Mobile Networks Update: Argentina (May 2017)

It's been six months since Opensignal published its last State of Mobile Networks: Argentina report so it's time for our semi-annual update. For this installment of our Argentina analysis, we're going with a new report format. Our Mobile Networks Update takes a snapshot of the key changes we've seen in the dynamic Argentine mobile market in the last few months, including all of the key metrics we track.

  • Personal is still the operator to beat in Argentina when it comes to 4G speed. In fact, we've even seen a slight improvement in Personal's speed test results. Personal averaged 4G download connections of 17.1 Mbps in our latest test period, compared to 16.1 Mbps six months ago.
  • While Movistar topped our 4G availability rankings in our last report, it faced some stiffer competition from Personal this time around. The two operators were statistically tied in LTE availability. Opensignal users were able to connect to their LTE networks in roughly seven out of every 10 attempts.
  • Overall, we continue to see LTE's reach in Argentina steadily expanding, but 4G speeds remain relatively slow. Both Claro and Personal saw significant jumps in their LTE availability scores since December 2016, though Movistar's availability rating took a slight dip. The average 4G speed we measured for each operator, however, fell below the global average of 17.4 Mbps.

Opensignal Awards Table

Download Speed: 4G Download Speed: 3G Download Speed: Overall Latency: 4G Latency: 3G Availability: 4G

Claro

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Movistar

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Personal

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Performance by Metric

Download Speed: 4G

This metric shows the average download speed for each operator on LTE connections as measured by Opensignal users.

Download Speed: 3G

This metric shows the average download speed for each operator on 3G connections as measured by Opensignal users.

Download Speed: Overall

This metric shows the average download speed experienced by Opensignal users across all of an operator's 3G and 4G networks. Overall speed doesn't just factor in 3G and LTE speeds, but also the availability of each network technology. Operators with lower LTE availability tend to have lower overall speeds because their customers spend more time connected to slower 3G networks.

Latency: 4G

This metric shows the average latency for each operator on LTE connections as measured by Opensignal users. Latency, measured in milliseconds, is the delay data experiences as it makes a round trip through the network. A lower score in this metric is a sign of a more responsive network.

Latency: 3G

This metric shows the average latency for each operator on 3G connections as measured by Opensignal users. Latency, measured in milliseconds, is the delay data experiences as it makes a round trip through the network. A lower score in this metric is a sign of a more responsive network.

Availability: 4G

This metric shows the proportion of time Opensignal users have an LTE connection available to them on each operator’s network. It's a measure of how often users can access a 4G network rather than a measure of geographic or population coverage.

Our Methodology

Opensignal measures the real-world experience of consumers on mobile networks as they go about their daily lives. We collect 3 billion individual measurements every day from tens of millions of smartphones worldwide.

Our measurements are collected at all hours of the day, every day of the year, under conditions of normal usage, including inside buildings and outdoors, in cities and the countryside, and everywhere in between. By analyzing on-device measurements recorded in the places where subscribers actually live, work and travel, we report on mobile network service the way users truly experience it.

For this particular report, 328,109,967 datapoints were collected from 15,167 users during the period: 2017-02-01 - 2017-04-30.

We continually adapt our methodology to best represent the changing experience of consumers on mobile networks and, therefore, comparisons of the results to past reports should be considered indicative only. For more information on how we collect and analyze our data, see our methodology page.

For every metric we've calculated statistical confidence intervals and plotted them on all of the graphs. When confidence intervals overlap for a certain metric, our measured results are too close to declare a winner in a particular category. In those cases, we show a statistical draw. For this reason, some metrics have multiple operator winners.

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