Major Project Milestone Reached

Since launching the Beta version of the Qualoo mobile app in late January, we've been quietly building one of the most ambitious internet quality datasets the world has ever seen, driven not by corporations, but by people.

Over 45,000 survey results across 150+ countries submitted by Qualoo’ army of early adopters have contributed to a dataset that merges subjective user experience with objective technical diagnostics, producing a uniquely comprehensive view of how the internet performs in real-world conditions.

What we’ve built is not just a dataset, it is the first global accountability layer for internet quality, created from the ground up, outside the traditional control of telecom operators and government agencies.

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Why This is a World First

Until now, no single entity, either public or private, has managed to measure the quality of internet service from both a technical and human perspective at this scale. Previous attempts relied either on isolated speed tests or consumer satisfaction surveys. Qualoo has combined both, across borders, technologies, and socio-economic realities.

This is the first time the world has access to a distributed, crowd-sourced, and evidence-backed understanding of how the internet actually performs, not just in theory, but in practice. Not just in capital cities, but in homes, offices, classrooms, and rural regions too.

This is a foundational milestone for transparency in connectivity, and it lays the groundwork for systemic change in how networks are measured, upgraded, and held accountable.

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Methodology: Merging Lived Experience with Measured Performance

At the heart of this achievement is a unique methodological breakthrough: capturing and aligning user feedback with real-time network diagnostics at the edge.

• Contextual In-App Surveys: Users provided detailed responses to structured questions about mobile connectivity, broadband and Wi-Fi reliability, and their opinions on their governments and telecom providers efforts and promises on digital transformation initiatives, pricing, accessibility and performance of internet services.
  
  
• Geo-tagged Technical Testing: Meanwhile, the app continuously conducts real-time diagnostics, latency, packet loss, throughput, signal strength, global connectivity tests and more, capturing data at the exact location and time that the user reports any issues. This creates a dynamic, real-world audit of network behavior on the street, in homes, and across entire regions.
  
  

By layering these two streams of information, we have created a view of internet quality that neither source alone could produce. It exposes discrepancies between advertised service levels and lived experience and helps us locate exactly where and why those gaps occur, producing unmatched visibility into the quality of experience (QoE), not just traditional quality of service (QoS). It's a massive step forward for internet transparency.

Early Findings

From the millions of data points collected during the pilot phase, three clear patterns have emerged:

• Urban Bottlenecks: In numerous cities, user reports of poor connectivity closely matched latency spikes, confirming that combined human-technical analysis more accurately reveals network pain points than traditional testing.
  
  
• False Coverage Claims: Despite claims of blanket mobile coverage, our data revealed persistent dead zones, especially in areas assumed to be well-served. These findings challenge the reliability of provider-released coverage maps.
  
  
• Policy vs. Reality: Our survey on government and telco initiatives surfaced a stark contrast between official public messaging and citizen perception. People are not seeing the promised improvements - data that is essential for policy reform.

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Strategic Implications: From Data to Change

As one of the core components of the Qualoo blueprint, this groundbreaking dataset has huge implications for the telecommunications industry and represents far more than just a technical accomplishment. It is the first step toward a redefined model of network governance, one where:

• Internet Service Providers can align infrastructure investment with real user needs.
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• Policymakers and regulators can track national and regional performance using verified, on-chain benchmarks tied to citizen experience.
  
  
• Communities and individuals can make informed decisions and demand better service based on credible, localized data.
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This is the beginning of a shift, from centralized control to participatory accountability. And every user contribution - those 45,000+ survey responses and each technical check-in, sharpens the global view, driving faster, more precise connectivity improvements.

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What’s Next: iOS Launch & Beyond

We are now preparing to scale. The next phase includes:

• Manage Friends: Add existing Qualoo friends to your friend list and much more!

• Mapping: Users will be able to see on the map where they've been moving and testing.

• iOS App Launch: Expanding to iPhone users globally within the coming weeks.
  
  
• Survey Expansion: Refining the surveys and sending out to our growing user base of app users further adding to the data set.

• Wi-Fi Check-In: Users will soon be able to check-in at hotels, cafes, co-working spaces and public venues, adding localized performance data to our global coverage map.

• Advanced Dashboard Prototyping: We’re building advanced internal tools to visualize and slice this data for telecoms, enterprise and government stakeholders and end users
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This Is Just the Beginning

What we've achieved is unprecedented, but we’ve only just scratched the surface.

Our mission doesn't stop with data collection. This is the foundation for an entirely new layer of digital infrastructure, one built on truth, visibility, and inclusion. In the coming months, we will gather more survey results and begin publishing high level and in-depth reports on the state of the internet, not just globally, but by region, country and service provider.

These reports will enable governments, regulators, service providers, researchers, and communities to access the insights they need to make meaningful improvements, backed by real-world evidence from the people who use the internet every day.

This milestone marks a turning point. From now on, no one has to rely on outdated coverage maps, marketing claims, or political spin to understand how connectivity is performing.

We are setting a new global standard, know that and this is just the beginning.  

A massive thank you to all our Guardians of The Internet, that contributed so far. 

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Be Part of the Next Phase

Download the app. 

Contribute your experience.

Run a test. 
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Help us map the internet as it really is, not as it’s advertised to be, and continue turning collective frustration into fact-based fixes, one survey, and one test at a time..

We are not just documenting a problem. We are building the solution together.

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