# Mobile Broadband Performance Evaluation: Analysis of National Reports
## 5 Discussion and Conclusions
While blanket coverage indirectly guarantees population coverage, it is not feasible for countries with a wide geographical area. Instead, nations should improve the percentage of population covered by all MNOs, as it is very low compared to the percentage of the population by at least one MNO. Furthermore, indoor, outdoor, rural, and urban coverage evaluations with all MNOs need to be investigated for better insights. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l l l l l l} \hline \hline  & **On Field** & **MNO** & **Survey** & **3 rd Party** & **Prediction** & **Stat.** \\ \hline Australia & & & X & & & X \\ France & & X & & X & & X \\ Germany & & X & X & & & X \\ Korea & X & X & X & X & & X \\ Japan & & X & X & & & \\ Singapore & X & & X & & & \\ UK & & X & & & X & \\ US & & & X & X & & X \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: Data-obtaining strategies. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l l l} \hline \hline  & **Total** & **Major MNOs** \\ \hline Australia & 3 & Telstra, Vodafone, and Optus \\ France & 4 & Bouygues, Free, Orange, and SFR \\ Germany & 3 & Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG), Vodafone, and Telefonica Germany \\ Korea & 3 & SK, KT, LG U+ \\ Japan & 3 & NTT DOCOMO, KDDI, and SoftBank \\ Singapore & 3 & Singlet, MI, and StarHub \\ UK & 4 & EE, O2, Three, and Vodafone \\ US & 4 & Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 3: Mobile network operators per country. Finally, here are some of the plans, to improve mobile broadband services, forwarded from surveyed countries:  
* Universal fund to improve coverage in rural areas;
* Push MNOs to share infrastructure in rural areas to improve coverage;
* Include and validate third party evaluation to improve quality assessment;
* Create penalties for MNOs that does not deliver on promised quality;
* Create consumer protection code/document;
* Demand MNOs to build future proof infrastructure;
* Installing more base stations in and around transportation facilities. During this investigation, it was observed that each country has its own format for evaluating the performance of mobile broadband services. This could be due to the various metrics available to evaluate the service and the choice made by the regulators. However, some countries such as Germany and Japan were looking to evaluate mobile broadband services in terms of economic metrics, which conforms to the evaluation methods of other infrastructures. However, this could be avoided in future evaluations, since organizations such as BEREC of EU are working in unified metrics. The characteristics of 5G, discussed above, could further complicate the process of determining unified metrics. \begin{table}
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**Metrics** & **Australia** & **France** & **Germany** & **Korea** & **Japan** & **Singapore** & **UK** & **US** \\ \hline Churn & & & & & & & & & X \\ Subscribers & X & X & X & X & X & X & X & X \\ Speed & Down. & & X & & X & & & X & X \\ Up. & & X & & & X & & & X & \\ Video SR & & & X & & & & X & \\ Voice SR & & & X & & & X & & X & \\ Web SR & & & X & & & & & X & \\ Voice DR & & & & & & & X & & \\ Voice/Year & & & & X & & X & & & \\ Data/year & & & X & & & X & & & \\ Satisfaction & X & & & & & & & & \\ Post. vs. Pre. & X & & & & & X & & & \\ Revenue & X & & & X & & X & & & \\ Others & X & & X & X & X & X & X & X & X & X \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 6: Other types of metrics to evaluate mobile broadband.