Thursday, April 23, 2020

Use of Wi-Fi Might be Helping Sustain Mobile Download Speeds Globally

The percentage of time that smartphone users spend on Wi-Fi connections has increased across all of the top 50 U.S. cities, says Opensignal, as well as in most other countries.


Perhaps that is one reason Opensignal did not find significant deterioration in 4G download speeds in 49 of these 50 cities in the last few weeks, though some users in some countries have seen speed slowdowns of some sort.


Smartphone users in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan area increased the average amount of time they spent connected to a Wi-Fi network from 53.4 percent to 60.1 percent between the second and third weeks of March.


The highest proportion of time spent on Wi-Fi happened in the Denver metro area in the first week of April. 


Globally, mobile operators report mobile data consumption is increasing dramatically, but Opensignal’s analytics demonstrate that despite these challenges the mobile experience is holding up well.


Opensignal has seen only relatively small changes in users’ 4G download speeds in some countries, and none at all in other countries.


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