{"id":249551,"date":"2018-02-24T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T08:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=249551"},"modified":"2018-02-24T10:32:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T08:32:44","slug":"mtns-big-network-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/249551-mtns-big-network-improvements.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN&#8217;s big network improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has significantly improved the customer experience on its network, in terms of its overall voice quality and data speed metrics.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Zoltan Miklos, the GM for engineering at MTN, who was speaking at the MyBroadband Underground Mobile Networking conference.<\/p>\n<p>MTN&#8217;s latest customer experience improvement statistics come after the network\u00a0announced it would have <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/240546-mtns-big-network-build-plans.html\">more 3G sites than 2G sites<\/a><\/strong> for the first time at the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2017, MTN planned to have\u00a010,954 2G sites, 11,150 3G sites, and 7,920 LTE sites online.<\/p>\n<p>MTN&#8217;s network improvements have paid off, with Miklos revealing the following year-on-year comparisons:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Voice quality<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2G drop-call rate:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>-26%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>3G drop-call rate:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>-39%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Data speed<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>3G download speed:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>+21%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>LTE download speed:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>+6%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Data volume<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>3G data volume:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>+29%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>LTE data volume:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>+123%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miklos said the 4G\/LTE data volume statistics are particularly significant, due to the limited spectrum available to mobile networks offering LTE services.<\/p>\n<p>He said it becomes challenging to ensure a great customer experience when data volumes increase on a network and there are spectrum barriers to increasing capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The ability of a network to offer high-quality data services while consumption\u00a0is increasing must therefore be seen for the achievement it is.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/243788-mtn-hits-20gbps-in-5g-trial.html\">MTN hits 20Gbps in 5G trial<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has significantly improved the customer experience on its network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":141928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[39825,35,42,685],"class_list":["post-249551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-giovanni-chiarelli","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-zoltan-miklos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249981,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249551\/revisions\/249981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}