SRG’s testing mentioned that erratic voice, downlink speeds have improved
What distinction has a 12 months made in Dish Wi-fi’ community efficiency in its inaugural market? Higher voice high quality and sooner downlink speeds, in line with latest testing and evaluation from Alerts Analysis Group.
SRG first examined Dish’s community in Vegas in 2021 throughout its pre-commercial section, then once more in mid-2022—at which level it concluded that there was loads of room for enchancment, and that whereas downlink efficiency was “fairly good,” there was a big quantity of inconsistency and unpredictability in each voice efficiency and the way properly issues like service aggregation labored.
In 2023, nevertheless, with one other 12 months of community improvement and optimization beneath Dish’s belt, SRG discovered that whereas there are nonetheless “alternatives for enchancment,” Dish has each a denser community grid and a “higher implementation of downlink service aggregation” that features help for 3 element carriers. Erratic voice high quality scores that have been evident a 12 months in the past, even whereas stationary, are actually “a lot better than in 2022,” SRG mentioned—and this time, the gadgets remained constantly on Dish’s 5G SA community throughout Voice over NR drive testing, and utilizing a scanner, SRG noticed “fairly good protection throughout all of the Dish Wi-fi spectrum property.” Final 12 months, gadgets fell again to AT&T’s community throughout testing.
SRG famous that Dish’s 5G Standalone community in Vegas depends on Mavenir because the CU and DU vendor and Fujitsu because the RU vendor—though SRG doesn’t name it an “Open RAN” community per se, moderately a “multi-vendor RAN deployment … as deployed by DISH Wi-fi.”
The testing agency used two Motorola edge+ smartphones and two Samsung Galaxy A23 smartphones to gather knowledge, together with a view of the applying layer and chipset efficiency knowledge.
SRG mentioned that higher downlink efficiency was the “clear spotlight with drastically improved efficiency” in comparison with final 12 months’s testing. “On a number of events we needed to persuade ourselves the noticed efficiency was actual,” the testing and consulting agency mentioned.
Nonetheless, there stays room for enchancment within the greenfield community, each in voice high quality and in knowledge efficiency, Alerts Analysis mentioned. Uplink efficiency in knowledge checks was “subpar” and Dish’s VoNR didn’t carry out fairly as properly T-Cell US’ 5G SA community and its implementation of VoNR in the identical market—and that was with a really frivolously loaded community, in line with SRG’s evaluation.
Extra particulars from SRG right here.
