt-upareaofthecountry.
Withanareaof8.5millionsquarekilometres,Brazilisthe
fifthlargestcountryintheworld,accountingformorethan
47 per cent of the surface of South America. It is no sur-
prise that this unique geography means huge challenges
for mobile Operators and makes it very hard to provide
countrywide network coverage. As about 90 per cent of
the Brazilian population are located in the federal States
near the southern and eastern coast of the country, ob-
viously mobile network operators focus on servicing these
areas – especially the larger cities. These prerequisites are
alsoreflectedintestingandbenchmarkingtheperfor-
mance and coverage of mobile networks. For the reasons
mentioned, approaches such as classic drivetesting can
only consider more densely populated areas. In contrast,
the method of crowdsourcing is ideally suited to analyze
the actual characteristics of the Brazilian mobile networks.
These analysis are based on gathering information in the
backgroundwhilesmartphoneownersuseasetofspecific
apps. However, the most important aspect is that this
approachisbasedondatagatheredfrom99.6percent
of the built-up area of Brazil – which makes it statistically
significantforthewholecountry.
Six month observation period.umlauts crowdsourcing metrics are based on six-month
periods. Interested parties are welcome to approach
umlaut any time for even more current results. The results
were placed into our scoring scheme with a maximum of
1,000points.Theyreflectthedifficultiestoprovidehigh
and widely distributed mobile network performance over
the huge country of Brazil. The geographic distribution of
the crowdsourced samples can be seen on page 2 of this
report.
Score and breakdown.Vivoachievedthehighestoverallscoreamongcompetitorswith698dotsoutofmaximum1000.
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Vivo TIM Claro Oi
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The graphic indicates the score dots achieved by the networks under test in the module “Crowdsourced Quality”.
The crowdsourced results emphasize the diffi-culties in providing a widely distributed hight mobile network performance over the huge country of Brazil.
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Overview.Crowdsourcing based test data
Telefónica scores highest in Voice and Data.The coverage values determined for voice and data rate
the areas where the according services are available.
However,itmustbetakenintoaccountthatthespecified
percentagevaluesdonotreflecttherespectivepartsof
Brazil‘s land area, but the quota of points that an operator
can achieve in this discipline. These points are earned for
both the actual coverage and also the “Quality of Co-
verage“ – a value representing whether voice and data
services actually work in the conside-red evaluation area.
In both disciplines, Vivo scores still higher than its compe-
titors. But the gap is much wider in the data category than
in the voice category, where all four Brazilian operators rank
closely together.
TIM gathers highest number of points for 4G Co-verage.When assessing the coverage of 4G service, TIM is ahead
of its competitors. Vivo and Claro still achieve remarkable
results, while Oi ranks clearly behind.
Claro ahead of competition in User Download Speed.The crowdsourcing also assesses the data rates that users
actually achieve when utilizing their smartphones. In this
examination,Claroisleadingthefield,Vivostillachievea
result in a similar range followed at a distance by TIM. Once
again, Oi ranks last in this discipline.
Telefónica and Oi leading in Data Service Availa-bility. This KPI rates the number and length of service degrada-
tions within the observation period. Between January 2019
and June 2019, Telefónica and Oi achieved the highest
scores,effectivelyrankingonpar.ClaroandTIMfollowat
some distance, but both still achieved viable results.
Vivo TIM Claro Oi
Coverage max. 1000 698 663 581 497
Voice Coverage 64 42 41 29
Data Coverage 106 84 77 51
4G Coverage 66 121 62 19
User Download Speed 117 89 125 71
User Upload Speed 65 60 66 48
Data Service Availability 280 268 210 280
Shown scores are rounded.
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