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Vodafone has forced a statistical tie on Upload Speed Experience due to an impressive increase in the average upload speeds seen by our users on its network. As a result, both it and Orange (which won the award outright in our last report) are joint winners for the Upload Speed Experience award. While our users on both operators’ networks have seen their average upload speeds improve since our last report, Vodafone users saw the largest increase. Their average speeds rose by 1.7 Mbps (18.1%) while our Orange users saw theirs rise by 0.7 Mbps (6.5%), to stand at 11.2 and 11.3 Mbps, respectively.
Since our previous report, the average download speeds seen by our Vodafone users have increased by an impressive 5.9 Mbps (28.6%) to 26.6 Mbps, while their Orange counterparts saw a rise of 1.8 Mbps (5.8%) to reach 33.7 Mbps. This means that while Orange continues to be the sole winner of the Download Speed Experience award, its lead has dropped from 11.2 Mbps to 7.2 Mbps. However, Vodafone is still a long way from threatening Orange’s supremacy on Download Speed Experience.
All four operators have seen their Video Experience scores increase since our last report. Our Digi Mobil users saw the largest improvement as its score rose by 4.1 points, followed by Vodafone (2.9) and Orange (2.2), which remains the sole winner of the Video Experience award. This increase pushed Digi Mobil up one category — from Good (55-65) to Very Good (65-75). In addition, while Telekom’s score rose the least — 0.8 points — this was enough to give it a Good rating, up from Fair (40-55). This means that our Romanian users had at least a Good Video Experience across all four national operators.
Once again, Orange holds the lion’s share of awards — the operator retains the Video Experience, Download Speed Experience and 4G Coverage Experience awards, while also continuing to be a joint winner for Voice App Experience. However, this time round, it has been forced to share the Upload Speed Experience award with Vodafone.
Vodafone jointly keeps hold of two other awards — Games Experience with Telekom and Voice App Experience with Orange and Telekom. Vodafone’s scores across five out of seven metrics have increased at a faster rate than Orange’s, with particularly significant improvements in Download Speed Experience and Upload Speed Experience.
Digi Mobil remains the outright winner for the 4G Availability award. While Digi Mobil could not maintain the blistering pace it set on this award in our last report — when its score rose by six percentage points to reach 94.5% — it succeeded in hitting the 95% mark this time.
It will be interesting to see in our future reports if Vodafone can challenge Orange’s dominant position in terms of mobile network experience or if other mobile operators can catch up with Vodafone.
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 starting 1 March, 2021, and ending 29 May, 2021. 5G measurements contributed to the overall mobile network experience scores.
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