CROWD
The crowdsourcing shows the same ranking already familiar from the other categories.
But in this discipline, Telefónica scores surprisingly high.
We find the ranking determined in the previous categories once more in the overall crowdsourcing results: Telekom ranks first,
Vodafone in the middle and Telefónica/O2 third.
Even for the stronger contenders Telekom and Vodafone, 4G coverage in the cities shows a certain room for improvement. It is even more pronounced at Telefónica/O2 and in this case also concerns data coverage (which includes the provisioning of 3G as well) in non-urban areas. It is however noteworthy that according to the crowdsourcing results, O2 customers experienced the highest download and also upload data rates in the cities.
Only minor anomalies in six-month
observation period
The analysis of network stability during our six-month observation period identified one day with anomalies in the Telekom network, two such days at Telefónica and three at Vodafone. Keeping in mind that this observation spans over half a year, its result is however still tolerable.
Single Review
Already for the nineth time in a row, Telekom wins connect‘s mobile network test in Germany. In comparison to the previous year, the operator managed to improve once again in the voice discipline and
in the crowdsourcing. Its performance in data communications basically remained constant. Compared with the competition, the Bonn-based company however leads in all partial disciplines.
The comparison with last year‘s results shows that Vodafone also managed to improve – a little more pronounced in the voice discipline and in the crowdsourcing, to a smaller extent also in the data discipline.
As we tighten our requirements year over year, this is an achievement which would not have been possible without great efforts of the technicians and without extensive investments.
The improvement is clearly visible: From the grade “sufficient“ two years ago, via “satisfactory“ in the previous year, Telefónica now has fought its way up to the grade “good“. Of all three German operators, O2‘s advance is the most pronounced. This is also reflected by very good crowdsourcing results. However, in rural areas and on the railways, the gap to the competitors is still distinct.