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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Qatar, November 2023, Mobile Network Experience
The fastest experience is with Ooredoo, but Vodafone stays on top for Availability. Ooredoo wins both new coverage experience awards.
UAE, November 2023, Mobile Network Experience
In this Opensignal report on the mobile network experience in the United Arab Emirates, Du hangs on to its wins for both overall and 5G Availability, while the most consistent experience is with Etisalat.
الإمارات العربية المتحدة، نوفمبر 2023، تجربة شبكات الهاتف الجوّال
في هذا التقرير من Opensignal ,حول تجربة شبكة الهاتف الجوّال في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، تتمسك شركة Du بانتصاراتها في كل من التوفر الإجمالي وشبكة 5G، في حين أن التجربة الأكثر اتساقًا كانت مع "اتصالات.
The rural-urban mobile experience gap varies significantly between Brazilian states
There are also staggering differences in rural-urban gaps between Brazilian states, with some states’ rural areas seeing more than 30% slower average download speeds or five to seven times more time spent with no signal than in the cities and towns.
Canada’s Indigenous Areas observe a significant uplift in mobile experience with 5G
Indigenous Areas spend more time connected to an active 5G signal compared to the national average. With 5G, users in these areas observe a significant uplift in their mobile speeds, video streaming and multiplayer gaming experience compared to the overall experience, higher than that seen nationally. Additionally, 5G has also helped reduce some of the disparities between the experience of users in these areas and the national average.
In some Southeast Asian markets, more than one in five of smartphone users connect to the Internet only on mobile networks
In the latest regional benchmark analysis Opensignal looks at the proportions of smartphone users in ten Southeast Asian markets, who rarely or never connect to Wi-Fi services. The analysis shows a diverse picture between Southeast Asian markets.
Colombia, Fixed Broadband Experience, November 2023
Opensignal has analyzed our users’ real-world data across Colombia, nationally and also focusing on five cities – Bogota, Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla and Cartagena. Our Movistar users see unmatched speed experience on average across the country, as Movistar outperforms the compared providers — Claro and Tigo. Claro users have the best experience in Broadband Consistent Quality across Colombia on average, with a 4.9 percentage point advantage over second-placed Movistar.
