Methodology

To determine Speedtest Awards winners for mobile networks, we use results from “modern devices” to

aid in the analysis of a mobile user’s average speeds. "Modern Devices" results include all mobile tests,

regardless of connection technology used, as long as they were taken on devices that are identified as

being capable of achieving the fastest speeds available in a country. Each top carrier accounts for at

least 3% of the sample size in the geographic area.

RUSSIA’SFASTESTMOBILE

NETWORK

MEGAFON

YOTA

MTS

TELE2

BEELINE

Mobile Tests Taken Q2-Q3 2017

25.04

22.50

16.40

13.54

11.88

9.93

9.82

6.50

5.34

5.81

Carrier NameDownload

MbpsUpload

Mbps

54

55

53

60

53

LatencyMS

1,349,153

997,163

1,657,552

930,912

1,367,291

TestCount

827,454

577,772

1,036,120

550,965

823,195

SampleCount

MegaFon

Yota

MTS

Tele2

Beeline

(Average speeds for LTE-capable devices)

Russia’s Fastest Mobile Network(Average speeds for LTE-capable devices)

Mbps UploadDownload

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

MegaFon

Yota

MTS

Tele2

Beeline

25.049.93

6.50

5.34

13.54

11.885.81

9.82

16.40

22.50

Russia’s Mobile Internet Speeds

04-17 05-17 06-17 07-17 08-17 09-17

15.95

Download Upload

DATE

Country Stats

TEST COUNT:

SAMPLE COUNT:

DEVICE COUNT:

7,950,986

4,700,369

1,499,425

10

12

14

6

8

16

18

20

6.88

(Average speeds for all mobile results)

Mbps

MegaFon

Yota

MTS

Tele2

Beeline

23.31

21.08

15.61

12.82

11.13

14.83

13.77

11.46

10.41

7.77

61.17

54.85

37.62

28.62

28.15

2.41

1.91

1.91

1.85

0.81

5.01

4.75

4.04

3.17

3.34

27.86

27.33

16.73

14.77

15.49

0.70

0.72

0.50

0.52

0.45

9.65

9.39

6.33

5.41

5.65

Carrier Name 90th

Percentile50th

Percentile10th

Percentile

UploadTrimean

DownloadTrimean

90thPercentile

50thPercentile

10thPercentile

Percentiles are Mbps

How Speed Score Works

The Speedtest Awards for top providers in speed are determined using a Speed Score that

incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed

performance (90% of the final Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 10%

to upload speed). The Speed Score uses a modified trimean to demonstrate the download and

upload speeds that are available across a provider’s network. We take speeds from the 10th

percentile, 50th percentile (also known as the median), and 90th percentile, and combine them in a

weighted average using a 1:2:1 ratio, respectively. We place the most emphasis on the download

speeds and median speeds as those represent what most network providers’ customers will

experience on a day-to-day basis.

MegaFon

Yota

MTS

Tele2

Beeline

23.31

21.08

15.61

12.82

11.13

9.65

9.39

6.33

5.41

5.65

Carrier NameDownload

TrimeanUpload

Trimean SPEED SCORE

Speed Score

0 5 10 15 20 25

21.95

19.91

14.68

12.08

10.58

MegaFon Q2-Q3 Performance

Ookla compared user-initiated tests taken on the Speedtest iOS and Android mobile apps from all

the major mobile carriers in Russia over the award period to determine who was the fastest. Based

on our data from Q2-Q3 2017, MegaFon achieved a Speed Score of 21.95 providing faster average

speeds to their users than the other major providers in Russia with average download speeds of

25.04 Mbps and average upload speeds of 9.93 Mbps on LTE-capable devices.

Our Q2-Q3 2017 results are in for Russia and we have called MegaFon as the winner of the Speedtest Award for fastest mobile network speeds.

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