‘Best and Worst’ Mobile Networks in Pakistan: Check PTA 2024 Survey here
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ISLAMABAD – The Telecom industry in Pakistan is transforming and it is affecting the industry’s business cases profit and services are also being changed, and the national telecom authority now shared a survey for the best and worst telecom networks.
The two-month-long survey was conducted in the 1st Quarter of 2024, and evaluated performance of Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) based on the Cellular Mobile Network Quality of Service (QoS) Regulations. The survey includes 0.25 million tests of Mobile Broadband, 45,000 Calls & SMS, and 0.13 million Ookla Speed tests.
The mobile networks were ranked in four position in Mobile Network Coverage, Mobile Broadband, Voice, and SMS Services based on their compliance level with the defined thresholds in QoS Regulations. PTA classified the networks based on SMS, Voice quality, Mobile Broadband, Data, Latency and and internet browsing.
Mobile networks in Pakistan
More than a dozen cities of Punjab, Sindh, KP, and Balochistan were included from January 1 to March 31 in survey and 3G signal strength samples were recorded on survey routes wherever the network switched to 3G while the mobile handset was in technology auto-detect mode.
Results show that more than 300 calls were failed during 20,485 call attempts. 143 calls were dropped prior to completion of two minutes, while 20,003 calls remained connected for the complete duration.
