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ARTICLE · 05 NOVEMBER 2012

Mobile Technologies Index Device Connectivity Speed: One Half Of An Equation

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From the user’s perspective, the mobile experience starts with the speed at which the device receives data and applications.

CanadaMedia, Telecoms, IT, Entertainment

Article by Chris Dulny, Evan Kelly, Darren Henderson, Richard Jhang, Tony Balasubramanian and Bali Minhas

From the user's perspective, the mobile experience starts with the speed at which the device receives data and applications. That speed is, of course, the combined result of the speed capability of the modem technology inside the device, which is fixed, and the speed capability of the infrastructure, which can vary.

Thus, wireless speed is a complicated component to measure. So complicated, in fact, that we break it into two components, each with its own metric, in the PwC Mobile Technologies Index:

  • Device connectivity speed in Megabits per second per dollar (Mbps/$)

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