H OpenSignal conducted a study found that WiFi connections lag far behind mobile network connections. The survey was conducted in 33 countries, including Greece.
Indicative the countries where the survey was conducted it's from Australia, where the cellular speed is 13Mbps faster than Wi-Fi, France, where it was 2,5Mbps faster. In Greece the mobile network is 10,6 Mbps faster than the fastest a WiFi Hotspot can provide. In contrast, in Singapore, Hong Kong, and the US, Wi-Fi connections were much faster than mobile (34 Mbps, 38 Mbps, and 25 Mbps respectively).
Ian Fogg, vice president at OpenSignal, urged mobile networks And the platforms smartphones to reconsider some basic assumptions. Currently, a phone "falls back" to a Wi-Fi network whenever it can, assuming that this provides the user with a superior connection to Internet. But more and more, things are different. When the devices of a WiFi network are multiplied, they will give the users a worse experience, always in relation to the corresponding increase of devices in the mobile network.
And all this while we are waiting for the 5G network.
