H OpenSignal conducted a study where he found that the connections WiFi lags far behind mobile network connections in speed. The research was done 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 smartphone platforms to rethink 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 on the internet. 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.