Telecommunications Are mobile networks under strain?

With people spending much more time at home and engaging in bandwidth-intensive activities like video streaming and gaming, stress on mobile networks is growing.

03 Apr 2020
  • Mumbai is seeing signs of strain on its mobile infrastructure, with a large increase in latency.
  • New York has also seen an uptick.
  • In London, however, latency has been relatively flat. 
  • This dataset shows signal strain in 10 cities around the world. 
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Mobile Performance in Select Cities - Latency (lower is better)

Source: UBS Evidence Lab, Ookla

Note: Latency is the time it takes to send information over a mobile or broadband network, usually measured in milliseconds