OneScore™ Ranking

GWS’ OneScore is a ranking methodology that combines engineering data with consumer research to provide a definitive performance score, identifying best-in-class mobile networks. Taking into account both real-world network performance as well as real opinions from consumers on what they want from their network (from coverage to reliability, data speed, voice quality, and video performance), OneScore results in the industry’s most comprehensive evaluation of mobile networks.

Data Collection

GWS engineers have practical experience with collection tools from all major test equipment manufacturers and can provide value added analysis using our proprietary tools or commercial post processing software packages.

GWS data collection services include:

• Drive Testing
• Optimization
• Site Acceptance
• Coverage Testing
• Model Tuning
• In Building Testing
• Campus Testing
• Customized Testing Solutions

Mobistat™

MobiStat is an interactive web-based reporting and mapping tool designed to enable wireless carriers to quickly and efficiently assess network performance. The MobiStat database contains all call events and the pertinent information related to each call event (date, time, RXLev, RXQual, etc) from all drive tests and from all carriers collected.

MobiStat continually grows as data is collected during each drive cycle. Call events can be manipulated easily and efficiently by the user, reducing analysis time. MobiStat provides prebuilt plots/charts, user selectable parameters, downloadable raw data for additional analysis, and is open to other data sources for data mining.

OneMeasure Consumer Panel

Smartphones connect people to the world – they are a part of everyone’s everyday life. GWS’ OneMeasure Consumer Panel (OMCP) can provide you with a lens into a day in the life of the consumer. It focuses on smartphone usage to better understand consumer behavior as well as wireless network performance.

OMCP is an opt-in consumer panel that can report on, measure, and evaluate mobile app usage, network performance, and consumer perceptions. It collects consumer data on consumer Android smartphones 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whenever and wherever consumers use their devices. In addition to collecting key usage and performance stats, OMCP has the ability to conduct targeted surveys with consumer panelists based on demographic and/or usage criteria.

Currently, OMCP panelists (aged 18+) are recruited from the top 41 metropolitan areas across the US along with consumers located in less populated areas. The number of panelists per metro area depends on the area’s geographical size.Total sample size of the panel averages around 200,000 U.S. consumers annually. Data is anonymously collected and reported in aggregate for market research purposes only.

Learn more about the OMCP:

• Brief overview of OMCP and its benefits click here
• Detailed explanation of how the OMCP works click here
• Sample of OMCP insights click here
• Sample of the most recent consumer panel data collected and segmented by demographics, app type, and vertical markets click here

Performance Monitoring

GWS' Performance Monitoring Tool is a web based tool that provides mobile network operators with critical network performance information. Easy to use and requiring only an internet connection to the operator’s data, the secure web site displays performance statistics and essential data in a user friendly format.

Critical network alerts can also be sent to users by SMS and/or email and weekly reports with key performance indicators can be automatically generated and sent to users by email.The tool provides a real-time understanding of the health of a mobile network. Key performance statistics include drop call rates, block call rates, traffic, handover statistics and channel availabilities and usage information.

The tool can also be utilized to understand how the network performance changes with ongoing network configuration changes (e.g. cell site additions, power adjustments, antenna modifications, frequency additions, reallocations of traffic or control channels, handover parameter changes, etc.). Statistics are available for the Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), Mobile Switching Center (MSC) and regarding Call Details Records (CDR).With the GWS Performance Monitoring Tool, users can access information that can be used to assist with future network growth or budgeting. For example, through the identification of sectors that begin to exhibit blocking, actions may be taken to relieve this congestion, such as adding an extra TRX, add extra sites, switch on directed retry, etc. The performance tool also has statistically based alarms that trigger when certain criteria are met - thus providing a quick summary of the network's immediate health.

Event-O-Meter

Event-O-Meter is an easy-to-understand measurement of network performance at popular events nationwide. It’s a barometer for how American consumers experience wireless connectivity when networks are trying to accommodate heavy traffic at a particular location. Using our OneScore evaluation process, the Event-O-Meter takes into account voice, data, video, coverage, and reliability metrics based on customer experience.

How it Works
Throughout an event GWS network testing specialists will be on site collecting thousands of voice and data samples. Once the controlled testing is complete, results are evaluated and then compiled into a performance score using our OneScore methodology. In addition, to an overall mobile network performance score, GWS also provides scores for network speed, network reliability, and social media performance.

Want to find out more about Event-O-Meter? Download our program brochure or see the media coverage here.