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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How Singaporeans’ roaming experience in Malaysia is affected by their choice of operator
Opensignal has analyzed how three measures of the mobile user experience vary between international roamers from Singapore and domestic users in Malaysia.
Analyzing AT&T’s spectrum usage to understand its 5G rollout plans
Opensignal is investigating how different U.S. carriers have been using their spectrum holdings to launch 5G services.
Ireland, March 2020, Mobile Network Experience
The average download speeds of 24.1 Mbps enjoyed by Vodafone's users were 43% faster than 3's speeds, and 64% faster than third placed eir's speeds.
Southeast Asia: Connecting the dots between economic activity and mobile experience
We found a strong correlation between mobile Download Speed Experience and the GDP per capita of countries across southeast and south Asia. Our approach revealed a completely different landscape compared with looking at Download Speed Experience, Games Experience or other measures of mobile network experience in isolation.
Vadodara tops Video Experience as Tier-2 cities lead in India
Over the past few years India has seen a tremendous rise in smartphone penetration and access to wireless internet, making it increasingly convenient to consume online content at any time, anywhere, leading to a two-fold growth in digital video consumption in all forms of media in the past two years.
How AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon differ in their early 5G approach
There’s lots of confusion around 5G, in part because each U.S. carrier has taken a different initial approach to 5G. In this new analysis, Opensignal tested 5G in downtown areas of U.S. cities to quantify these differences in the early 5G services from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon.
Sri Lanka, February 2020, Mobile Network Experience
In Opensignal’s first national report on Sri Lanka’s mobile network experience one operator dominated our award table. Dialog won four of our seven awards outright, and by very large margins in all of the categories. Mobitel was the closest to Dialog. The operator won two categories outright, tied with Dialog in Download Speed Experience and came in strong second in several of our metrics. However, Hutch and Airtel clearly have some catching up to do, especially with the latter being a 3G-only operator.
