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Note: In an earlier version of this report the grading of Yoigo in terms of the Crowd-sourced Coverage KPIs did not take the effects of this operator’s existing roaming agreements for Yoigo customers into account. This has been clarified in the current version.
The 2022 Mobile Network Test in SPAIN
For the seventh time, we – the benchmarking expert umlaut and connect magazine – have conducted our tough benchmark of the mobile networks in Spain. Once again, we have refined our methodology in the process.
All Spanish operators have worked hard to expand their 5G coverage and to strengthen their 4G offerings. So we wanted to find out which of the contenders offers the highest per- formance and best user experience of mobile voice and data services.
KEY FINDINGS
Orange and Vodafone rank on a par and thus both win the umlaut connect Mobile Benchmark in Spain together. Orange scores highest in the Voice category, while Vodafone leads in the Data assessment. Movistar also achieves the grade very good and scores highest in the Crowdsourcing assessment. Yoigo ranks fourth with the grade good.
The network benchmarks conducted by umlaut, part of Accenture, and connect are widely accepted as the de-facto industry standard and for being highly objective. The carefully designed methodology of our benchmark in Spain represents a holistic approach to network benchmarking. It combines drive tests and walk tests for executing detailed voice and data measure- ments under controlled circumstances with a sophisticated crowdsourcing methodology. This provides profound insights into the overall coverage of broadband services as well as real-world User Download Speeds and Latencies. We have thoroughly weighed these components in order to give a realistic and conclusive assessment of the rated networks‘ true potential and performance.
ORANGE AND VODAFONE SCORE ON A PAR AND THUS SHARE
THIS YEAR‘S WIN. MOVISTAR FOLLOWS WITH AN ALSO
VERY GOOD RESULT, YOIGO RANKS FOURTH
While Vodafone wins the umlaut connect Mobile Benchmark in
Spain for the seventh time in a row, Orange achieved a significant improvement over its results from our previous benchmark, improving by 27 points, thus fighting its way to the very top and joining the winning rank for the first time.Orange scores highest in the Voice category, while Vodafone leads in the Data category. Both are on a par in the Crowdsourcing results. Orange shows the highest 5G deployments according to the results gathered in our drive and walk tests.
Movistar ranks third, scoring only slightly behind Vodafone and ahead of Orange in the Data category. The Telefónica brand shows particularly convincing results in terms of data performance in smaller Spanish towns and in the connecting roads. Also, Movistar achieves the highest score in our Crowdsourcing category. Its 5G deployment is still heavily based on DSS, but shows a good availability with this technology in our tests.
Yoigo ranks fourth with an overall good result and convincing KPIs in most of the test catego- ries. Compared to our previous benchmark, this operator managed to improve its overall score by 19 points. To a large extent due to its roaming agreement with Orange, it also shows a good 5G coverage in our drive tests and walk tests.
Orange and Vodafone are both named
“Best in test“ with equal overall scores and
the grades “very good“. Movistar ranks third,
also achieving the grade “very good“.
Yoigo comes in fourth with the grade “good“.
