Crowdsourcing Versus Mobile Network Testing

The need for an objective evaluation of mobile network quality and performance drives two fundamentally different approaches, crowdsourcing, and mobile network testing. The crowdsourcing market is highly saturated. More than 20 companies have a significant focus on crowdsourcing mobile network measurements.

To get measurement results, they use different concepts that serve different purposes. This application note describes the structure of the crowdsourcing space and analyzes the pros and cons of both approaches.