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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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.
Peru, Mobile Network Experience February 2020
Movistar users see an almost 10 point increase in Video Experience, catapulting it to first place and from Fair to Good, while Claro has made good but more modest progress in this metric.
Pakistan, February 2020, Mobile Network Experience
We have analyzed Pakistan’s mobile networks on several occasions in our global reports. But in this report, we've delved deeper to analyze the mobile network experience of our Pakistani users, across the country, over the 90 days from the start of October 1, 2019, to see how the four operators— Jazz, Ufone, Zong and Telenor — stack up on real-world measurements.
