Fastest Mobile Award

Brazil Q1-Q2 2018

Claro is Brazil’s Speedtest® Awards Winner for mobile network
speed. To win this award, Claro achieved a Speed Score™ of
24.07, with average speeds of 26.71 Mbps for download and
9.20 Mbps for upload.

Speed Score Brazil’s Mobile Tests On LTE-capable Devices

Ookla® compared user-initiated tests taken on the Speedtest iOS and Android
mobile apps from all the major mobile carriers in Brazil during the award

24.07 period to determine who showed the fastest mobile network speeds.

Carrier Test
Count
Speed
Score

Claro 901,074 24.07

Vivo 1,234,293 16.37

TIM 971,984 13.32

Oi 358,214 10.66

Nextel 160,235 8.93

Speed Score incorporates a

measure of each provider’s
download and upload speed to
rank network speed performance.
See next page for more detail.

Market Statistics

Test Count Average Download Speed: Average Upload Speed: Average Latency:

3,673,813 18.18 Mbps 7.51 Mbps 63 ms

Unique Devices Mbps Mbps ms

892,674

iPhone 7 50,833 Claro 26.71 Claro 9.20 Claro 68

iPhone 6 32,738 Vivo 18.28 Vivo 7.79 Vivo 67

Galaxy J7 Prime 32,401 TIM 14.77 TIM 7.07 TIM 48

Galaxy J5 (2016) 31,149 Oi 11.65 Oi 5.14 Oi 84

iPhone 6s 29,850 Nextel 9.95 Nextel 5.10 Nextel 51

 Fastest Mobile Award Brazil Q1-Q2 2018

How Speed Score Works

When analyzing fastest operators, Ookla solely considers top carriers (all carriers with 3% or more of total
test samples in the market for the period). We then determine the fastest carrier using Speed Score which
incorporates a measure of each provider’s download and upload speed to rank network speed performance
(90% of the final Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 10% to upload speed). The
Speed Score uses a modified trimean to demonstrate the download and upload speeds that are available
across a provider’s network. We take speeds from the 10th percentile, 50th percentile (also known as the
median), and 90th percentile, and combine them in a weighted average using a 1:2:1 ratio, respectively. We
place the most emphasis on the download speeds and median speeds as those represent what most network
providers’ customers will experience on a day-to-day basis.

Download 90th 50th 10th Upload 90th 50th 10th

Carrier Name Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile Trimean Percentile Percentile Percentile

Claro 25.76 57.63 21.01 3.37 8.92 21.25 6.74 0.94

Vivo 17.38 41.13 13.19 2.02 7.33 18.79 4.92 0.70

TIM 14.04 30.52 11.72 2.22 6.81 15.50 5.44 0.87

Oi 11.31 26.06 8.83 1.49 4.91 13.04 3.10 0.42

Nextel 9.37 22.29 7.15 0.91 4.95 13.26 3.06 0.42

City Network Speeds

City Carrier Speed Score Mbps Mbps

Rio de Janeiro Claro 26.03 28.75 10.14

Vivo 24.07 26.40 10.56

TIM 19.36 21.31 10.58

Oi 13.52 14.94 5.12

Nextel 8.50 9.30 4.96

São Paulo Claro 24.27 26.95 9.65

Vivo 16.05 17.94 8.91

TIM 15.62 17.38 7.81

Nextel 12.65 13.69 7.58

Oi 10.63 11.63 5.65

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Methodology
For more information on our methodology visit Speedtest.net/Awards