State-owned telco Telkomsel comfortably beat out five other major mobile internet providers in Indonesia when it comes to connection speed, according to a recent speed test.
France-based nPerf, the company behind the mobile internet speed measurement app of the same name, recently announced the findings of a speed test, conducted throughout all of 2017, pitting six of Indonesia’s six biggest mobile internet providers – Telkomsel, XL, Indosat Ooredoo, Bolt, Tri Hutchinson, and Smartfren – against each other.
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All performance aspects considered, Telkomsel left the other providers trailing in its wake with a score of 37,193 points. Bolt, which came in second, scored 28,441 points while Smartfren, in third, came in third with 24, 281 points. Indosat Ooredoo, a joint venture between Indonesian telco Indosat and Qatari telco Ooredoo, scored the fewest points with 12,974.
Telkomsel almost made a clean sweep of the performance categories that were measured, including the all important download bitrate average (10.64 mbps) and upload bitrate average (7.91 mbps). It just barely lost out to Bolt in latency (73.52 ms to Telkomsel’s 90.94 ms) and Youtube streaming performance rate average (73.99% to Telkomsel’s 72.51%).
One metric that was not included in the study is connection coverage. In that, Bolt would fare poorly compared to the others since it’s only available in the Greater Jakarta Area and Medan.
While Telkomsel came out on top in this speed test, a common complaint against the mobile internet provider is that its internet packages are generally more expensive than its competitors. In fact, netizens rejoiced when an unidentified hacker defaced Telkomsel’s official website last year as an expression of his/her disdain of their pricey and ridiculously structured internet plans (such as allocating precious gigabytes exclusively for apps many people don’t use).
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