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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Costa Rica, August 2017, Mobile Networks Update
In our first update on Costa Rica, published in partnership with Sutel, Opensignal has refreshed the data we published in Opensignal's June State of Mobile Networks report, showing what has changed since we last visited the Central American state two months ago. (
USA, August 2017, State of Mobile Networks
Six months after reintroducing unlimited plans, Verizon and AT&T experienced a marked decline in 4G speeds in our tests.
South Africa, August 2017, State of Mobile Networks
Vodacom set itself apart with a trio of wins and an equal number of top-of-the-table draws in our six metrics.
Peru, August 2017, State of Mobile Networks
Out of the six categories we measure, Entel won three of them outright -- 4G availability, 3G download speed and 4G latency -- and was tied for first in the remaining three: 4G download speed, overall speed and 3G latency..
Cambodia, August 2017, State of Mobile Networks
Cellcard easily topped our 4G speed rankings, averaging LTE download speeds of 19.7 Mbps.
Analyzing the impact of unlimited data in the US
Last week OpenSignal <a href="/blog/2017/07/24/introducing-opensignals-new-peak-speed-metric/">unveiled a new experimental metric</a> called average peak speed, which is designed to gauge a network’s full data connection capabilities under optimal conditions.
Introducing OpenSignal's new peak speed metric
Every few years, operators announce some big new network or network enhancement that promises to blow the doors off whatever our current mobile data speeds happen to be at the time.
