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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France, May 2020, Mobile Network Experience
Our Orange users observed much faster download and upload speeds than their counterparts on other networks, clocking in at an eye-wateringly quick 41.7 Mbps for Download Speed Experience and 9.0 Mbps for Upload Speed Experience. However, SFR and Bouygues were the only French operators where our users observed 4G Availability scores in excess of 90%.
Poland, May 2020, Mobile Network Experience
In Opensignal’s inaugural analysis of Poland we found that Orange dominated our awards winning five of our seven awards.
The State of Mobile Network Experience 2020: One year into the 5G Era
One year on from the first launch of 5G services for smartphone users back in April 2019, Opensignal looks at what’s changed across 100 countries globally on six different measures of the mobile network experience, including upload and download speed, video, voice and games experience, along with the percentage of time that 4G users spent connected to a 4G network (4G Availability).
Germany, May 2020, Mobile Network Experience
In our latest look at the Mobile Network Experience report in Germany we can see that Telekom is still dominating our awards table winning five out of seven national awards and tying in one more. But things are not as rosy as they might seem for Telekom.
Erlebnis in Mobilfunknetzen: Deutschland, Mai 2020
Telekom hat fünf unserer sieben nationalen Auszeichnungen gewonnen, darunter für das Erlebnis der 4G-Netzabdeckung, aber verlor die Auszeichnung für Sprachnachrichten-Apps an Vodafone.
Hong Kong, May 2020, Mobile Network Experience
The experience that SmarTone users enjoyed when playing multiplayer mobile games was Good with a score of 76.3 on a 0-100 scale.
Mobile networks in Italy are more resilient in urban areas than in rural during the crisis
As Italy imposed restrictions last month owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, operators have reported a dramatic surge in mobile data usage which has affected the mobile network experience of users across the country. Overall, Italy’s mobile operators have offered a highly resilient service, especially to urban users.
