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THE GREAT 2020 MOBILE NETWORK TEST IN SWITZERLAND
Together with our longtime network testing partner umlaut we have investigated in the 26th year which mobile operators and mobile networks lead the field in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Even in the 26th year of our mobile network tests there is much news to report. It starts with our network testing partner who was formerly known under the name P3 communications, but now has repositioned its business and will henceforth operate under the name umlaut. Of course, this does not change anything regarding its unrestricted competence and neutrality. Maybe the new situation even still enhances these virtues: According to its new motto “to always put something on top“, umlaut‘s network testing teams couldn‘t resist the opportunity to also perform first measurements in the new 5G networks. You can read about their findings here.
But there is more: We further refined our crowdsourcing methodology, which we had included into our assessments for the first time last year – now making it even more significant. Crowdsourcing complements the results of our drivetests and walktests with long-term observations from a large number of mobile communications users.
Refined Crowdsourcing Results
With our latest refinements to the crowdsourcing aggregations, we now also include uploads into our data throughput assessments. Furthermore, we also made the descriptions about coverage more granular and meaningful (for details please see “Methodology“).
What did not change was the great effort which we put into the gathering of our results and the safeguarding of its statistical relevance. The key figures presented below notably prove this once again this year.
Yet, this effort definitely pays dividends as our relevance is confirmed each and every year by the operator‘s reactions. Regardless whether they won or lost – each of them makes quite clear that they attach much greater importance to our sophisticated evaluations than to the growing number of other parties‘ attempts to gain attention in the marketplace with their own flavours of “network tests“.