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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USA, July 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Despite all three national service providers in the U.S. having launched nationwide 5G services, smartphone users still spend the majority of their time connected to older network technologies, rather than 5G. In our new USA 5G User Experience report, where we delve deeper into seven categories of the 5G mobile experience, we found that our 5G users spent the highest amount of time connected to 5G services on T-Mobile at 36.3%.
USA, July 2021, 5G User Experience
While there are some new 5G winners in this report, overall Opensignal’s awards table has seen few changes since our previous 5G report. T-Mobile maintains a clear edge on our two measures of a network’s extent — 5G Availability and 5G Reach — as well as a firm lead on 5G Download Speed and 5G Upload Speed.
Quantifying the mmWave 5G experience in the US — July update
Opensignal analyzed the U.S. mobile experience on mmWave 5G, a subset of 5G experience which is significantly different to other types of 5G services. We found the fastest average mmWave 5G download speed of 618.4 Mbps using Verizon.
Greece, July 2021, Mobile Network Experience
In our <a href='https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2021/01/greece/mobile-network-experience' target='_blank'>previous report</a>, Cosmote was the outright winner of the Video Experience award by a margin of two points.
Bangladesh, July 2021, Mobile Network Experience
With four outright wins and one shared victory, Banglalink dominates Opensignal’s awards table. The operator solely claims the Video, Games and Voice App Experience awards and individually wins the Download Speed Experience award, just shy of the 10 Mbps milestone. Grameenphonem, Airtel and Robi jointly win the 4G Availability award.
Sri Lanka, July 2021, Mobile Network Experience
In our latest look at the mobile network experience in Sri Lanka, we see significant changes in our awards table. Dialog snatched the Download Speed Experience and Video Experience awards away from Mobitel, while also forcing statistical ties for Games Experience and Voice App experience awards with this operator.
Understanding Canada’s rural mobile network experience – July 2021
Opensignal's latest analysis shows that users' mobile experience in Canada varies greatly depending on proximity to urban areas demonstrating that a clear divide continues to exist between the urban and rural mobile network experience. Our rural users observed average download speeds less than half than that of our users in Large population centers (Large PCs) on all three carriers.
