Norway coverage
97
Mbps median
31
Mbps, slowest tenth
388
travellers measured
2
networks available
Which network you get
| Carrier | Role | 5G |
|---|---|---|
| Telenor | Primary, used by default | yes, standalone and non standalone |
| Telia | Failover, used when the primary degrades | yes, standalone and non standalone |
You do not choose between them. If the network you are on gets congested we move you to the other one automatically, in the middle of your trip, and tell you afterwards.
How we measure
Orbislo devices report connection quality on real traffic, never synthetic speed tests, because a speed test spends your data to tell us something we can measure for free. Reports carry the carrier, the radio type, the throughput and a coarse location of roughly one kilometre. No precise location is ever collected, nothing is published below a sample of 25, and you can switch the whole thing off in one tap.
How to read the Norway numbers
Two numbers matter and only one of them is the one every seller quotes. The median, 97 Mbps, is the middle of 388 real sessions: half were faster, half were slower. It tells you what a good moment looks like.
The tenth percentile, 31 Mbps, is the one worth reading. It is the speed in the worst tenth of the day, when the cell above the station is full and everybody around you is on it too. A country with a high median and a low floor is a country that works beautifully right up until the moment you actually need it.
None of this is a speed test. These are real sessions on real handsets belonging to travellers who left measurement switched on, aggregated over ninety days, and a country is not published at all until it has 25 of them.
What happens in Norway when the network is busy
Congestion is not a fault, it is a Tuesday evening. The question is what your eSIM can do about it, and for most travel eSIMs the answer is nothing: one wholesale agreement per country, one network, and no way out except buying a second eSIM from somebody else while standing in the street.
Here, Orbislo traffic runs over Telenor and Telia. When the network you are on degrades we move you to another one, mid trip, without you asking, and tell you afterwards rather than interrupting you at the time.
Questions about Norway
Which network will I be on in Norway?
How fast is the data really?
Can I tether a laptop?
How current are these Norway speeds?
What if I get no signal at all in Norway?
Will my phone work in Norway?
Coverage nearby
How Norway compares across Europe
- Speed rank
- 3 of 46 destinations we sell in Europe
- Regional median
- 71 Mbps
- Consistency
- The slowest tenth still reaches 32 percent of the median
- Upstream networks
- 2, Telenor, Telia
- 5G
- Yes, standalone and non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Finland, 102 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Estonia, 95 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 4: Oslo, Bergen, Tromso, Lofoten
- tenth percentile
- 31 Mbps
- Behind these figures
- 388 travellers, rolling 90 days
Nearby destinations in Europe
- Switzerland
- Switzerland, 112 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Finland
- Finland, 102 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Estonia
- Estonia, 95 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Netherlands
- Netherlands, 94 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Luxembourg
- Luxembourg, 91 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Sweden
- Sweden, 91 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Romania
- Romania, 89 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Denmark
- Denmark, 88 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Italy
- Italy, 88 Mbps median, 2 networks
- Liechtenstein
- Liechtenstein, 88 Mbps median, 1 networks