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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The US smartphone speed race: how Apple, Google, LG, OnePlus and Samsung compare
Smartphone makers are moving quickly to implement the latest 5G technologies with the aim of improving users’ mobile experience. Here, Opensignal analyzes our latest real-world data to see how users' experience with 5G models from the five leading 5G brands varies.
Slovakia, March 2021, Mobile Network Experience
In Opensignal's measure of the mobile multiplayer gaming experience, Telekom leads the competition by almost five points on a 100point scale.
Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2021
Last year, to celebrate Opensignal’s 10th anniversary, we ranked the world's operators using our leading measures of the real-world mobile network experience. It was so well received that we’ve chosen to publish the awards again.
Morocco, March 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Opensignal’s first operator-level report in Morocco shows that one operator dominates this country’s mobile network experience landscape.
How Italy’s mobile data surge during 2020 affected mobile experience
Opensignal analyzed Italian smartphone users’ monthly average mobile data consumption and Download Speed Experience across the four national operators in 2020. We found that users on all mobile networks experienced a similar pattern where Download Speed Experience temporarily decreased as mobile data consumption surged.
Understanding where and when users can experience 5G in South Korea
It’s clear from the many different potential ways to measure users’ experience and mobile networks that there is no single correct way to measure the extent of a mobile network. Opensignal’s two different measures — 5G Availability and 5G Reach — represent the network experience of users.
Sri Lanka, February 2021, Mobile Network Experience
In our latest look at the mobile network experience in Sri Lanka, Mobitel continues to hold the lion’s share of our awards.
