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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Mexico, October 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Telcel continues to win on Voice App Experience, but scores fall across the board; AT&T nibbles away at Telcel’s lead on Upload Speed Experience.
Japan, October 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Earlier in 2020, Rakuten launched its own network, and as a result this is the first time we have included Rakuten in an Opensignal Japan Mobile Network Experience report.
Video Experience in the Philippines has improved by nearly 30% since Q3 2018
The Video Experience and Latency Experience observed by our users in the Philippines improved by 29.5% and 19.6%, respectively, between Q3 2018 and Q1 2020.
Malaysia, September 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Our U Mobile users saw the largest improvement in 4G Availability — the average percentage of time that our 4G users spent connected to 4G services — compared to our <a href='https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2020/04/malaysia/mobile-network-experience' target='_blank'>last report</a>.
Ireland, September 2020, Mobile Network Experience
The experience of Irish users differs greatly across the operators with 3 users' experience of 18.2 Mbps in second place, and eir in last place with 15.8 Mbps.
The 5G iPhone: Lessons from existing 5G smartphones
Users on current 5G brands have seen 5G average download speeds between 1.6 and 1.9 times faster than 4G in the U.S. Apple and Google are the last two major U.S. smartphone brands to launch 5G models. The first 5G iPhones will reignite the race to 5G because the iPhone represents about half of the US market.
Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2020
For the very first time Opensignal is providing a comprehensive comparison of mobile network experience globally at the operator-level across five key measures of mobile network experience.
