Technologies for estimating performance for a communications network are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining a proposed entire coverage of the communications network, and prior to live traffic being generated by users on the communications network: determining a drive test pattern commensurate with the proposed entire coverage, causing performance of drive tests in accordance with the drive test pattern, and in real-time: analyzing drive test data from the drive tests, and generating emulated network performance metrics for the communications network based on the analyzing of the drive test data.