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5G in the stadium: Tim shines for performance and Wind Tre for coverage

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5G in the stadium: Tim shines for performance and Wind Tre for coverage

5G is still taking its first steps in Italy but there is at least one place where its tripping becomes less and less uncertain: at the stadium. As confirmed by the specialist in analysis of the mobile sector Opensignal “the football season 2021/2022 is the first complete season in which 5G of all four national mobile operators is widely available”. Tim, Vodafone, Wind Tre and Iliad they have proven to be able to provide rather sensational average performances, if they are compared, for example, with residential or the same 4G mobile services. The intent of course is to allow the fans to share photos and videos, stream highlights of the matches e view replaysdo live footage to be broadcast on their channels and many other activities.

But before getting to the heart of the numbers it is good to remember that Opensignal carried out the analysis based on the performance and experiential tests, of a sample of users, carried out within one kilometer of the seventeen stadiums which host the twenty Serie A football teams. All between 1 September 2021 and 27 February 2022, practically 180 days.

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Tim 5G stands out for its performance

Tim 5G customers are those who have reached the averages in download higher with 334 Mbps, practically more than double that of Vodafone (158.2 Mbps) and even more than Iliad (83 Mbps) and Wind Tre (64 Mbps). In uploadtherefore in the transfer of files to other destinations, Tim customers recorded on average i 29,9 Mbps, against Vodafone’s 18.2 Mbps, Wind Tre’s 17.3 Mbps and Iliad’s 8.9 Mbps. The download results are remarkable and higher than those recorded by Opensignal in November on the national territory; with the exception of Iliad which was positioned on 100 Mbps.

The upload instead corresponds to the same (low) performances of the city 5G. In any case, Tim stands out and the reason is probably also due to the infrastructural work carried out over the years to promote synergy with the football dimension. For example, the same experimentation of the first short-range antennas (small-cell), today key for areas with high concentration of traffic, began many years ago right at the stadiums.

Consequently it is not surprising that in the evaluation of the so-called 5G Video Experience Tim again managed to outperform the competition with a score of 81.6 out of 100 points; a result that has allowed it to boast an attribute of excellence. Iliad (73.3), Vodafone (70.8) and Wind Tre (68.2) did not, however, disfigure. It should be remembered that on this front several parameters of the International Telecommunication Union are considered, such as the quality, load times and wait rate.

In the experience of mobile game Tim (77.4) offered performances similar to Wind Tre (74.4), while Vodafone (70.3) and Iliad (67.5) were a step behind. On the front of the communication appsuch as Whatsapp or Telegram, all operators showed similar experiential qualities, registering between 79.3 and 77.3 points.

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Finally, the last data concerns the diffusion, or rather the availability of the 5G service and therefore the percentage of access time to 5G compared to the rest, always in the stadium area. In this sense, Wind Tre and Vodafone customers reached respectively 27.5% and 26% of the time, against 7.2% of Tim and 5.6% of Iliad.

Practically 5G coverage continues to be meager and in most cases the users use the 4G network or older. And this also explains the reason for the two recent government calls for projects to extend the network.

However, as in most countries in the world, today an architecture called 5G Nsa (non-standalone, non-independent) is being used, which is a fifth generation technology that relies on a fourth generation infrastructure. Starting from 2023, the first 5G Sa (standalone) networks will also be switched on in Italy and as for example in South Korea, performance will leap forward, bringing with it new renewed services.

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