📋 Tender Overview
The download (download) speed in Peru's mobile internet service reached 11.42 Mbps (megabit per second) on average for 4G networks in the month of July, according to information compiled in the Mobile Internet Monitoring Panel of the Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL).
As can also be verified in the virtual tool Checa tu internet móvil of OSIPTEL, a slight setback in the average speed was noticed in relation to June (11.54 Mbps), due to the lower performances obtained by the four main mobile operators. Bitel and Claro showed the largest decline with 0.19 Mbps and 0.15 Mbps each. Meanwhile, the averages of Movistar and Entel decreased slightly, 0.07 Mbps and 0.05 Mbps, respectively.
In this way, the operating company Claro offered the highest average download speed for 4G networks nationwide with 12.85 Mbps, followed by Entel (11.92 Mbps), Movistar (10.11 Mbps) and Bitel (8.89 Mbps).
Tumbes recorded the fastest internet nationwide
In the analysis by regions, the Mobile Internet Monitoring Panel detected that eight regions reported a result higher than the national average and that only three showed a growth in the performance of the average speed in 4G mobile networks compared to the previous month.
Thus, Tumbes remained the region with the best performance in the download speed indicator with 12.40 Mbps, followed by Moquegua (11.98 Mbps), Ica (11.95 Mbps), Lima (11.87 Mbps) and Callao (11.77 Mbps). At the other extreme, Loreto (9.84 Mbps), Huancavelica (10.57 Mbps), San Martín (10.62 Mbps), Ayacucho (10.62 Mbps) and Ucayali (10.72 Mbps) were located.
Time of coverage obtained its best average of the year
At the national level, it was evident that users were connected to a 4G network, on average, 88.83% of the time, the best result in this indicator so far this year. Movistar (90.16%) was the operator with the longest coverage time in 4G, followed by Bitel (89.46%), Entel (89.27%) and Claro (87.32%).
The regions with the longest 4G coverage time were Tumbes (93.01%), Piura (92.01%), Ica (91.67%), Lambayeque (91.62%) and Arequipa (90.69%). Meanwhile, Amazonas (86.50%), Huancavelica (87.16%), Pasco (87.22%), Apurimac (87.30%) and Madre de Dios (87.46%) obtained the lowest performances.
The coverage time indicator allows us to know the average percentage of time in which we are within the coverage of 4G technology, which would mean access to a better browsing experience of various contents in that period.
Average latency was 81.84 ms
Regarding the latency indicator (which analyzes whether online content is accessed with greater or lesser delay), this was 81.84 milliseconds (ms) for 4G networks, which meant the second best average of the year.
By companies, Claro was the operator that reported the shortest delay time, with a latency of 78.08 milliseconds, followed by Movistar (79.46 ms), Entel (80.11 ms) and Bitel (97.65 ms).
In the review by regions, only five were below average: Lima (74.61 ms), Callao (75.08 ms), Junín (78.58 ms), Ica (79.09 ms) and Pasco (81.40 ms), while the five regions with the lowest performances in this indicator were Loreto (104.19 ms), San Martín (99.23 ms), Amazonas (96.32 ms), Madre de Dios (94.17 ms) and Cajamarca (91.98 ms).
Packet loss rate reached an average of 1.14%
Meanwhile, the rate of loss of data packets (indicator whose poor performance may cause the interruption of a data session or that we receive or send information with delays, intermittency or incomplete, in audio and videoconferences, for example), reached the national average of 1.14%, 0.02 percentage points more than the results of June (1.12%).
Like the previous month, Claro was the operating company with the best performance (0.92%), above Entel (0.95%), Movistar (1.28%) and Bitel (1.70%).
By regions, Callao (0.82%), Tumbes (0.82%), Lima (0.85%), Ica (0.89%) and Moquegua (0.89%) presented a lower rate of loss of data packets and, therefore, a better performance, while Loreto (4.07%), Cajamarca (1.74%), Huancavelica (1.71%), Amazonas (1.68%) and Ayacucho (1.67%) presented the highest values and, therefore, lower performances.
Know the results of the Mobile Internet Monitoring Panel corresponding to July by entering the following link: https://sociedadtelecom.pe/2023/08/16/panel-de-monitoreo-de-internet-movil-analisis-de-indicadores-a-nivel-departamental-julio-de-2023/
