Vodafone’s GigaNetwork is the best mobile network in Italy, at least according to the results that Altroconsumo carried out with its own tests on download and upload speed but also internet browsing and video streaming. Vodafone, in fact, obtained the highest average score in the latest national ranking of ” Che Banda ”, the Altroconsumo app, which analyzed the performance of the main operators on 3G, 4G and 5G networks (where present). For the third year in a row, Vodafone’s GigaNetwork confirms the best network in Italy according to Altroconsumo with WindTre now closer, always second, but capable of overtaking even TIM.

Vodafone in first place: here is the ranking

The overall judgment, deriving from the results of the 4 speed and quality tests , for the twelve months of 2020 , tells us that the ranking of operators sees Vodafone with 18. 988 always point to first place, followed by WindTre (18. 269) that overrides TIM (16.989) is Iliad (15. 0 16), which remains in the rear with an overall score of 14. 897 points. In this case, the score is attributed to each operator and is the total that the algorithm calculates taking into account the results obtained in all the tests (download speed, upload speed, internet browsing and movie viewing). Specifically, it is an index given by the ratio between the two speed tests (download and upload calculated in kbit / s) and the two quality tests (calculated as a percentage of viewing and browsing without delays).

Looking at all the other data that the app CheBanda di Altroconsumo is known as the quality worsened during the months of lockdown and then to have a recovery, until September, and a subsequent new decline with a slight downward trend. This means that the quality of the network travels simultaneously with the trend of the restrictive measures implemented to contain the infections and the reasons can be substantially two:

• A greater use of the mobile network by everyone with a consequent increase in traffic which affects the speed of the network itself.
• Greater use of the mobile network indoors where, compared to open places, there are worse results in terms of performance.

On the other hand, looking at the data regarding the download speed, you immediately notice that there is a perfect correlation between the overall judgment and the download speed : this pe because the other parameters involved in the formula to obtain the overall judgment (upload speed, viewing quality and browsing quality) do not vary so widely from operator to operator.

New algorithm to calculate the performance of the last ones 12 months:

• Download speed . The time required to download a file of a certain size is calculated.
• Upload speed . The time required to send a file of a certain size is calculated.
• Video viewing quality . With this test it is possible to verify the time needed to start the reproduction of a video and its possible interruptions or errors.
• Quality of browsing on websites . With the test it is possible to verify the opening of a list of internet pages in an integrated browser by evaluating whether the page opens correctly or not and the time required.