Beyond roaming: how Japanese operators can win the inbound traveller
Most people visiting Japan are paying more for a worse mobile experience — and don't know it. Travellers' choice of staying on a home network's roaming service might be convenient but could come at a cost — not just in bill terms, but in experience terms.
Canada, June 2026, Fixed Broadband Experience
Looking at fixed broadband experience in Canada, Bell takes the awards for Reliability, Consistent Quality, and Upload Speed. Meanwhile, Rogers leads for Download Speed and Video.
South Africa’s 5G challenge is spectrum usage, not performance
South Africa was an early African 5G mover, with launches in 2019 and 2020. Yet in Q1 2026, users spent just 3.7% of their connected time on 5G. Even among South Africans equipped with 5G-capable devices, time spent on 5G was limited to only 11.1% of their connectivity — 4G still anchors the daily mobile experience.
5G Standalone in Europe: Where deployment stands and what it means for consumers – June 2026
In this report we assess the scale of 5G Standalone deployment across 29 European markets in Q1 2026, revealing wide disparity between operators' progress and how their strategies translate into real user experience.
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UAE, May 2022, Mobile Network Experience
Etisalat leads across most mobile experience categories in Qatar based on Opensignal’s awards table as it wins 10 awards outright. On the other hand, du is the outright winner in Games Experience, 5G Download Speed as well as in both measures of a 5G network’s extent — 5G Availability and 5G Reach.
Poland, May 2022, Mobile Network Exprience
Orange collects the largest number of awards — five outright and five joins wins. The operator solely claims three out of four speed awards, along with Games Experience and Core Consistent Quality. Despite not winning anything in the Overall category, Plus secures two 5G Experience awards outright — 5G Video Experience and 5G Download Speed — and shares three additional 5G-related trophies.
Switzerland, May 2022, Mobile Network Experience
Swisscom is the big winner, with nine outright wins and three shared awards, out of 15 trophies available. Salt triumphs in 5G Games Experience and 5G Voice App Experience outright and is the only Swiss operator to earn an Excellent (85 or above) rating for 5G Games Experience.
Lower signal strength impacts the Swiss 5G experience
In our new analysis, Opensignal has observed that our smartphone users in Switzerland experienced worse signal strength when connected to 5G networks than users in neighboring countries — Germany, France and Italy. Also, we found a link between the quality of mobile signal strength and average 5G download speeds: the worse the signal strength, the slower the speeds.
Hong Kong, May 2022, Mobile Network Experience
For the first time, Opensignal reports both the 5G Experience and the overall mobile experience of all Hong Kong users in a single report. Also, we have added two new award categories that quantify the consistency of the mobile network experience.
New Zealand, May 2022, Mobile Network Experience
Vodafone wins the Download Speed Experience award outright but 2degrees comes top for Upload Speed Experience.
Puerto Rico, May 2022, Mobile Network Experience
T-Mobile emerges as the victor in our first report of the Puerto Rican mobile network experience winning 14 out of 15 available awards outright. The operator is the clear winner for all experience awards both for overall and 5G technologies. T-Mobile also tops the leaderboard for 5G Availability, 5G Reach and both Consistent Quality awards.
