Mobile phone companies have been able to stretch their 3G & 4G networks to more than half of Pakistani mobile phone users, said OpenSignal in a market intelligence report it released today.
3G/4G Network Availability
Report said that 63.47% of Pakistani networks are 3G enabled, i.e. almost two third of all cell sites in Pakistan are on 3G (or 4G) network.
OpenSignal said that its 3G/4G network availability metric measures the proportion of time users can connect to a 3G or 4G network.
South Korea lead the 3G/4G availability chart as 98.54% of its network is either on 3G or 4G.
3G or 4G network availability in India stood at 56%.
Average Speed
Report said that average mobile internet speed for Pakistani users stood at 3.3Mbps, that’s just ahead of Afghanistan which is ranked lowest on charts and offered an average mobile internet speed of 2.17Mbps.
Average mobile internet speeds in South Korea, the top country in the category, stood at 41.34Mbps.
Average network speeds for 3G and 4G in India were measured at 5.40Mbps.
Time on WiFi
This metric shows the percentage of time that users in each country were connected to Wifi networks rather than cellular networks. Time on Wifi, however, doesn’t represent the amount of data usage over Wifi.
Report said that 34.12% of mobile phone users had WiFi access and they connected to internet using WiFi during the time the company conducted the survey.
This also means that almost 65.88% of mobile phone users don’t have WiFi access and mobile internet is their primary source of internet connectivity.
Netherlands topped this category as 70% of its mobile phone users had WiFi access, while Ethiopia with 15.5% of users having WiFi access was last in the survey.
Methodology
OpenSignal said that the data collected for above findings came from regular consumer smartphones and was recorded under normal usage.
For this particular report, 12,356,994,498 datapoints were collected from 822,556 users during the period: May 1st – Jul 23rd 2016
All data has been collected from users of the OpenSignal mobile app for Android or iOS.
Full report available here.
But Not In Kashmir AJK.. Still 2G here !! Still no news about 3G in AJK? Aamir Bahi?
The map shows Afghanistan has better 3G availability than Pakistan and Pakistan has better than India. Can somebody explain this?
your are wrong, pls check the map again
he is not wrong
total number of cell tower’s and out of them how many are on 3G or above.
3G or 4G network availability in India stood at 56%
3G or 4G network availability in Pakistan stood (around) at 64%
though this seems as India is far behind, but if they have 200 more towers than Pakistan
(example) than they have far more 3g/4g enabled towers than us.
around 64%
:)
Darker side has the better speed to please recheck.
India is darker than Pakistan and Afghanistan
Pakistan is darker than Afghanistan
Afghanistan is more darker than Pakistan and Pakistan is more darker than India. You must recheck.
Atif has explained it above. Check it, please.
I wrote research paper over 3G/4G QoS in Pakistan. Its yet submitted for evaluation to the University. Will be made public after evaluation.
Do share with us when its done.
Sure Amir Bhai :)
Let Telenor to introduce 4G and speed would go Up… !
Billay Woh Kesay??
chacha jee… 4G sy speed average bahtr hi hogi.. nechy to any sy rahi… Aisy… :P
kya pta bhai Pakistan hy ye :p oper se Telenor ka 3g phle he thakka hua hy boht
Hopeful with 3G/4G upto 98% in Pakistan too, is urgent need I guess.
so what are the reasons behind so poor speeds as compared to the rest of the world?
Dear Reader,
Indeed, it is a good news but is anyone trying to know the “Network Engineer” Life in Pakistan.
Telecom Operator network is handled by Chinese Vendors. They have no Quality of Voice and Data (Call Drops and internet Coverage)
These Chinese Vendor (ZTE, Huawei) hire only few people means if there are 10 position, they will hire only one resource. So that Vendor and operators remain happy but mostly network engineers are on the road or leaving the country. Not only this, there is no job security as well. These company are hiring a resource on third party contract so no one can capture them. And These company even does not provide basic employee benefits.
Recently ZTE terminates many network engineer without informing them. These chinese vendor have no ethics.
If PTA takes notice on CALL DROP/BAD VOICE QUALITY etc and fines the operators then these chinese companies automatically kick out because their devices are very low quality, cannot bear the load.
These companies are using Pakistan as test bed to mature their product.
I request anyone who have a good heart please spread my VOICE.
Regards
A Pakistani
Network Engineer
**Dear Reader,**
Indeed, it is a good news but is anyone trying to know the “Network Engineer” Life in Pakistan.
Telecom Operator network is handled by Chinese Vendors. They have no Quality of Voice and Data (Call Drops and internet Coverage)
These Chinese vendors (ZTE, Huawei) hire only a few people means if there are 10 positions, they will hire only one resource. So that Vendor and operators remain happy but mostly network engineers are on the road or leaving the country. Not only this, there is no job security as well. These companies are hiring a resource on third party contract so no one can capture them. And These company even does not provide basic employee benefits.
Recently ZTE terminates many network engineer without informing them. These Chinese vendors have no ethics.
If PTA takes notice on CALL DROP/BAD VOICE QUALITY etc and fines the operators then these Chinese companies automatically kick out because their devices are very low quality, cannot bear the load.
These companies are using Pakistan as the test bed to mature their product.
I request anyone who has a good heart please spread my VOICE.
Regards
A Pakistani
Network Engineer