By akademiotoelektronik, 17/07/2022

The real 5G speeds of Free Mobile in Paris

Our partner RNC Mobile publishes its first 5G speed observatory in Paris.This allows you to have an overview of the performance offered by the 5G network of Free Mobile.

No, free mobile 4G is not faster than its 5G.Following the publication of the barometer 01net.com/qosi not sparing Free Mobile on 5G flows in the capital, the RNC Mobile team questions the latter's conclusions in its own flow observatory in Paris.Xavier Niel's operator would offer flows much higher than 36.4 Mbits/s on average displayed in the Qosi study.

According to the RNCMobile method which is based on 851 measures, the Parisian situation (light blue) very closely sticks to the national situation (dark blue) for the lowest flow measures (less than 75 Mbps: 25% of testsin both cases).

On the other hand, as soon as you head to the median (50% of the tests), the flow rate goes from 165.5mbps in national to 261mbps in Paris.This development reflects the largest proportion of sites equipped with 3.5GHz in Paris (37% technically operational: 75 on 202 sites) at 10/09/2021 than in the region (13.7%: 1575 on 11,4501 sites) The progression isThus a factor of 1.58 between the 2.

Beyond the median, the third quartile (75% of the lowest tests) goes from 301.1 to 447.4 Mbps, a difference of almost 150 Mbps.For the best speedtes (10% of cases), the threshold goes from 478 to 670 Mbps, a difference of nearly 200 Mbps.

Another lighting also makes it possible to visualize the difference in situation in Paris and the whole of the metropolis by adopting a cutting by phase.

Stroke tests greater than 400 Mbps (involving the presence of the 3.5GHz band on the measured site) go from 16.5% to 31%.The base of the speedtes collected by the RNCMobile community, therefore confirms, the level of progression announced by Free Mobile.According to RNCMobile, its results formally contradict the conclusions of certain media according to which it only develops few sites equipped with 3.5GHz frequency.

The 851 measures 5G relate to 128 different sites and were carried out by around fifty users of the RNCMobile application.The measures are made in multi-thread (from 4 to 20 threads) unlike certain studies that use mono-thread.Two-thirds of the tests relate to a period of 10 seconds.

For those interested, the full observatory is available at this address.