Mobile networks — measured as your users actually experience them.
NetworkUX is the independent measurement service for organisations whose work depends on mobile coverage and performance being good enough in the real world. We survey every UK and Irish network simultaneously, on the same routes, at the same time — capturing both signal coverage and data throughput, at street level, with every reading geolocated and timestamped. The output is evidence: maps, reports and exports that hold up in front of network operators, regulators and your own board.
Three things in one engagement.
A NetworkUX engagement is a measurement methodology, a delivery platform and a set of audience-tailored reports — not three separate vendors.
Survey methodology
A consistent four-phase process that scales from a single candidate charge-point site to a borough-wide council survey. Walked, driven, cycled or fleet-equipped — the right mode for the brief, with the same data structure underneath.
See the methodologyMeasurement platform
The kit and software that captures hundreds of thousands of geolocated readings per survey-day, plus the visualisation layer that turns those readings into interactive multi-operator coverage maps your stakeholders can filter, zoom and search.
See a live exampleAudience-tailored reports
Council committee briefings, LEVI bid attachments, event-day debriefs, operator-ready evidence packs, BID renewal evidence. Format and framing scoped to your decision context — underlying data exportable to KML, shapefile, GeoJSON, CSV or PDF.
See the audiencesTwo streams. Same survey.
The two metrics that determine whether a network actually serves your users. Most coverage tools measure one or the other. NetworkUX captures both, simultaneously, across every operator.
What the radio can see.
Continuous polling of signal strength on every operator under test, classified by radio technology — 5G, 5G NSA, 4G, 3G, 2G — with a strength reading in dBm at every measurement point.
Signal is the coverage answer — can the device reach a cell at all.
What the network actually delivers.
Real data throughput tests — download, upload and combined averages in Mbps, timestamped and geolocated — that show whether a usable service rides on top of that signal.
Performance is the capacity answer — does the network serve a usable service under load.
Signal isn’t service. At The Open Championship, three of four UK networks had 5G NSA signal on 96–99% of measurements — but only Vodafone delivered usable data at scale. That gap is invisible to any tool that only measures one stream.
The honest answer to “how is your network doing?”
Other ways of answering that question exist. None of them tell the whole story. Here’s where NetworkUX fits among the alternatives.
Independent, not predicted.
Operator coverage maps are largely predicted from propagation models — not measured at street level. They cover one operator at a time and rarely show performance. NetworkUX measures every operator’s real-world result on the same routes, at the same time.
Structured, not opportunistic.
OpenSignal, RootMetrics and Speedtest data are biased by where active users happen to be and what they happen to test. NetworkUX surveys defined areas on planned routes with controlled equipment — structured data you can reason about, not a mixed-quality sample.
Performance, not just signal.
Ofcom’s Connected Nations data is signal-coverage focused and aggregated to broad geographies. NetworkUX captures both signal and data throughput, at the precision a charge-point operator, venue or council needs to make a site-by-site decision.
Repeatable, not bespoke.
A bespoke audit costs more, takes longer and produces an output unique to that engagement. NetworkUX uses a standard methodology with consistent data structures, so a borough-scale survey today is comparable with one a year later, or a sister borough next door, with no stakeholder re-education needed.
The most granular CC in the UK.
Streetwave aggregates to street segments. Ofcom Map Your Mobile uses 50–100 m cells. Operator checkers are coarser still. Ours uses 10-metre hexagons (H3 res 12), shows all four UK networks side-by-side, excludes server-side time from speeds, and runs on real measurements only — no predictions, no crowdsourcing. See the comparison →
What council customers say after the data lands on the table.
Four direct quotes from three live UK council programmes — Westminster City Council, Manchester City Council and the Tees Valley Combined Authority (plus one of its constituent councils).
“The conversation with mobile-network operators has moved on a lot more. We know where the problem areas are. We can be constructive and collaborative about how we might be able to help them — our aim is to improve the user and visitor experience of people coming to Westminster.”
Head of Smart City, Westminster City Council
“Overall, the experience of working with the team at NetworkUX and the product delivered was exceptional in quality and delivery. I would recommend NetworkUX to any party interested in gathering data on mobile capacity.”
Senior Digital Strategy Officer, Manchester City Council
“Ever wondered why your apps won’t load despite full bars on your phone? That’s exactly what our new Mobile Performance Map is here to solve. It’s already highlighting where coverage is strong — and where it needs to improve — so we can work with providers to fill the gaps and make sure people get the service they pay for.”
Tees Valley Mayor
“We’re using our bin wagons to sort more than just our rubbish — we’re sorting rubbish signal out, too. No more guesswork — this will give us hard evidence of problems people who have poor signal know only too well, and arm us to go to providers and government to get it sorted.”
Leader, Darlington Borough Council
Across the UK and Ireland, on every major network — with deployments now extending into continental Europe.
We measure every major mobile operator simultaneously, so the output is a like-for-like multi-operator comparison rather than a single-network slice. The UK and ROI coverage cards below summarise the active jurisdictions; surveys in Paris and Barcelona have proven the methodology travels.
United Kingdom
Vodafone · EE · VMO2 · Three
Surveys spanning London (Liverpool Street, transport hubs), Manchester (city-centre, BID footprints), Tees Valley (regional), and Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.
Republic of Ireland
Vodafone · Eir · Three
Surveys spanning Wexford Town (Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann), Wicklow Town (St Patrick’s Day parade), and ongoing event-day measurement work for Irish councils and venues.
Recent case studies.
Four engagements that exercise the full offering — from event stress tests to daily commuter-peak failure to small-town parades the networks handled in stride.
The offering, framed for your role.
The methodology, the platform and the underlying data are the same for every customer. The scope, the analysis lens and the deliverable are tailored to the audience.
Tell us where you want measured, and what you need it to prove.
Email us with the area, the operators, the time windows and the audience. We’ll respond with a scope, a timeline and a quote — and tell you up front if a faster, cheaper route exists.