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Mobile Network Experience Across Colombia's major cities

Posted: Nov 17, 2022

Opensignal has looked at the mobile network experience in seven of Colombia’s cities to compare the local mobile network experience our users had on four national operators — Claro, Movistar, Tigo and WOM. We covered the following Colombian cities: Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta and Medellín. 

How Colombia’s operators are re-using existing spectrum for modern 4G services

Posted: May 11, 2022

In this analysis, Opensignal has looked at how three national operators in Colombia use their spectrum holdings in one of the legacy 3G bands — 1900 MHz (band 2), also known as the PCS band. We observed that mobile operators have been shifting their use of this band from 3G to 4G technology and also have moved to larger channel widths for 4G connections which helps to boost the mobile experience of users.

Cómo los operadores Colombianos están reutilizando el espectro existente para los servicios 4G modernos

Posted: May 11, 2022

En este análisis, Opensignal ha examinado cómo tres operadores nacionales en Colombia utilizan sus tenencias de espectro en una de las bandas 3G heredadas: 1900 MHz (banda 2), también conocida como la banda PCS. Hemos observado que los operadores de telefonía móvil han cambiado el uso de esta banda de la tecnología 3G a la 4G y también han pasado a tener un mayor ancho de canal para las conexiones 4G, lo que ayuda a mejorar la experiencia móvil de los usuarios.

Understanding mobile experience explains why users in Colombia switch mobile operators

Posted: Nov 24, 2021

In this new analysis, Opensignal has found that Colombian smartphone users that switched their mobile operator saw a significantly worse mobile experience than the average for their original operator before they switched. These Leavers spent more time without a signal and less time connected to 4G. Also, we found that while Leavers sometimes improved their experience after switching to a new operator, it depended on which operator they joined.

Latin American cities’ 4G Download Speeds vary significantly round-the-clock

Posted: May 13, 2019

Opensignal has analyzed 4G Download Speeds experienced by our users on smartphones across six of the largest cities in Latin America: Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Santiago, and São Paulo. We discovered that our users in São Paulo enjoyed the fastest speeds with an average 4G Download Speed score of 21.3 Mbps, marginally faster than Mexico City by 0.3 Mbps. Meanwhile, our users in Buenos Aires experienced the slowest speeds, with average 4G Download Speeds of 16.2 Mbps.

Canada and Bolivia lead the Americas in our video experience analysis

Posted: Oct 16, 2018

OpenSignal recently published its first State of Mobile Video report, which analyzed how consumers experienced video over mobile networks in 69 countries around the world. Now we're drilling down into the specifics of various regions, starting first with the Americas. We found that compared to Europe, the Americas didn't rate as highly on our video scale. While the video experience in North and South American countries is by no means bad, there is definitely room for improvement.

As 4G reach in Latin America improves, so does the consumer experience

Posted: Mar 05, 2018

OpenSignal recently published its State of LTE report, examining 4G speed and 4G reach in 88 countries in the 4th quarter of 2017. Today, we're drilling down into a specific region, Latin America, to see how the 4G experience compares in the 14 Central, North and South American countries included in that report. As you can see from the charts below, there's a broad range of speeds across the region as well as a big variation between the level of LTE access among these 14 countries.