Not In Big Cities Of Indonesia, The Best Quality Of Video Streaming Is In The City Of Sorong And Bekasi

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JAKARTA - It is undeniable that Indonesian people love to surf in cyberspace. Especially since the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have had to work or study from home.

Apart from work from home (WFH) activities. Many also are Indonesian citizens who spend their internet time enjoying video or music streaming services.

Indonesian mobile operators are also competing to improve the quality of the internet so that users can access streaming video better. In fact, operators also provide special bundling packages for streaming video.

Interestingly, from a number of cities in Indonesia. Internet users in Sorong City, West Papua who actually enjoy the best quality video streaming services in Indonesia.

"Our users in Sorong City, West Papua enjoy the best quality mobile video streaming in Indonesia, followed by users in Maluku Islands' Ambon and in Jayapura City, Papua - all three are in the Very Good rating category," wrote mobile network analytics company Opensignal, as quoted by VOI, Tuesday, June 2.

This result is based on the State of Mobile Network Experience 2020 report, a survey conducted in 44 major cities in Indonesia, from January 1 to March 31, 2020. The result is that by combining national telecommunication operators and various network technologies used, Opensignal has succeeded in mapping the quality Video streaming services in Indonesia are in the fair (Fair), good (Good) to very good (Very Good) category.

Whereas overall, the quality of video streaming in Indonesia is still monitored, ranging from Fair (40-55) to Very Good (65-75), depending on each location. Meanwhile, most big cities get a Good predicate for video streaming quality.

OpenSignal survey results

Best Bekasi in Java Island

Uniquely, the quality of video streaming in Java, which has many big cities, does not have a good network. Among cities in Java Island, only Bekasi City got the best rating for its streaming quality at position 19, followed by Surabaya and Bandung.

From the survey, Bekasi City got a score of 60.3 which was in the 'Good' category. On par with the mobile video streaming experience in Medan. Meanwhile, cities in other Java regions such as South Tangerang have a score of 59.9, Surabaya with a score of 59.8, Bandung with a score of 59.6, and Jakarta with a score of 59.1.

Overall, in this report entitled State of Mobile Network Experience report 2020, Indonesia succeeded in increasing the video experience rating from fair to good category.

In his explanation, OpenSignal said that the more users are doing video streaming activities that are data-hungry, the network capacity is depressed so that it can reduce quality.

"While operators generally tend to concentrate their networks and upgrade capacity in larger cities, often that increase cannot keep pace with the growing demand for data consumption in a technologically literate and densely populated metropolis," wrote OpenSignal.