The fact that Wi-Fi is slower in communication speed than carrier's LTE radio network is highlighting

By mista stagga lee

When I was watching YouTube and others on a smartphone, it was often said that "if you are connected to Wi-Fi is stable, communication will be stable", but from the report summarizing the communication situation all over the world no longer is Wi-Fi It is becoming clear that the speed is slower than 4G LTE communication network.

Mobile networks are killing Wi-Fi for speed around the world • The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/23/mobile_v_wifi_speed_report/

This report announced by OpenSignal that users measure and share the communication speed status of mobile phone base stations and Wi - Fi spots with applications. Based on data gathered from about 7.8 million devices in 33 countries, the communication network of carriers has dramatically speeded up, catching up with Wi - Fi, and the situation overtaking becomes apparent It is.

(PDF) Mobile networks are killing Wi-Fi for speed around the world • The Register

The following two graphs show the speed situation for each country. The graph on the left shows the speed of the mobile line (orange) and the speed of the Wi-Fi (blue), but the situation where the orange color in all countries exceeds the blue graph. In Australia where mobile circuit speed is fastest, a value of 34.6 Mbps is striking. Moreover, the graph on the right shows the speed difference between the mobile line and Wi-Fi, showing that there is a maximum of 13.0 Mbps (Australia) openings.

This survey is based on data measured by users who use the OpenSignal application instead of specific Wi - Fi spots, and it is unknown number of Wi - Fi spots and carriers all over the world It is based on communication network data. The target was data of 63 32 235 678 samples measured during the period from August 5, 2018 to November 3, 2018.

This situation is due to the dramatic improvement in the speed of mobile communication networks due to the spread of 4G communication in each country. If you take out only LTE communication and compare the speed difference with Wi-Fi, you can see that the speed difference of 25 Mbps is occurring in Lebanon as follows.

This is a graph plotting the speed of the mobile communication network (vertical axis) and the speed of Wi-Fi (horizontal axis). In this graph, only downlink speed (download speed) is targeted, but you can see that each country is distributed in a white area penetrating the center of both axes.

Wi - Fi should have clearly demonstrated superiority when the mobile line is 2G / 3G standard, but the mobile communication environment has dramatically improved in each country along with the rise of LTE communication. Furthermore, as the spread of 5G communication begins, this difference is expected to further expand.