ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has conducted a nationwide mobile Quality of Service (QoS) benchmarking test in different cities, towns and roads throughout Pakistan to assess the quality and performance of Pakistan’s mobile networks in line with the latest Network Performance Score (NPS) methodology.
A total of 10 cities, four towns and 18 motorways, highways, roads were surveyed in February and March and around 2,600 voice calls and 26,000 data tests were performed, while testing the networks with devices operating in 4G mode, said a news release.
The QoS test covered an area, including cities, towns and roads of approximately 3,570 kilometres.
NPS is a harmonised and integrative scoring methodology. It enables telecom regulators to compare and assess the quality of all mobile networks based on international standard KPIs. Using this systematic mobile network benchmarking methodology, PTA has gained valuable insights about the performance of each mobile network operator.