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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Austria, April 2021, Mobile Network Experience
In our third report on Mobile Network Experience in Austria, A1 dominates the award table again, with four outright wins and two joint victories with Magenta, while 3 takes home one award.
Mexico, April 2021, Mobile Network Experience
In our latest report on Mexico, Telcel again dominates the awards with five outright wins across the awards that it won back in October 2020. This time, however, AT&T managed to snatch the Voice App Experience award away from Telcel.
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.
Vietnam, March 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Viettel Mobile remains the operator to beat but MobiFone wins the Upload Speed Experience award outright.
Ireland, March 2021, Mobile Network Experience
3 overtakes Vodafone to win the Download Speed Experience award.
Egypt, March 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Vodafone becomes Egypt’s first operator to push past the 80% 4G Availability mark.
In the 5G era, Canada is losing global leadership due to spectrum challenges
Canada has some of the fastest 4G networks in the world. But 5G is more challenging because Canada’s operators have had access to less new 5G wireless spectrum than operators in many other countries. So, how does Canada fare when it comes to its 5G network experience?
