Welcome to the Global Awards.
The Global Awards are Opensignal’s annual assessment of real-world experience across national mobile networks worldwide. Based on billions of measurements collected directly from user devices during the 180 days of the second half of 2025 (1st July – 29th December, 2025), the awards recognize the operators delivering the best mobile experience today.
Our awards
This year’s Global Awards span eight core measures of mobile experience: Download Speed Experience, Upload Speed Experience, Video Experience, Games Experience, Voice App Experience, Reliability Experience, Time on 4G/5G and Consistent Quality.
To recognise operators delivering outstanding user experience, we award Global Winners and Global Leader titles for each metrics within each land-area division. In addition, the Global Rising Star recognitions highlight operators that achieved the greatest year-on-year improvement in each measure, within their respective land-area grouping.
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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”
Recognition of highest standards of mobile experience
The global mobile landscape continues to evolve, underpinning modern life and economic activity. Drawing on our extensive measurement of mobile experience at the national level, Opensignal is uniquely positioned to recognise outstanding networks on the global stage.
This year’s analysis covers 266 mobile operators across 82 markets, spanning networks at different stages of infrastructure maturity. Across all stages of market maturity, one structural factor continues to shape national-level user experience more than any other: the geographic scale over which networks operate, as larger countries face greater challenges in delivering consistent connectivity. To reflect this, we group operators into two roughly equal categories based on the size of the land area of their market: 44 large land-area markets and 38 small land-area markets.
Across the global landscape, industry consolidation through mergers remains a key driver of change:
- In the U.K., following the completion of the Vodafone–Three merger, the market has entered a period of significant structural transition. While network integration remains at an early stage, the two consumer brands continue to operate separately, and to accurately reflect user experience we continue to assess them as separate entities.
- In Malaysia, Celcom and Dig are now fully consolidated into the new entity CelcomDigi, which is reflected in our analysis.
- In Denmark, Telia has been sold to a new owner Norlys, and reflected under its rebranded name Norlys.
- In Indonesia, the completion of the XL and Smartfren merger led to the creation of the newly included operator XLSmart. Conversely, 3 (Tri) brand is no longer reported separately, as it now operates under Indosat’s IM3 brand following the Indosat–Tri merger.
- In Sri Lanka, Airtel is excluded in our reporting having undergone consolidation with Dialog Axiata.
- In Germany, we now include 1&1 reflecting the newcomer operator’s expanding infrastructure footprint.
Exploring the
Award Results
Our key findings
- Near-ubiquitous modern networks access across operators in Japan, Norway, the U.S. and South Korea
- Norway’s ice and South Korea’s SK Telecom set the benchmark for Consistent Quality
- Most reliable mobile networks are operated by Japan’s au and South Korea’s SK Telecom
- T-Mobile USA, Finland’s DNA and South Korea’s SK Telecom lead the world for mobile speeds
- Video, Gaming and Voice App Experience reveal how networks translate into user experience
- Global Rising Stars given recognition for outstanding experience evolution
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 Global Awards are Opensignal’s annual assessment of real-world experience across national mobile networks worldwide. Based on billions of measurements collected directly from user devices during the 180 days of the second half of 2025 (1st July – 29th December, 2025), the awards recognize the operators delivering the best performance today. More
