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Benchmarking Malaysia’s 4G mobile network experience before the JENDELA initiative

By Hardik Khatri, December 2020

Recently, the Government of Malaysia announced a multi-billion dollar national digital infrastructure plan, Jalinan Digital Negara (JENDELA), to improve the country’s digital infrastructure and connectivity.

Analyzing Malaysia’s mobile data consumption, and its effects on 4G Download Speed

By Hardik Khatri, October 2020

We observed that our Malaysian smartphone users' average mobile data consumption increased drastically over a few weeks across all networks — concurrently with the MCO's introduction — and this was associated with significant drops in our users' average 4G Download Speed Experience. While our users' data consumption on most networks in the third quarter of 2020 has remained above pre-MCO levels, their average download speeds are slowly returning to normal and even improving beyond those seen before the MCO in some cases.

Malaysia, September 2020, Mobile Network Experience

By Hardik Khatri, September 2020

Our U Mobile users saw the largest improvement in 4G Availability — the average percentage of time that our 4G users spent connected to 4G services — compared to our <a href='https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2020/04/malaysia/mobile-network-experience' target='_blank'>last report</a>.

Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2020

By Sam Fenwick, September 2020

For the very first time Opensignal is providing a comprehensive comparison of mobile network experience globally at the operator-level across five key measures of mobile network experience.

Malaysia, April 2020, Mobile Network Experience

By Hardik Khatri, April 2020

In this report we examined the mobile network experience on five Malaysian national operators’ networks — Celcom, Maxis, DiGi, U Mobile and Unifi — to see how they fared. We further delved deeper into 12 states and two Federal Territories of Malaysia, comparing the results of these five operators. We also introduced two new metrics in this report for the first time in Malaysia — Games Experience and 4G Coverage Experience.

How Malaysians’ roaming experience in Singapore is affected by their choice of operator

By Sam Fenwick, March 2020

We have analyzed how three measures of the mobile user experience vary between international roamers from Malaysia and domestic users in Singapore.

Southeast Asia: Connecting the dots between economic activity and mobile experience

By Ian Fogg, March 2020

We found a strong correlation between mobile Download Speed Experience and the GDP per capita of countries across southeast and south Asia. Our approach revealed a completely different landscape compared with looking at Download Speed Experience, Games Experience or other measures of mobile network experience in isolation.