network benchmarking

Japanese operators have deployed a significant amount of 5G millimeter wave coverage in Toyko with unobtrusive sites and are using carrier aggregation (2 x 100 megahertz) in the uplink to …

There has been a long-running debate in network testing that basically asks, which is better: Highly controlled and repeatable drive- and walk-testing with special test set-ups to get deep RF …

Crowd-sourced network testing and analysis company Ookla has acquired testing company Solutelia and its Wireless Intelligence on-Demand (WINd) solutions, declaring that together the two companies will “disrupt and forever change …

Accenture to ‘significantly scale’ network engineering capabilities with umlaut acquisition Accenture will be acquiring German network engineering, testing and analytics company umlaut for an undisclosed sum, saying that the purchase …

There are two pillars that support the 5G user experience: Availability and performance. According to a new report from Rootmetrics, T-Mobile US is leading in 5G availability across US cities, …

The most-populous market in the U.S. — New York City and its surrounds — is also the fastest, according to a new ranking of metropolitan cellular networks by Rootmetrics. New …

How do you approach network benchmark testing so that it represents the user experience in a way that’s as reflective of real-world conditions as possible? And how do you best …

Speed, speed and more speed: So much of the consumer expectations, and industry testing and bragging, are focused on the new heights of speed that 5G can achieve. The question …

Carriers’ network investments are paying off with higher customer satisfaction Global Wireless Solutions has crowned AT&T the “best network” in its third annual national testing, but all of the three …

AT&T dominated download speeds, T-Mobile US has fastest average uploads Overall network speeds are on the rise and the four national networks are mostly running neck-and-neck in different testing categories, …

Some major urban business hubs of the U.S. are seeing less traffic, and what traffic there is, is moving faster. Hot spots of mobile activity have shifted from the heart …