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Rio Olympics: OpenSignal survey says carriers boosted LTE for the games

by Roberta Prescott
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With the Rio Olympics starting later this week in host city Rio de Janeiro, the state of mobile networks is a concern. Projections suggest the Rio Olympics, like its predecessors, will break the record for social media usage. OpenSignal released a survey showing that Rio not only got an LTE boost for the Olympics, it also noted that, since its first Brazil report last August (check it here), 4G availability has improved at a constant rate. Brazil still ranks near the bottom of the list for 4G availability among its Latin American and global peers.
Last year, OpenSignal CEO Brendan Gill said he wasn’t sure what to expect when the crowds descend on Brazil for the Rio Olympics. From that interview: “We can’t say for sure as we can’t yet test what will happen when millions of people come to Brazil next year.”
The company said it examined the performance of Brazil’s mobile networks, drawing on more than 85 million measurements collected by 45,000 users of its app between February and April 2016. RCR Wireless News did a video interview with Gill, also the co-founder of OpenSignal, to get the details of the survey.

Click here for more stories about the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series focused on the technology deployments that support the Rio 2016 Olympics. 

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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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