H OpenSignal conducted a study where he found that WiFi connections lag far behind speed from mobile network connections. The research was done in 33 countries including Greece.
Indicative the countries where the survey was conducted is from Australia, where the cellular speed is 13Mbps faster than Wi-Fi, the France, where it was 2,5Mbps faster. In Greece the mobile network is 10,6 Mbps faster than the fastest 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 them cell phones networks and smartphone platforms to reconsider some basic assumptions. Currently, a phone "falls back" to a Wi-Fi network whenever it can, assuming it provides the user with a superior internet connection. But increasingly, things are different. When the devices of a WiFi network multiply they will give 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.
