DACH

Chapter 1 Key findings	Chapter 4 Latency
Chapter 2 Consistent quality	Chapter 5 Spectrum and technology usage
Chapter 3 Download and upload speeds	Chapter 6 Coverage

By plotting the locations where users have successfully recorded a test on a particular network, Tutela can establish a baseline for an operator’s minimum coverage. The maps produced aren’t a definitive record of every square meter of a country that is covered; rather, they serve as a proportionate measure of one operator’s coverage relative to another.

Swisscom

Sunrise

Salt

Austria

A1 has notably more coverage than the other operators, although a greater proportion of its coverage is with a 3G network. A1’s superior coverage is likely due to its minor advantage in the number of cell sites it has deployed, as well as its much more widespread deployment of 800 MHz spectrum. The low-band 800 MHz spectrum propagates better than the mid-band and high-band spectrum favoured by 3 and T-Mobile, which helps explain A1’s coverage advantage, as well as its first place in basic consistent quality.

T-Mobile

Germany

When considering both 3G and 4G, Vodafone appears to have the best coverage of all three operators, with its network particularly strong around Pomerania and Saxony. However, Telekom has the most consistent 4G deployment of any of the operators.

The most surprising coverage is that of O2: despite O2 having the highest percentage of tests run over 4G of any operator, the coverage map shows that O2 has selectively deployed its 4G network only in certain cities and regions. In places where O2 has deployed its 4G network, it utilizes the newer technology for far more of its traffic than Telekom and Vodafone, but the trade-off is that large regions of the country are left without any 4G coverage from O2.

Vodafone

Telekom

Switzerland

Austria

Germany

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