ProviderTotal Locations

ScannedGeneral

Availability 4G Availability

STC 576,318 99.80% 68.50%

Zain 337,635 99.70% 72.90%

Mobily 355,919 99.80% 63.90%

Carrier ScansCoverage

Score

STC 174,797,540 771

Zain 59,020,851 463

Mobily 83,129,398 463

Ookla’s Coverage Metrics describe the user’s mobile experience with their cellular network. Coverage Score incorporates a measure of each provider’s availability and footprint within the country. See next page for more detail.

Saudi Arabia Q1-Q2 2019STC is Saudi Arabia’s Speedtest Awards™ Winner for best mobile coverage. To win this award, STC achieved a Coverage Score of 771. There were a total of 1,327,455 locations scanned within the country. Of the scans from STC subscribers, 99.80% had availability and 68.50% had 4G availability.

Best Mobile Coverage Award

Coverage Score

771 Places that showed general and 4G availability within Saudi Arabia.STC’s General and 4G Availability

Scan Count Device Count

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MethodologyFor more information on our methodology visit Speedtest.net/Awards

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Best Mobile Coverage Award Saudi Arabia Q1-Q2 2019

Coverage Maps

Ookla’s Coverage Score captures both the number of locations in which an operator offers service (its footprint) and the quality of service in each location. These features are determined using data from coverage scans, which capture the real-time network conditions of Android Speedtest users across the globe. An operator’s footprint is the fraction of locations within a given market where a device has access to service. Each location is assigned a score based equally on the availability of general and 4G service. For example, if a provider offered non-4G service in a location, that location would receive a score of 1/2. The overall Coverage Score for an operator is its footprint multiplied by the average quality score across its observed locations. Further, a multiplier is applied to the Coverage Score so that it is scaled from 0 to 1000 to avoid confusion that it could represent the percentage of an area or population with coverage. To minimize the impact of misconfigured or under-performing devices, we require coverage scans from at least two devices at each location.

How Coverage Score Works

Places that showed general and 4G availability within the country.

Places that showed general and 4G availability within the country.

Zain’s General and 4G Availability Mobily’s General and 4G Availability

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