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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Indonesia’s top cities on mobile games experience — Palangka Raya, Pekanbaru and Banda Aceh
Indonesia is the largest mobile games market in Southeast Asia — both by players and by revenue. But how good or bad is the gaming experience on Indonesian mobile networks?
South Korea, June 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Award-winner SK Telecom is the first operator in South Korea to see its users enjoying an Excellent Video Experience with a score of 75.5 on a one hundred point scale.
Why Rakuten’s mobile experience is set to challenge Japan and the world
Rakuten is a new challenger operator in Japan that launched on April 8, competing with NTT DoCoMo, KDDI’s au and SoftBank. The company’s CTO, Tareq Amin, has marketed Rakuten’s network technology approach to the mobile industry worldwide. Unlike most existing networks, the company aims to make extensive use of virtualization and containerization throughout its network as well as embrace OpenRAN in its base stations.
なぜ楽天のモバイル・エクスペリエンスが日本又は世界への課題となり得るのか
楽天は日本における新たなチャレンジャーとして、NTTドコモやKDDIのau、ソフトバンクの競合として、4月8日にその事業を開始させた。楽天は挑戦的な価格帯を設定している。そこには顧客が自社の無線ネットワークを使用する場合には、無制限データを提供するという「無制限プラン」も含まれている。楽天がまだ自社のネットワークを構築できておらず、KDDIのネットワークに依存しているような地域でのローミングにおいては5GBの上限を設けるものである
Taiwan, June 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Gaming is important to Taiwanese users and they benefit from having a good overall gaming experience.
行動網路體驗報告 2020年6月
遊戲對台灣用戶很重要，整體良好的遊戲體驗也可以讓用戶受益。五分之三的台灣電信業者在Opensignal新<a href=https://www.opensignal.com/2019/01/03/understanding-mobile-network-experience-what-do-opensignals-metrics-mean target=_blank>遊戲體驗獎</a>中獲得了“良好評級”，”該獎項衡量了行動用戶在電信業者網路上即時多人連線對戰手機遊戲的體驗。台灣大哥大、中華電信（CHT）和遠傳（FET）均取得了75分及以上的成績（<a href=https://www.opensignal.com/2019/01/03/understanding-mobile-network-experience-what-do-opensignals-metrics-mean target=_blank>評分範圍0-100分</a>),但台灣大哥大以80.5分的成績領先，成為Opensignal遊戲體驗獎的得主。“良好評級”意味著遊戲互動整體可控，用戶在遊戲中的操控可以得到即時響應。.
Reporte sobre la experiencia de red móvil: Costa Rica
En nuestro último vistazo a Costa Rica, Kölbi sigue siendo el operador dominante en la mayoría de nuestras mediciones de experiencia móvil, pero podemos ver que esto comienza a cambiar a medida que los demás operadores están cerrando lentamente la brecha.
