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T-Mobile's Metronet Joint Venture is now complete in the US — What Happens When 5G and Fiber Join Forces?

By Fiona Armstrong-Mills, September 2025

Metronet is the new frontier of T-Mobile’s mobile and broadband bundling strategy. Using Opensignal’s Broadband MarketVision Subscriber Analytics data, we examine how and why Metronet strengthens T-Mobile’s position in the converged mobile and broadband market

Experienced Speed Tiers vs. Subscribed Speed Tiers: The Bottleneck of Home Wi-Fi

By Andrey Popov, Simon Lumb, July 2025

In this insight, we look at the percentage of households in a country achieving specific broadband speed levels, based on real-world measurements taken from users’ devices. Unlike operators’ and regulators’ reported data on speed tier adoption, these indicators reflect the entire delivery path, from content source to household to device, offering a more accurate and comprehensive picture of a country’s broadband reality.

USA, June 2025, Mobile Network Experience

By Fiona Armstrong-Mills, June 2025

In this report on the mobile network experience in the U.S., T-Mobile takes the lion's share of awards.

USA, June 2025, Fixed Broadband Experience MSA View

By Fiona Armstrong-Mills, June 2025

This report examines Broadband Experience in the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the U.S. It compares user experience across technologies to give a more complete picture of our users’ real-world experience.

USA, Fixed Broadband Experience, May 2025

By Fiona Armstrong-Mills, Opensignal, May 2025

This report focuses on national brand perception in the U.S. looking at five key measures of the broadband user experience: Download Speed, Upload Speed, Consistent Quality, Video Experience and Reliability Experience.

How ISP-issued gateways drive better home broadband in the U.S.

By Andrey Popov, Chris Mills, April 2025

Customers using ISP-provided equipment enjoy a noticeably better broadband experience, with higher Reliability and Consistent Quality scores across U.S. providers. The benefits are especially pronounced for users on fiber plans where modern gateways are bundled by default.

Slow but steady: The quiet growth of brand MVNOs

By Robert Wyrzykowski, April 2025

Opensignal is analyzing the network and market performance of brand MVNOs, compared to MNOs. The MVNOs see sometimes inferior mobile network experience but are still gaining subscribers from MNOs, due to the factors subscribers value in their market choices.