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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実際の「オン・ネット」楽天ネットワーク・エクスペリエンスを数値で表す
先日弊社が発表した 日本モバイル・ネットワーク・エクスペリエンス報告書 で、 楽天はアップロード速度エクスペリエンス・アワードを受賞しました。これは新規ネットワーク、特に楽天の自社ネットワークが未だ利用可能ではない地域のユーザーに対して国内のローミング・パートナーであるKDDIにサービスを依存しているネットワークとしては、快挙です。
5G users on average consume up to 2.7x more mobile data compared to 4G users
Opensignal has analyzed our 5G smartphone users' average mobile data consumption in six leading 5G countries and found that in the month of September 2020, on average, they consumed up to 2.7 times more mobile data compared to 4G users.
Quantifying the real ‘on-net’ Rakuten network experience
We see a much better mobile experience when Rakuten users are connected to its own radio network. The average Upload Speed Experience is two and a half times faster on-net than when roaming. We analyze how Rakuten's 'on-net' mobile network experience varies across cities in Japan and what it means for the future.
Australia, October 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Telstra impresses at the city level, scooping up almost half of the available awards and being the only operator to win awards outright.
Austria, October 2020, Mobile Network Experience
A1’s lead on Download Speed Experience widens by 2.5 Mbps; despite declines across the board, our Austrian users still observed an Excellent Video Experience on all operators.
India’s top cities for mobile games experience
Opensignal analyzed the mobile network experience in 48 of India’s largest cities to see how they stacked up on our Games Experience metric.
Uruguay, October 2020, Mobile Network Experience
In our last look at Uruguay’s mobile network experience landscape, Antel remained the dominant operator across the majority of our mobile experience measurements, but we can see this starting to change as its peers are now slowly closing the gap.
