Mobile analytics company Opensignal has published its latest report comparing the experience of users of mobile networks in the Asia-Pacific countries. The report provides information about the 5G connection in Malaysia and it is based on the data collected from April to June of the year 2024. Amazingly, Malaysia is among the leading countries in terms of speed of download and speed of uploading.
Malaysia ranks second in the 5G download speed only second to South Korea. The speed of 295.5 Mbps ranks Malaysia lower than South Korea which has a speed of 427.5 Mbps. Hence, this shows the gap that Malaysia needs to fill to improve its 5G performance.
Malaysia ranked third for 5G upload speed, behind South Korea and Taiwan. Malaysia was at 34Mbps while the global leader South Korea comes at 52.2Mpbs. However, Malaysia’s current structure is still expanding, and there seem to be good signs of its growth.
The report also features Malaysia’s growth from 4G to 5G connection. By moving to this type of network architecture, Malaysia did well by improving its download speed by 10.3Mbps. But when it comes to upload-speed gains, the result is still less impressive at 3.7Mbps.
And if one were to look at the index of download speed, based both on 4G and 5G connectivity, Malaysia is ranked in 7th place. While it ranks fifth on the list in terms of upload speeds, it is still considerably lower than many other advanced countries, including Singapore and Vietnam.
It also revealed that Singapore has a better average download speed than Malaysia but is 29.1Mbps faster on average. Still, it is only 1.7Mbps behind Malaysia’s upload speeds.
