SRG’s testing mentioned that erratic voice, downlink speeds have improved

What distinction has a 12 months made in Dish Wi-fi’ community efficiency in its inaugural market? Higher voice high quality and sooner downlink speeds, in keeping with current testing and evaluation from Alerts Analysis Group.

SRG first examined Dish’s community in Vegas in 2021 throughout its pre-commercial section, then once more in mid-2022—at which level it concluded that there was loads of room for enchancment, and that whereas downlink efficiency was “moderately good,” there was a big quantity of inconsistency and unpredictability in each voice efficiency and the way properly issues like provider aggregation labored.

In 2023, nonetheless, with one other 12 months of community growth and optimization below Dish’s belt, SRG discovered that whereas there are nonetheless “alternatives for enchancment,” Dish has each a denser community grid and a “higher implementation of downlink provider aggregation” that features help for 3 element carriers. Erratic voice high quality scores that had been evident a 12 months in the past, even whereas stationary, are actually “a lot better than in 2022,” SRG mentioned—and this time, the gadgets remained constantly on Dish’s 5G SA community throughout Voice over NR drive testing, and utilizing a scanner, SRG noticed “fairly good protection throughout all of the Dish Wi-fi spectrum property.” Final 12 months, gadgets fell again to AT&T’s community throughout testing.

SRG famous that Dish’s 5G Standalone community in Vegas depends on Mavenir because the CU and DU vendor and Fujitsu because the RU vendor—though SRG doesn’t name it an “Open RAN” community per se, relatively a “multi-vendor RAN deployment … as deployed by DISH Wi-fi.”

The testing agency used two Motorola edge+ smartphones and two Samsung Galaxy A23 smartphones to gather information, together with a view of the appliance layer and chipset efficiency information.

SRG mentioned that higher downlink efficiency was the “clear spotlight with drastically improved efficiency” in comparison with final 12 months’s testing. “On just a few events we needed to persuade ourselves the noticed efficiency was actual,” the testing and consulting agency mentioned.

Nonetheless, there stays room for enchancment within the greenfield community, each in voice high quality and in information efficiency, Alerts Analysis mentioned. Uplink efficiency in information exams was “subpar” and Dish’s VoNR didn’t carry out fairly as properly T-Cell US’ 5G SA community and its implementation of VoNR in the identical market—and that was with a really evenly loaded community, in keeping with SRG’s evaluation.

Extra particulars from SRG right here.