![]() You expect 5G NSA to use more battery than 4G, since when you’re attached to a 5G NSA network, you are also maintaining attachment to a 4G network. A more scientific study would have been better able to dig into this sort of detail. Likewise, the study doesn’t split the 5G dataset between Non-Standalone (NSA) and the latest Standalone (SA) networks, which is relevant because end-to-end 5G SA networks are known to be much more energy efficient than the initial round of transitional 5G deployments. For example, the study suggests that 4G devices use less power, which is a logical assumption, but this overlooks the fact that 5G also downloads data several times faster too. Such details are important because otherwise the study is ignoring key aspects of context and performance. But this overlooks key details about the device and user, such as what activities they were performing, display size, brightness and screen on-time etc. However, it’s worth noting that Ookla’s methodology for this test was very basic, with the company measuring battery drain by identifying all devices recording 100% battery level during morning hours (6am-12pm), and then comparing that to their minimum battery level in the afternoon (12pm-6pm). ![]()
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