From last resort to first choice: Why Starlink is gaining new customers worldwide
For decades, satellite internet in rural areas was a reluctant compromise. However, by early 2026, this dynamic has changed. Starlink is no longer just filling broadband gaps — it’s actively disrupting the market as a compelling alternative.
The Urban Fortress Strategy: Navigating India’s Localized 5G Landscape
India’s telecom market is shifting toward experience-led differentiation. Opensignal’s data shows competitive advantage is increasingly local, with operators winning where network performance and commercial strategy align to drive acquisition and retention.
TIM and Vodafone 5G RAN sharing — quantifying coverage gains and network experience improvements
The 5G RAN sharing agreement announced on 7 January 2026 by TIM and Fastweb+Vodafone is set to deliver immediate network-level benefits in rural Italy: better 5G experience, wider 5G rural coverage, and improved consistency without any increase in spectrum holdings.
5G Standalone State of Play: Architecture Deployed, Monetisation Pending
5G Standalone is scaling globally — but performance and monetisation remain uneven. Opensignal’s latest analysis reveals where SA is delivering real latency and consistency gains, and how operators can turn measurable local experience improvements into competitive advantage ahead of MWC 2026.
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Saudi Arabia, April 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Saudi Arabia’s operators have made healthy progress with their users observing improvements in their mobile experience across the vast majority of our metrics
モバイル・ネットワーク・エクスペリエンス: 日本 2020 年 4 月
モバイル・ビデオ・エクスペリエンスに関するOpensignal独自の計測において、ソフトバンクは、KDDI auのスコア（77.5ポイント）とNTTドコモの（77.0ポイント）をわずかに上回る80.4ポイントのビデオ・エクスペリエンススコアを獲得しました。これらのスコアを獲得した日本の通信事業者は世界トップクラスの評価を受けています。他国の事業者がこのような高いスコアを達成することは稀です.
Japan, April 2020, Mobile Network Experience
In Opensignal’s unique real-world measure of mobile video experience, SoftBank’s users enjoyed a Video Experience score of 80.4 on our 0-100 point scale, slightly ahead of KDDI au’s score of 77.5 and NTT DoCoMo's 77.0.
UAE, April 2020, Mobile Network Experience
UAE surpassed the 90% <a href=https://www.opensignal.com/2019/01/03/understanding-mobile-network-experience-what-do-opensignals-metrics-mean target=_blank>4G Availability</a> milestone.
T-Mobile boosts mobile speeds thanks to spectrum support from FCC, Dish, others
Opensignal analyzed T-Mobile’s use of the 600 MHz spectrum in the top 100 U.S. Cellular Market Areas (CMAs) during March, and found that T-Mobile took less than three days to start deploying the additional spectrum it received from companies including Dish, Bluewater Wireless, LB Holdings and others.
Philippines, April 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Smart broke away from Globe in the six months since our last report to take the 4G Availability award.
Mobile Experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: 4G Download Speed
Globally, operators report mobile data use is increasing dramatically but Opensignal’s analytics demonstrate that despite these challenges the mobile experience is holding up well. Opensignal has seen only relatively small changes in users’ 4G Download Speeds in some countries, and none at all in other countries.
