COVID-19 has changed our lives and continues to have a drastic impact It forces us to impose restrictive social distancing measures and leads us to rely more on the Internet Mobile networks become one of the major means to access the Internet for most of us We investigate the performance of 9 mobile networks in Europe around the time when restrictions were imposed, considering web QoE, throughput, RTT, and signal coverage Our results show countries' mobile networks are impacted by COVID-19 (as high as 46 % increase in page load time) at different times based on the outbreak timelines in these countries Moreover, we find that operators responded properly and the network performance is back to the pre-COVID-19 times © 2020 ACM
Mobile Network Performance during the COVID-19 Outbreak from a Testbed Perspective