Feb 2026
Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2026
Opensignal sheds light on the difference in the experience seen by our users on different operators across the globe — to better inform users, operators and regulators.
Feb 2025
Measuring What Matters: An Introduction to the Global Network Excellence Index
The Opensignal Global Network Excellence Index ranks countries based on real-world mobile experience, evaluating 4G/5G Availability, Excellent Consistent Quality (ECQ), and Download Speed. This report explores key insights, policies, and investment strategies driving network excellence.
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Benchmarking the Global 5G Experience – April 2021
Cities have a significantly better 5G experience than the national 5G results. For example, users in the city of Jeonju in South Korea have a 5G Download Speed of 415.6 Mbps which is 15% faster than South Korea's overall result.
mmWave 5G is almost thirty times faster than public Wifi, but with similar reach
Some types of 5G have very similar availability to public Wifi. For example, 5G smartphone users spend approximately 0.5% of time connected to 5G mmWave. Now, with 5G and especially with 5G mmWave, we see speeds on mobile that are much faster than with public Wifi.
The US smartphone speed race: how Apple, Google, LG, OnePlus and Samsung compare
Smartphone makers are moving quickly to implement the latest 5G technologies with the aim of improving users’ mobile experience. Here, Opensignal analyzes our latest real-world data to see how users' experience with 5G models from the five leading 5G brands varies.
Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2021
Last year, to celebrate Opensignal’s 10th anniversary, we ranked the world's operators using our leading measures of the real-world mobile network experience. It was so well received that we’ve chosen to publish the awards again.
Understanding where and when users can experience 5G in South Korea
It’s clear from the many different potential ways to measure users’ experience and mobile networks that there is no single correct way to measure the extent of a mobile network. Opensignal’s two different measures — 5G Availability and 5G Reach — represent the network experience of users.
Understanding the mobile experience on T-Mobile’s standalone 5G network
Opensignal analyzed our users’ mobile experience on T-Mobile’s network before and after the operator launched its nationwide standalone access (SA) 5G network on August 4, 2020. We then compared our users' mobile experience on T-Mobile's SA and NSA 5G networks.
How Rakuten’s mobile network experience is evolving
In our latest analysis of the mobile experience of Rakuten users, we see big increases in the reach of Rakuten’s network as it expands across Japan and a resulting impact on users’ mobile experience.
