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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Quantifying The Mobile Experience of Group Video Calls
Opensignal has used an innovative approach to analyze group video calling across 75 countries starting from real-world measures of our users' voice and video experience. 5G made a significant difference to this measure and we have also assessed how it varies across the hours of the day.
Israel, December 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Partner and Pelephone shared our Video Experience award but Hot Mobile showed a massive increase.
As Brazil’s 4G Availability continues to improve, Belo Horizonte surpasses the 90% mark
Our analysis shows that over the past year, since Q3 2019, 4G networks in Brazil have continued to progress towards maturity. During this period, the national 4G Availability of our Brazillian users grew by 4.5 percentage points to 79.9%, while those in the top 10 cities reported uneven growth on this measure, ranging between one and 4.8 percentage points.
Globe and Smart’s networks withstand daily surges in demand
Our users in the Philippines observe their best experience in terms of 4G download speeds, latency and video streaming in the early hours of the morning, but both Smart and Globe have engineered their networks to the point that our users can rely on mobile connections even during the busiest times of the day for most tasks.
South Korea, December 2020, 5G User Experience
South Korea continues to be the leading country in 5G adoption globally with millions of mobile users enjoying blisteringly fast 5G services that are widely available.
Turkey, December 2020, Mobile Network Experience
We have seen a lot of change since our last report. Vodafone swept away our Games Experience award, which was held by Türk Telekom earlier. At the same time, Türk Telekom was able to force Turkcell into a statistical tie for Upload Speed Experience. While these changes are visible on our awards table, we found a strong competition brewing under the surface
Benchmarking Malaysia’s 4G mobile network experience before the JENDELA initiative
Recently, the Government of Malaysia announced a multi-billion dollar national digital infrastructure plan, Jalinan Digital Negara (JENDELA), to improve the country’s digital infrastructure and connectivity.
