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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Costa Rica, Mobile Network Experience, June 2023
In Opensignal's latest analysis of the mobile network experience in Costa Rica, Claro has once again emerged as the leader, winning all five overall experience awards for the second consecutive report.
Austria’s highways and railways see faster overall mobile speeds than the rest of the country
Opensignal analyzed our users’ mobile experience on Austria’s highways and railways and compared that against the average scores seen in the country. We found that our smartphone users generally have a better mobile experience when on motorways and spend more time connected to 5G services and less time with no signal, compared to the country average. Our A1 users experience the fastest download speeds in these areas — meanwhile, those on Magenta’s network see the fastest upload speeds around railways.
El Salvador, June 2023, Mobile Network Experience
Claro sweeps the awards table, winning all the awards — jointly or outright. Tigo and Claro come top for Availability and 4G Availability.
Italian operators maintain consistent quality while implementing energy-saving practices
In this analysis, Opensignal examines some of the energy saving practices implemented by national mobile operators in Italy. On all five national operators — Fastweb, Iliad, TIM, Vodafone and WindTre our users see fewer 4G spectrum bands available at night. On 5G networks this practice is predominantly adopted by Iliad. Despite these changes to spectrum bands our users enjoy consistent connection quality during the time these practices are in effect.
Analyzing Taiwan’s pre-merger mobile experience
There have been two mergers of major mobile operators approved in Taiwan, FarEasTone’s acquisition of Asia Pacific Telecom (GT) and Taiwan Mobile’s acquisition of Taiwan Star (T Star). In this new analysis we examine the pre-merger regional results for each of the four operators; using key mobile experience metrics to get a picture of how the separate companies measured up to one another — this allows us to see the potential for positive change that the to-be-merged networks have.
台灣業者合併前行動體驗分析
在台灣，兩宗主要行動業者合併已獲批准：遠傳電信收購亞太電信，台灣大哥大收購台灣之星。在這份新分析報告中，我們檢測了四家業者合併前的區域結果；使用關鍵行動體驗指標來瞭解各業者之間的比較。這使我們能夠看到即將合併的網路所具有的積極變化的潛力。
U.S. theme parks see a better mobile network experience than the national average
In this new analysis, Opensignal looks at the mobile network experience of our smartphone users who visited some of the most attended amusement parks in the U.S., to see how their experience compared to the national averages, and between the included parks and operators.
