People browse the internet near an advertising billboard for 4G connection service at a bus-stop in Hanoi
Connections are fast but availability is
unstable, according to a global mobile network report.
Vietnam’s 4G connections are
much faster than the United
States and most of its Southeast Asian
neighbors, although signal is not always available, according to a new report.
The 4G speed in Vietnam
was measured at 21.49 Mbps, far better than 16.31 Mbps in the U.S. and faster than the rest of Southeast Asia,
apart from Singapore.
Singapore clocked the world’s
fastest 4G speed of 44.31 Mbps, followed closely by the Netherlands, Norway
and South Korea,
according to the survey by OpenSignal.
The London-based company released the “State of LTE” report this week,
analyzing the performance of the global mobile wireless networks after
conducting nearly 60 billion measurements on almost five million devices in 88
economies during the last quarter of 2017.
Vietnam’s 4G networks
performed better in terms of speed than availability.
Vietnamese users only had access to 4G networks 71 percent
of the time, less than Thailand
(85 pct), Singapore (84
pct), Malaysia (75 pct), Brunei (74 pct) and Indonesia (72 pct), the report
showed.
South
Korea claimed the top position with its 4G
connections available more than 97 percent of the time. The U.S. made the top five in terms of network
availability, joining Japan,
Norway and Hong
Kong.
Vietnamese telecos started piloting 4G, the fourth
generation of broadband cellular network technology, succeeding 3G, in December
2015. The government plans to expand coverage to 95 percent of the population
by 2020.
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