Mobile telecommunications may not be the cheapest in Hungary in European terms, but in return the subscribers in Hungary receive one of the best quality services for their money – the operators and the domestic policy/regulations like to say in full agreement. However, according to some independent tests, the regional players have moved past us in the meantime, so much so that it is Opensignal in the most recent ranking based on its quality indicator (consistent quality, i.e. CQ), no Hungarian mobile operator is even on the podium in the region.
Like Ookla’s Speedtest.net, Opensignal does not measure the capabilities of the networks itself, but assigns this task to the users, who can thus get an idea – and provide data to Opensignal – about what they what the chosen service provider can do in the given area.
The surveys, called crowdsourcing in technical language, can be evaluated on the basis of many aspects, this time Opensignal classified Eastern and Western European service providers, as well as company groups, according to CQ, which refers to the quasi-quality of mobile networks. This indicator does not primarily examine the download and upload bandwidth, but how the individual networks perform in real usage scenarios (e.g. video calls, use of social media networks, etc.).
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Based on Opensignal’s analysis of data from the end of this summer, the best quality service is clearly provided by the subsidiaries of the Deutsche Telekom group in Europe, in seven countries out of ten examined markets – including Hungary – the interest of the German multi became the leader in this metric.
Although Magyar Telekom’s numbers improved somewhat compared to the previous year’s survey, the Hungarian operation only came in seventh place in the in-house competition – the list is led by the Czech T-Mobile and closed by the somewhat troubled Telekom Romania, which is currently in the process of being sold.
Within the PPF Group, which is present with subsidiaries under the Yettel and O2 brands, the Bulgarian Yettel proved to be the most reliable, while the Hungarian bandwidth champion Yettel Hungary finished last – with a worsening trend, and all this while the company is just coming to the end of a significant network modernization stage.
Opensignal did not qualify Vodafone Hungary for the competition between Vodafone Group companies, presumably because the company has been majority-owned by the Hungarian 4iG Group since the beginning of last year and will no longer use the Vodafone name from next January.
Among the company groups present in the region, in the case of A1, Orange and Telemach, the Bulgarian, Slovak and Croatian subsidiaries won the domestic competition. According to GSMA Intelligence statistics, the combined market share of the six company groups is about 46% of the entire segment, which, according to Opensignal experts, points to the extremely strong fragmentation of the European mobile market, which has also been mentioned as a competitive disadvantage.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
