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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​
UNIVERSAL SERVICE DIRECTIVE
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…
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REGULATORY ACTS FOR THE QoS REQUIREMENTS
• 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.
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THE “DIGITAL DIVIDEND” AUCTION
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
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Progress in 4G networks development
Activities of Latvian operators developing the 4G networks
2012
2013
2014
2015
• «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons» - some places in largest cities and in capital Riga
1,8 GHz
• «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons» - development of the LTE network in some places
around the country
• «Tele2» - some places in capital Riga
• «Latvijas Mobilais Telefons» - active development of the LTE network
• «Tele2» - active development of the LTE network
+2,6 GHz
• «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+)
+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
Measurement
System web page
Measurement System web
server and measurement
software
Measurement initialization
Network
termination
point
IP Network
Terminal
equipment/
Test computer
ITEST
Latvian
QoS measurement
Internet
server
Exchange Point
Measurement data flow – test packets
Measurement software engine supported by Visualware Inc.
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Internet services coverage by technologies 2014
DATA TRANSMISSION SERVICES AVAILABILITY BY TECHNOLOGIES* (%)
100%
[VĒRTĪBA]
90%
80%
[VĒRTĪBA]
[VĒRTĪBA]
70%
3G
2G
[VĒRTĪBA]
60%
4G
50%
40%
30%
[VĒRTĪBA]
20%
10%
[VĒRTĪBA]
[VĒRTĪBA]
[VĒRTĪBA]
0%
BITE Latvija
LMT
Tele2
*QoS regular measurements data 31DEC2014
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Internet services coverage by technologies 2015
DATA TRANSMISSION SERVICES AVAILABILITY BY TECHNOLOGIES* (%)
100%
4G
[VĒRTĪBA]
90%
[VĒRTĪBA]
[VĒRTĪBA]
3G
80%
70%
2G
60%
50%
[VĒRTĪBA]
40%
[VĒRTĪBA]
30%
20%
[VĒRTĪBA]
10%
[VĒRTĪBA]
0%
BITE Latvija
[VĒRTĪBA]
[VĒRTĪBA]
LMT
Tele2
*QoS regular measurements data 30SEP2015
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Data transmission speed values
AVERAGE DOWNLOAD SPEED* (Mbps)
24.65
25.00
2G
21.02
20.00
3G
15.82
15.00
4G
10.00
6.38
5.57
5.00
4.23
0.97
0.16
0.14
0.00
Bite Latvija
LMT
Tele2
*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
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THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION
Elmars Lipenbergs
@-mail: [email protected]
Regional Expert Workshop for Europe on “New Issues in QoS Measuring and
Monitoring”, 25-26 November 2015, Bologna, Italy