LONDON, UK – Canada ranks within the top 25 countries for 4G availability and speed, according to a new report by OpenSignal.
The State of LTE used some 17 billion measurements collected from 500,687 OpenSignal 4G users between July 1 – September 30, 2016 to see how 4G networks in 78 countries stack up. The report found that download speeds are approaching 50 Mbps in the most advanced 4G countries, and that 3G is receding into the background as a source for data connections in many places.
The fastest 4G countries in the world have download speeds greater than 30 Mbps, and the two fastest, Singapore and South Korea, average greater than 45 Mbps, continues the report. It ranked Canada as having an average download connection speed of 26.55 Mbps, ahead of the U.S. with 13.03 Mbps, noting that, in general, the countries with the fastest speeds tend to be the ones that have built LTE-Advanced networks and have a large proportion of LTE-Advanced capable devices.
Though LTE has been around for half a decade, it still hasn’t gained the reach of 3G, continues the report. Only in 11 countries was an LTE signal found to be available more than 80% of the time. Canada’s 4G availability was ranked at 75.42%, behind the U.S. with 81.30%. South Korea and Japan were tops with 95.71% and 92.03%, respectively.
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