Welcome to the 5G Global Awards...
The 5G Global Awards are Opensignal’s annual assessment of real-world 5G experience across national mobile networks worldwide. Based on billions of measurements collected directly from user devices during the first 180 days of 2025 (1st January – 28th June, 2025), the awards recognize the operators delivering the best performance today.
Our awards
This year’s Awards span six core measures of 5G experience: Download Speed, Video Experience, Games Experience, Voice App Experience, Reliability, and Coverage Experience.
To recognise operators for their outstanding user experience we award the top scoring operators for each metrics, and each land-area division the 5G Global Winners and 5G Global Leader titles. In addition to the category awards, the 5G Global Rising Star recognitions highlight operators with the greatest year-on-year improvement in each measure, within their respective land-area grouping. This ensures recognition not only of current leaders but also of operators making the most progress for their customers.
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“Opensignal’s awards represent the pinnacle of excellence in mobile network experience, recognizing the operators that deliver the highest standards of performance and innovation”
A Deeper Look at
5G Experience
This year we introduce 5G Reliability, our flagship measure of modern mobile connectivity. Reliability has become just as important as speed: users want the confidence that their connection will work whenever they need it. This metric captures how consistently users can complete everyday tasks while connected to 5G, reflecting the probability that once on 5G they can establish a working connection, maintain it without drops, and achieve sufficient quality for common apps.
We also feature 5G Coverage Experience, which assesses the extent of geographic reach of 5G networks within each market. To ensure results reflect where connectivity matters most the methodology takes into account data on geographic population density, producing a standardized real-world view of national 5G coverage that is comparable between markets.
We have also refined our eligibility criteria to ensure fair, like-for-like operator comparisons. Only those with sufficient 5G coverage and adoption are included, qualifying them as 5G networks commercially available on a national scale.
This prevents skewed results from small-scale deployments or pre-commercial trials that may show strong 5G network performance simply because they are not yet carrying the full load of user demand.
As a result, some prominent operators that are actively rolling out 5G, such as in Indonesia (3, Telkomsel, XL), Vietnam (MobiFone, Vinaphone), Colombia (Movistar, Tigo), and India (Vi) – do not appear in this year’s awards because their 5G reach remains too limited.
Only operators meeting the standards of global comparability, guided by our internal measurements on reach of 5G networks and bespoke market assessments, are recognized.
Exploring the
Award Results
Our key findings
- Brazil’s Vivo and South Korea’s KT take top honours for 5G Download Speed
- Polish operators among the fastest risers for 5G Download Speed
- au in Japan, A1 Slovenia and Vodafone Czechia excel on 5G Reliability
- T-Mobile USA and Singtel lead the way on 5G Coverage
- Japan’s au and Singapore’s Singtel shine in 5G Games Experience
- 5G Video Experience is shared by operators in Europe, Canada, Japan and Singapore
- Strong showings in 5G Voice App Experience across Japan and Central Europe
View our key findings to learn more. More
Operator summary
Discover the full summary of all operators featured in our report by country. More
Methodology & definitions
The 5G Global Mobile Awards showcase operators delivering the best real-world 5G experiences worldwide, based on billions of measurements collected directly from user devices. Our methodology covers six core metrics, from speed and video to gaming, voice apps, reliability, and coverage, and applies fair comparisons by land-area grouping and strict eligibility criteria. More
