Mobile Testing Findings Presented to California Broadband Council

On Tuesday, November 18 in San Francisco, Ken Biba, CTO and Co-founder of Novarum, presented recent findings from the past five rounds of mobile field testing to the California Broadband Council. His six key themes were:

• Mobile broadband continues to get much better VERY quickly (on average)
• There is a wide variation in mobile broadband performance across California
• Not all carriers are equal
• Mobile broadband service is not just wireless access
• Real and growing mobile digital divide
• The bulk of California’s mobile network is still not yet VoIP ready
• Measured service substantially less than advertised

Here's one of his graphs, showing estimated VoIP readiness: