4 g speed improves in the country, but it''s still signal problem

The brazilian''s fastest mobile internet – at least so says a new study by OpenSignal, consulting that measures the quality of the broadband signal in smartphones from your application. In his latest report on Brazil, the company shows that all the operators had advances in average speeds of connection in 3 g networks as on 4 g in the last six months, in comparison with the previous report, released in July 2016.
Kevin Fitchard OpenSignal analyst, network improvements are direct results of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "The carriers have made a series of announcements to their 4 g networks for the games, such as adding capacity," says Fitchard. With the sporting event now in the past, "companies can leave a distraction aside and then improving the connection of the country." Released on Wednesday, 18, the report is based on 770,300,000 of OpenSignal tests conducted for approximately 39000 users between September 1 and November 30 2016.
It is necessary to emphasize that the OpenSignal changed the parameters of some of his tests between the July report and now. Among the changes, the consultancy says that in the new version of the application is performing the tests with more carriers servers — which, in theory, guarantees greater precision in the measurement of items such as network speed and latency (time it takes data to go from user until the platform server it is using and return). With more servers, however, says the company, the trend is that the tests finish with top speed data.
Of July here, the carrier had better evolution was the course, who leads in the aspect of test speed in 3 g in 4 g or the average between the two types of connectivity. "Even without being able to make direct comparisons between the two reports, it is possible to indicate that the course had a great improvement in speed this year. Before, they were 2 Mpbs below the world average of 4 g. Now, they''re 10 Mpbs up, "says Fitchard.
In 4 g, for example, the company leads with 27.45 Mpbs (megabit per second)-first runner-up, Vivo, has average speed of 21.29 Mpbs. Hi, with 14.61 Mpbs and TIM, with 12.05 Mpbs, follow in sequence – Nextel was disregarded in the 4 g because it only has this type of connection in metropolitan areas. In 3 g, the course leads with 3.91 Mpbs, ahead of TIM (3.46 Mpbs) and Alive (3.39 Mpbs).
Fickle. If there are improvements in speed, the same cannot be said about the availability of 4 g network – OpenSignal report criteria that measures the proportion of times that a user attempted to access the internet at high speed. According to the survey, none of the Brazilian operators managed to deliver LTE signal (formal name of 4 g) in more than 60% of the opportunities – who led in this regard was the TIM, with 59.21%.
"The main thing that the Brazilian operators need to do is to improve its services to make the 4 g more constant. If you can only use the network for half the time, it''s not exactly a service so useful that way, "says OpenSignal analyst. To invest in 4 g networks Fitchard generates a double return for businesses: in addition to being cheaper to deliver 4 g connection than its predecessors, people tend to consume more data packets when they have a faster connection to the net.
The analyst, however, see with some concern the delay at the end of the use of the 700 MHz band for the analog TV – after the television signal is migrated to digital, the frequency range will be occupied by 4 g. "It''s a very important frequency: it is easier than the signal passes through walls and travel larger areas in rural areas. The cover also improves without need of installation of new towers, "says Fitchard. "The sooner the 700 MHz can be used, the better."