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Vodafone and Telekom are joint winners of the Games Experience award. In our last report, when we first issued an award for this measure of the mobile experience to a Romanian operator, Telekom won the award outright.
While Telekom was able to break a three-way tie to win the Voice App Experience award in our previous report, this time it was unable to maintain its lead over Vodafone and Orange. The three operators are joint winners for the award as was the case in our inaugural report on the Romanian mobile network experience this time last year. This change was driven by a 0.5 point drop in Telekom’s score, coupled by increases of 0.3 and 0.6 points in Orange and Vodafone’s scores, respectively.
In contrast to Games Experience and Voice App Experience, our Romanian users saw Orange break what had previously been a three-way statistical tie to win our Upload Speed Experience award outright. This was mainly driven by a 0.8 Mbps (7.6%) increase in the average upload speeds observed by our Orange users and a 0.6 Mbps (5.9%) decrease seen by their Telekom counterparts.
Orange has won our Download Speed Experience award for the third report in a row. This time it did so with a remarkable 11.2 Mbps (54.3%) lead over second-placed Vodafone — up 2.6 Mbps from our previous report. While our Vodafone users have seen an improvement of 0.6 Mbps (2.9%) in their average download speeds since our last report, Orange’s score rose by 3.2 Mbps (11.1%)
Digi Mobil, which has now won our 4G Availability award for two reports in a row, is just 0.5 percentage points off the 95% mark for this measure of the mobile experience, after scoring 88.5% in our previous report. Our users on its network have seen a massive six percentage point uptick in the proportion of time that they spent connected to 4G services and this has increased Digi Mobil’s lead over second-placed Orange by 5.2 percentage points, taking it to 7 percentage points.
Orange remains the dominant operator in Opensignal’s awards — it has won four out of seven awards outright — up from the three solo wins and one joint win it achieved in our previous report. In contrast, Telekom no longer has any outright wins to its name, due to statistically tying with Vodafone on Games Experience and with Orange and Vodafone for Voice App Experience. Digi Mobil was the only operator aside from Orange to win an award outright and it has done so with great aplomb, given that its 4G Availability score has rocketed since our last report to near the 95% mark. However, the operator remains in last place for 4G Coverage Experience, despite its score improving the most since our last report — rising by 0.7 points (13.6%). Taken together with Digi Mobil’s lead on 4G Availability, this indicates that our Digi Mobil users found it harder to find a 4G signal in some difficult-to-reach areas where they spent relatively small amounts of their time, but on average spent more time connected to 4G than their counterparts on other networks.
The impressive 3.2 Mbps (11.1%) increase in Orange’s Download Speed Experience score was doubtless aided by the operator’s 5G rollout. It announced back in August that it had expanded its 5G network in Bucharest to cover the entire city and has also rolled out 5G in Timisoara, Brasov, Constanta and Mamaia.
5G measurements contribute to the overall mobile network experience scores in this report.More recently, the Romanian communications regulatory, ANCOM, announced that it now expects the auction of spectrum in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 1500 MHz, 2600 MHz and 3.4-3.8 GHz frequency bands to take place in Q2 2021. The auction was originally planned to take place in Q2 2019 but was delayed to allow the time needed to establish network security requirements and approve license fees and payment conditions.
In this report, we’ve analyzed the mobile experience of our Romanian users across all four national operators — Digi Mobil, Orange, Telekom and Vodafone — over the 90 day period ending 29 November 2020.
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Mobile Experience Awards Winners
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Video Experience
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Orange
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Download Speed Experience
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Orange
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Upload Speed Experience
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Orange
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4G Availability
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4G Coverage Experience
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Orange
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Mobile Experience Awards Draws
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January 2021, Romania
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Telekom
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Voice App Experience
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