Digital Divide between Urban and Rural Population? State Wide Mobile Network Quality Assessment for Bavaria, Germany
Summary. Researchers analyzed over 225 million mobile network measurements across Bavaria to assess whether 5G deployment reduces the digital divide between urban and rural areas. They measured throughput, latency, jitter, and packet loss across different network generations and providers. The study maps these performance metrics to population distribution to identify whether rural areas experience consistently lower Quality of Experience than urban regions.
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Loh, F., Raithel, F., Seufert, A., Heller, C., Fröhler, R., Wunderer, S., & Hoßfeld, T.. (2025). Digital Divide between Urban and Rural Population? State Wide Mobile Network Quality Assessment for Bavaria, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1109/noms57970.2025.11073598
Loh, Frank, et al. “Digital Divide between Urban and Rural Population? State Wide Mobile Network Quality Assessment for Bavaria, Germany.” 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/noms57970.2025.11073598.
Loh, Frank, Flavian Raithel, Anika Seufert, Claus Heller, Robert Fröhler, Stefan Wunderer, and Tobias Hoßfeld. 2025. “Digital Divide between Urban and Rural Population? State Wide Mobile Network Quality Assessment for Bavaria, Germany.” https://doi.org/10.1109/noms57970.2025.11073598.
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- DOI
- 10.1109/noms57970.2025.11073598
- Countries
- Germany
- Regions
- Europe
- Categories
- broadband-and-digital, rural-data-and-definitions, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-29