Our method

What we measure, how, with which limits — and how to check every published figure.

What we measure

Every five minutes, the Mobile Money® app sends a small request to four of our servers and times the name lookup, the connection, the secure connection and the arrival of the first response. It also records the outcome: success, timeout or error.

On which phones

On the phones where the Mobile Money® app is installed, over the network they use at the time of the measurement. A dedicated consent arrives with an upcoming version of the app.

The published measures

Success rate: the share of successful requests. Median latency: half of the responses arrive faster. Slow latency: nine responses in ten arrive faster. Secure connection: the median duration of the encrypted handshake. Over a period, each latency is the average of the hourly or daily values, weighted by the number of successful measurements.

Network health

Health = 45% × success rate + 30% × median latency score + 15% × slow latency score + 10% × secure connection score.

Each score is 100 at the good end and 0 at the bad end, in a straight line between them: median latency from 200 ms to 3,000 ms, slow latency from 400 ms to 6,000 ms, secure connection from 100 ms to 1,500 ms.

Never a ranking on a handful of points

An operator is ranked only from 200 measurements over the period. Below that, we write “not enough measurements”. No value is set aside because it looks isolated.

The limits, stated

We do not measure speed yet. Our measurements do not carry a location yet: the map stops at the country. The live ranking counts mobile data only; the daily aggregate behind the 7, 30 and 90-day periods also counts measurements made on Wi-Fi.

What we publish, what we keep

We publish aggregates only: no number, no phone identifier, no location. Raw measurements are kept, because they ground the published figures.

The map

The map is schematic: one square per area, with no third-party base map. Colours follow fixed bands, the same for every area.

Write to us

A question about a figure or the method? Contact us

Checking a figure

Every hourly or daily aggregate is sealed by a SHA-256 fingerprint of its content. The fingerprint of a view is the SHA-256 of the sorted list of its aggregates’ fingerprints. Here are those of the selected view.

Northern Europe · 90 days · From Jul 4, 2026 to Oct 1, 2026

Fingerprint of these figures 6b4f884c6483a169078a485fa5aacb832b09676fc9a3846996cdf1eee1a67337 Check these figures

DateCountryOperatorMeasurementsFingerprint
Jul 27, 2026United KingdomNetwork 101765ddeac42bd9cd41dbe90f7ae2c7ef0e358d575c1d47cb1065b5e7a70c8a21e
Aug 22, 2026United KingdomNetwork 30135e433741a352c8a7af04260e30d9bc2f5e02daad5038106efe572a5756990259
Aug 23, 2026United KingdomNetwork 3019fbcc96d290aa179c04c8f3394c09f02444c68183120dfc3d32e3f8c170ed745
Aug 24, 2026United KingdomNetwork 3018cc862adb4dbd7c271c65970a4e364ca6d57293f79b271f1562c5e03eaecc6c5e
Aug 25, 2026United KingdomNetwork 3026625b2a095279562171770bafeafd73b8c1d2248cc0c9f809a32f91c7ebfe9eb5
Aug 26, 2026United KingdomNetwork 30480d2d336efca8bb656fc7f05a8298af93493b0516831773609c3c557deb08a8d
Aug 29, 2026United KingdomNetwork 15618efebb19275acbc6dcd91f140f4994fc261110cfe22e24a65bb404386fe35eb
Sep 16, 2026United KingdomNetwork 1025c2c20a25f24259bb2636f4d45127f1fb548890f901b31ff0811f5c723addaf93
Sep 16, 2026United KingdomNetwork 1126a39a3fbd949f4749783c95b69580e476d93f23fd5e9b6fcf60483558ea8775c7
Sep 20, 2026United KingdomNetwork 0229113b2f69fe18d973c2a4fa11b557f96902d2501bf9490d1f5f890a33b8461c56