QoS Monitoring and Quality of 4G Services in Latvia

Elmars Lipenbergs Head of Quality of Service division, Electronic Communications and Post Department, Public Utilities Commission of Latvia

Regional Expert Workshop for Europe on “New Issues in QoS Measuring and Monitoring”, 25-26 November 2015, Bologna, Italy

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UNIVERSAL SERVICE DIRECTIVE Article 22.2 National regulatory

authorities may specify, inter alia, the quality of service parameters to

be measured and the content, form and manner of the information to

be published, including possible quality certification mechanisms, in

order to ensure that end-users, including disabled end-users, have

access to comprehensive, comparable, reliable and user-friendly

information…

UNIVERSAL SERVICE DIRECTIVE

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• Regulations Regarding Quality Requirements of Electronic Communications Services, Submission and Publishing of Quality Reports;

• Quality Measurement Methodology of Electronic Communications Services;

• Regulations Regarding the General Authorisation.

REGULATORY ACTS FOR THE QoS REQUIREMENTS

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The European Union member states intend to make this band of auctioned frequencies available for broadband mobile communications to provide Internet access services, especially in rural areas, after switching to digital television

• The rights to commercially use 791.0 MHz – 821.0 MHz/832.0

MHz – 862.0 MHz bands of radio spectrum in the Republic of Latvia were offered to three auction winners. Each auction winner was granted the rights to commercially use only one part of the auctioned radio spectrum in the Republic of Latvia for 18 years from July 1, 2015

THE “DIGITAL DIVIDEND” AUCTION

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Activities of Latvian operators developing the 4G networks

Progress in 4G networks development

2012 • «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons» - some places in largest cities and in capital Riga

2013

• «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons» - development of the LTE network in some places around the country

• «Tele2» - some places in capital Riga

2014

• «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons» - active development of the LTE network

• «Tele2» - active development of the LTE network

2015

• «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons» - continuing development of the LTE network

• «Tele2» - active development of the LTE network

• «BITE Latvija» - some places in capital Riga and around the Riga and some places in largest cities (LTE+)

1,8 GHz

+2,6 GHz

+DD 800 MHz

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4G coverage map 2013 – «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons»

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4G coverage map 2015 – «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons»

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4G coverage map 2015 – «Tele2»

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4G coverage map 2015 – «BITE Latvija»

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ITEST measurement principles

IP Network

Terminal

equipment/

Test computer

ITEST

QoS measurement

server

Measurement System web

server and measurement

software

Measurement

System web pageMeasurement initialization

Measurement data flow – test packets

Network

termination

point

Latvian

Internet

Exchange Point

Measurement software engine supported by Visualware Inc.

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Internet services coverage by technologies 2014

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DATA TRANSMISSION SERVICES AVAILABILITY BY TECHNOLOGIES* (%)

*QoS regular measurements data 31DEC2014

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Internet services coverage by technologies 2015

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DATA TRANSMISSION SERVICES AVAILABILITY BY TECHNOLOGIES* (%)

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*QoS regular measurements data 30SEP2015

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Data transmission speed values

0.97 0.16 0.14

6.38

4.23

5.57

24.65

21.02

15.82

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Bite Latvija LMT Tele2

AVERAGE DOWNLOAD SPEED* (Mbps)

2G

3G

4G

*QoS regular measurements data 30SEP2015

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Internet monitoring measurements* made by SPRK

*SPRK QoS measurements data 2015

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Internet measurements* places made by SPRK across country in 2015

*QoS regular measurements data 31OKT2015

THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION

Elmars Lipenbergs @-mail: elmars.lipenbergs@sprk.gov.lv

Regional Expert Workshop for Europe on “New Issues in QoS Measuring and Monitoring”, 25-26 November 2015, Bologna, Italy