Regulator ANCOM updates mobile coverage monitoring platform with more granular results and new features
Romanian regulator ANCOM has updated its www.aisemnal.ro platform with the results obtained from the voice signal coverage measurement campaign that it carried out this year. The results confirmed the four MNOs met the obligation to deliver voice services to 98% of inhabited areas in the country through their own radio access network. The results were: Digi 98.6%; Orange 98.2%; Telekom mobile 98.1% and Vodafone 98.1%.
The campaign to measure the national signal coverage for mobile voice services took place between April and November 2024, the signal coverage of localities being measured by walking through accessible roads, boulevards and main and secondary streets.
During this campaign, 13,283 localities were checked, which had a population of more than 10 inhabitants, and over 240,000 km were traveled on national, county, city and communal roads. So, from the entire inhabited area of the country, which includes a total of 19,053,815 inhabitants, according to the population and housing census (INS 2021), the areas inhabited by 19,049,815 people were measured. Voice coverage was calculated as the ratio between the sum of the population covered and the total population.
New user functions
Users have at their disposal the aisemnal.ro platform for checking the signal coverage in Romania, and in the next period an updated version of the aisemnal.ro application for Android and iOS operating systems will be available. It can be downloaded for free from the app stores.
ANCOM said its platform has two new functionalities: when selecting the measured localities, information is presented on the percentages of coverage with a certain signal level, according to legend, for 2G and 4G technologies, the number of inhabitants of the locality and the date/period in which the measurements were carried out by the regulator. At the same time, those interested can now view the signal level of all operators at the level of the measured point.
The aisemnal.ro platform and the aisemnal.ro application allow users to view the evolution of the signal coverage for voice services in 2024 compared to 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, while also having the possibility to consult the cumulative coverage at national level.
The map includes the areas where it is possible for users to roam “involuntarily”, but also the signal coverage map for the Bucharest metro, at the level of 2021. Also, the aisignal platform allows the 3D visualisation of the digital terrain model based on EU-DEM Copernicus.