Data rate measures for 4G networks in Albania

Abstract

Companies of mobile telephony operate in a highly competitive market. Subscribers, with the possibilities given to them to change the operators, can easily change network based on the services offered to them. Due to this, all mobile operators which aim to grow and establish a better position in the market they operate, are involved permanently in offering better services for their current and pretended subscribers. The quality, the speed and all related values to data offered are fields which the operators in Albania aim to improve. From 4 Mobile Operators in Albania, 3 of them offer 4G LTE data service. This paper focus on measuring how real the data values declared by them are and how good is the quality of 4G LTE service offered. Through this paper we will discuss over different measures made in Tirana city related to rate fluctuation of uplink and downlink throughput of data service. The measures are located in 6 different points in Tirana city, which are chosen based on the traffic rate. Measures (made at the same day and time for all the operators in order to have equality) are realized through a Huawei LTE modem for FTP DL/UL.