Sri Lanka Q3-Q4 2018 Fastest Mobile Award

Fastest Mobile Award

Sri Lanka Q3-Q4 2018 Dialog is Sri Lanka’s Speedtest® Awards Winner for mobile network speed. To win this award, Dialog achieved a Speed Score™ of 21.59, with average speeds of 23.23 Mbps for download and 11.63 Mbps for upload.

Speed Score Sri Lanka‘s Mobile Tests on LTE-Capable Devices Ookla® compared user-initiated tests taken on the Speedtest iOS and Android mobile apps from all the major mobile carriers in Sri Lanka during the award 21.59 period to determine who showed the fastest mobile network speeds.

Test Speed Carrier Count Score

Dialog 49,773 21.59

Mobitel 42,409 17.98

Airtel 3,974 6.21

Hutch 10,016 5.52

Etisalat 9,358 1.13

Speed Score incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed performance. See next page for more detail.

Market Statistics

Test Count Average Download Speed: Average Upload Speed: Average Latency:

115,530 18.26 Mbps 8.84 Mbps 41 ms

Unique Devices Mbps Mbps ms 22,289 iPhone X 1,076 Dialog 23.23 Dialog 11.63 Dialog 31

Nova 2i 982 Mobitel 19.63 Mobitel 9.11 Mobitel 34

iPhone 6s 942 Airtel 7.04 Airtel 1.07 Airtel 98

iPhone 7 929 Hutch 6.07 Hutch 2.37 Hutch 60

iPhone 6 878 Etisalat 1.24 Etisalat 1.40 Etisalat 67 Fastest Mobile Award Sri Lanka Q3-Q4 2018

How Speed Score Works When analyzing fastest operators, Ookla solely considers top carriers (all carriers with 3% or more of total test samples in the market for the period). We then determine the fastest carrier using Speed Score which incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed performance (90% of the final Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 10% to upload speed). The Speed Score uses a modified trimean to demonstrate the download and upload speeds that are available across a provider’s network. We take speeds from the 10th percentile, 50th percentile (also known as the median), and 90th percentile, and combine them in a weighted average using a 1:2:1 ratio, respectively. We place the most emphasis on the download speeds and median speeds as those represent what most network providers’ customers will experience on a day-to-day basis.

Download 90th 50th 10th Upload 90th 50th 10th Carrier Name Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile

Dialog 22.71 46.71 19.86 4.41 11.49 25.94 9.30 1.42

Mobitel 18.99 38.02 16.96 4.02 8.86 21.81 6.32 0.99

Airtel 6.79 12.49 6.21 2.26 0.97 1.43 1.04 0.36

Hutch 5.88 13.30 4.38 1.46 2.31 5.80 1.55 0.32

Etisalat 1.11 1.59 1.16 0.51 1.36 2.27 1.35 0.45

City Network Speeds

City Carrier Speed Score Mbps Mbps

Colombo Dialog 23.11 25.02 14.16

Mobitel 19.73 21.95 10.90

Hutch 6.68 7.75 3.28

Airtel 6.54 7.79 1.24

Etisalat 1.17 1.35 1.35

Sri Dialog 25.33 27.18 16.54 Jayawardenepura Kotte Mobitel 22.19 24.08 13.26

Hutch 6.99 8.29 3.19

Etisalat 1.10 1.19 1.42

0 9 18 27 36 45

Methodology For more information on our methodology visit Speedtest.net/Awards