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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mmWave 5G provides a big capacity boost to US users in high-traffic areas
Opensignal has analyzed the amount of mobile data our users consumed on mmWave 5G networks and compared that to the amount of mobile data used on sub-6 GHz 5G and 4G.
Faster 5G speeds helped by 4G spectrum bandwidth in South Korea
Our analysis shows that strong 4G network foundations still remain essential for 5G deployment in its early stages. 4G continues to boost the 5G experience even for a market like South Korea, hailed as one of the 5G frontrunners. Part of the reason for the 5G success story of Korea’s operators is their use of 4G spectrum and having an excellent 4G network that helps to boost 5G download speeds.
5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2021
Now for the first time Opensignal ranks the world's 5G operators using our leading measures of the real-world mobile network experience.
The quality of mobile network experience helps explain churn in Brazil
Opensignal has looked at the mobile experience of our smartphone users that changed their mobile operator in Brazil. In this analysis, we found that Leavers generally had a worse mobile experience before they switched, compared to the average experience of the networks they left.
Belgium, September 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Orange wins the Upload Speed Experience award while Proximus draws level with Telenet on Download Speed Experience.
Slovakia, September 2021, Mobile Network Experience
With a speed of 43.7 Mbps, our Orange users enjoyed the fastest average download speed in Slovakia ahead of Telekom with a score of 38.8 Mbps.
Vietnam, September 2021, Mobile Network Experience
A quick look at our awards table shows that Viettel Mobile remains the dominant operator when it comes to Vietnam’s mobile network experience
