--- title: SE Asia - Coverage --- [![Tutela](https://www.tutela.com/hubfs/Tutela%20October2017%20Theme/Image/tutela-logo.svg)](https://www.tutela.com?hsLang=en) Crowdsourced data for the mobile industry # Southeast Asia State of Mobile Networks Report: Chapter 5 Coverage | **Chapter 1 ** [Key findings](https://www.tutela.com/state-of-mobile-networks-southeast-asia/key-findings?hsLang=en) | **Chapter 4 ** [Data usage](https://www.tutela.com/state-of-mobile-networks-southeast-asia/data-usage?hsLang=en) | | --- | --- | | **Chapter 2 ** [Consistent quality](https://www.tutela.com/state-of-mobile-networks-southeast-asia/consistent-quality?hsLang=en) | **Chapter 5** Coverage | | **Chapter 3 ** [Download speeds](https://www.tutela.com/state-of-mobile-networks-southeast-asia/download-speeds?hsLang=en) |   | ### **Malaysia ![383px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg-1](https://www.tutela.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing%20page%20images/383px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg-1.png?width=40&name=383px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg-1.png)** Celcom has a distinct advantage over the other operators when it comes to 4G coverage; its LTE network is dominant in all major cities and extends to most population centres in East Malaysia. 3G coverage is most apparent for Celcom in the inland parts of the Malay Peninsula, and rural areas of East Malaysia. Neither Maxis nor DiGi can match Celcom’s 4G coverage across the whole country, but both networks do have 4G coverage in the largest cities in both East and West Malaysia. Maxis also appears to have particularly good 3G coverage on the country’s smaller islands. U Mobile has [promised expansion](https://www.malaysianwireless.com/2018/12/u-mobile-4g-lte-coverage-nationwide/) of its 4G network, with a target set of 90% population coverage by the middle of this year. The coverage in the latter half of 2018, however, shows that the network still lags the competition in 4G coverage. Outside of the west coast of the peninsula, 4G coverage is still sorely lacking, and its lack of presence in East Malaysia is apparent. ---   **Celcom** **Maxis** **DiGi** **U Mobile** ### **Indonesia ![383px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg-1](https://www.tutela.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing%20page%20images/383px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg-1.png?width=40&name=383px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg-1.png)** Telkomsel is the dominant mobile provider in Indonesia: its 192 million subscribers in 2018 gave it around 50% of the market share. It has used its resources to invest heavily in its 4G infrastructure, adding thousands of new cell towers per quarter. The capital spend has clearly paid off: Telkomsel has the best coverage of any operator by far, and more impressively, the majority of its network is 4G. 3G mostly provides coverage off the main islands or deeply inland, with 4G present in all major population centres. The remaining networks differ in their coverage: XL, for example, comes the closest to rivaling Telkomsel’s geographic coverage, but with greater reliance on 3G, while Smartfren has impressive 4G coverage on Java, but is limited in its coverage outside of major cities. ---   **Telkomsel** **XL** **Smartfren** **Ooredoo** **3** ### **Philippines ![383px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg-1](https://www.tutela.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing%20page%20images/383px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg-1.png?width=40&name=383px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg-1.png)** Although Smart has the edge over Global when it comes to speed, the story is reversed for coverage. Globe’s network appears to have both more 4G coverage and more geographic coverage overall. ---   **Smart** **Globe** ### **Thailand ![383px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg-1](https://www.tutela.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing%20page%20images/383px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg-1.png?width=40&name=383px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg-1.png)** All four operators have approximately similar geographic coverage, but the type of coverage is what sets them apart. AIS and TrueMove have 4G coverage across the majority of their networks, but DTAC and TOT rely much more heavily on 3G. In the case of AIS and TrueMove, 4G appears to be present across almost all of their networks, although TrueMove does have an edge over AIS. Further exploration of the data reinforces this view: 74% of all connections by AIS customers are on 4G, while an impressive 87% of connections for TrueMove customers are on 4G. That compares favourably to the national average, which is just 59%.  The reason why the national average is so low becomes clear when looking at DTAC and TOT’s networks. DTAC has a mixture of some 4G and 3G, while TOT’s network appears to rely entirely on 3G outside of the largest cities. TOT’s 4G coverage is entirely provided through a [joint deal with DTAC](https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2018/07/12/nokia-and-dtac-deploy-first-4g-tdd-network-for-mass-commercial-use-in-thailand/) to utilize the 2300 MHZ TDD spectrum, while DTAC also provides 4G coverage on 2100 MHz. ---   **AIS** **TrueMove** **DTAC** **TOT** [![](https://www.tutela.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing%20page%20images/Copy%20of%20Cyber%20Monday%20Steals%20(2).png?width=1200&name=Copy%20of%20Cyber%20Monday%20Steals%20(2).png)](https://www.tutela.com/meet-at-mwc-exec?hsLang=en) [Contact us:](https://www.tutela.com/tutela/contact/?hsLang=en) [Tel: +1 (855) 6-TUTELA](tel:+18556888352) [sales@tutela.com](mailto:sales@tutela.com) **Our Privacy Charter** Tutela takes privacy seriously and does not collect any personal or device unique data. For more information, please read our [Privacy Charter (PDF)](https://public.tutela.com/TutelaPrivacyCharter.pdf).