South Korea, December 2025, Mobile Network Experience
SK Telecom continues to lead the awards landscape in South Korea, securing 9 awards outright and sharing 3 additional wins. Meanwhile, LG U+ and KT each hold three awards, LG U+ triumphs for 5G Availability, while KT for 5G Download Speed.
Feb 2026
Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2026
Opensignal sheds light on the difference in the experience seen by our users on different operators across the globe — to better inform users, operators and regulators.
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The State of Mobile Voice App Experience
Voice apps offer flexibility across a number of devices and networks, and have soared in popularity as smartphones become more and more ubiquitous.But what's the mobile user experience like on these voice apps
on today's mobile networks?
5G users now experience max download speeds over 1000 Mbps in 4 countries
As more operators in more countries launch 5G services, Opensignal has again analyzed the maximum speed that our 5G smartphone users have experienced, updating our previous analysis of 5G maximum speeds.
South Korea, June 2019, Mobile Network Experience
All three South Korean operators were able to deliver a 4G signal to our users more than 95% of the time, putting them among the global elite in 4G reach.
5G smartphone users experience 111.8 Mbps average download speed
<span>5G is here, but how fast is it? </span><a href="https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/south-korea-nears-5g-landmark/">In the first country to see widespread 5G adoption</a>, South Korea, Opensignal’s analytics reveals the average download speed of 5G smartphone owners is 111.8 Mbps or 48% faster than users with comparable recent 4G flagship smartphones<sup>1</sup> and 134% higher than other 4G smartphone users.
Mobile download speeds in Seoul are 41% faster than Singapore or Sydney
Smartphone users in Seoul experience the fastest speeds in any of the Asia Pacific cities we analyzed. Seoul’s Download Speed Experience score of 56.3 Mbps was an astonishing 41% faster than second- placed Singapore or third-placed Sydney, and almost double that of Tokyo or Taipei.
A big gap exists between the best and worst countries for video experience in East Asia
Of all of the global regions we analyzed in our <a href="/reports/2018/09/state-of-mobile-video">State of Mobile Video report</a>, East Asia definitely had the most diverse results.
Seoul top city in East Asia with 4G availability of nearly 98%
At OpenSignal we are currently in the process of boosting our coverage of East Asia, having launched reports in the last six months on <a href="/reports/2018/02/cambodia/mobile-networks-update">Cambodia</a>, <a href="/reports/2018/06/indonesia/state-of-the-mobile-network">Indonesia</a>, <a href="/reports/2018/05/myanmar/state-of-the-mobile-network">Myanmar</a>, <a href="/reports/2018/05/singapore/state-of-the-mobile-network">Singapore</a>, <a href="/reports/2017/12/taiwan/mobile-networks-update">Taiwan</a> and <a href="/reports/2018/04/thailand/mobile-networks-update">Thailand</a>.
