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Market Analysis
4G Availablity
Examining the percentage of an operator’s known locations where a device has access to 4G LTE service, we found that Chunghwa Telecom and Taiwan Mobile had the best 4G Availability in Taiwan during Q3-Q4 2020 at 97.9%.
97.9% Chunghwa Telecom | ||||||||
97.9% Taiwan Mobile | ||||||||
93.7% TSTAR | ||||||||
91.0% FarEasTone | ||||||||
90.4% GT |
Device Information
An analysis of performance on some of the fastest phones in Taiwan demonstrated the iPhone 12 Pro Max 5G showed the fastest mean download speed during Q3-Q4 2020 with 170.00 Mbps.
Device Name | Manufacturer | Mean Download Mbps | Mean Upload Mbps | Mean Latency ms |
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iPhone 12 Pro Max 5G | Apple | 170.00 | 28.16 | 19 |
Xperia 1 II 5G | Sony | 166.60 | 23.83 | 23 |
iPhone 12 Pro 5G | Apple | 156.16 | 28.16 | 19 |
Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G | Samsung | 147.61 | 28.29 | 19 |
Galaxy S20+ 5G | Samsung | 143.96 | 30.17 | 20 |
Manufacturer Information
We examined combined performance by major cell phone manufacturers and found that devices from Samsung had the fastest mean download speed in Taiwan during Q3-Q4 2020 at 66.92 Mbps.
Manufacturer | Mean Download Mbps | Mean Upload Mbps | Mean Latency ms |
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Samsung | 66.92 | 16.83 | 23 |
Apple | 66.47 | 16.37 | 26 |
Asus | 47.64 | 12.50 | 28 |
Oppo | 45.44 | 15.19 | 24 |
Xiaomi | 33.10 | 12.53 | 26 |
Chipset Information
Looking at five of the fastest chipsets in Taiwan, we found that Snapdragon X55 5G had the fastest mean download speed during Q3-Q4 2020 at 155.02 Mbps.
Chipset | Manufacturer | Mean Download Mbps | Mean Upload Mbps | Mean Latency ms |
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Snapdragon X55 5G | Qualcomm | 155.02 | 27.34 | 19 |
Snapdragon 865 | Qualcomm | 136.45 | 26.41 | 21 |
Snapdragon 765G | Qualcomm | 118.57 | 26.36 | 21 |
Snapdragon 855 | Qualcomm | 58.69 | 13.95 | 25 |
Exynos 9820 | Samsung | 57.92 | 14.07 | 22 |
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