2017% 1 Summary%% ! Price! is! not! the! only! dimension! that! interests! broadband! users,! regulators! and! policy! makers.! In! July! /! August! 2017! LIRNEasia! together! with! its! partners! Myanmar! ICT! for! Development! Organization! (MIDO)! conducted!a!study!to!test!the!quality!of!mobile!broadband.!A!crowd]sourced!methodology!was!adopted! and!deployed!via!a!Facebook!campaign!#BetterInternet,!targeting!Internet!users!in!Myanmar.!Over!9,000! tests!were!conducted!using!the!Netradar!app,!covering!all!states!and!all!operators!in!Myanmar.! ! The!app!provides!a!range!of!data!for!each!test!instance.!This!report!provides!data!obtained!for!throughput! and!latency.! ! ] Throughput,! defined! by! the! ITU! as! “an! amount! of! user! information! transferred! in! a! period! of! time”! (ITU]T! X.641! (97),! 6.3.3.16),! more! commonly! referred! to! as! download! or! upload! speeds! (unit!of!analysis:!Mbps).! ] Latency,! defined! by! the! ITU! as! “…! transmission! delay! for! FEC! (Forwarding! Equivalence! Class)! encoding,! decoding,! interleaving! and! de]interleaving”! (ITU]T! G.972! (04),! 3025)! is! also! know! as! Round! Trip! Time! (RTT).! In! essence! is! the! time! taken! for! packet! to! traverse! the! Internet! to! the! destination!server!and!reach!the!client!(unit!of!analysis:!ms).! ! The!country]wide!measurements!represent!the!three!major!mobile!operators,!MPT,!Ooredoo!and!Telenor,! through! all! days! of! the! work! and! at! all! hours,! thus! providing! perspective! on! peak! uses.! The! app! also! captured! the! technology! of! the! network! the! devices! connected! to! at! the! time! the! network! diagnostics! were!being!carried!out,!inter!alia.! ! Key!observations:! ] Over!50!percent!of!the!data!represented!users!on!4G/LTE!networks! ] Poor! latency! even! in! instances! where! throughput! (download! speed! and! upload! speed)! was! impressive! ] High! volatility! in! latency! and! throughput;! i.e.! tremendous! range! between! the! minimum! and! maximum!results!observed! ] Eight! percent! of! the! data! records! used! in! the! study! indicated! problems! such! as! network! unavailability!and!packet!loss!that!also!correspond!to!poor!quality.! ! ! LIRNEasia!has!been!benchmarking!broadband!quality!of!service!experience!in!cities!across!South!Asia!and! South!East!Asia!since!2008.!Please!refer!to!our!past!work!here.!! ! ! ! ! ! ! % ! ! 3