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South Africa, February 2022, Mobile Network Experience

By Robert Wyrzykowski, February 2022

In this report on Mobile Network Experience in South Africa, we saw seven outright wins secured by three different operators. Vodacom collects the most awards — the three experiential trophies along with the 4G Coverage Experience award. MTN firmly snatched the speed awards, while Telkom claims its only award for 4G Availability.

5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2021

By Hardik Khatri, September 2021

Now for the first time Opensignal ranks the world's 5G operators using our leading measures of the real-world mobile network experience.

Mobile download speed recovery stories vary in markets around the world

By Robert Wyrzykowski, August 2021

To understand what the new normal looks like for mobile experience, Opensignal is updating our previous analysis of the impact of the pandemic and changed user behavior on the mobile experience with new data.

Quantifying the Impact of 5G and COVID-19 on Mobile Data Consumption

By Francesco Rizzato, Ian Fogg, June 2021

Opensignal has analyzed data consumption in 20 leading 5G markets and discovered the extent to which 5G users are consuming more data than their 4G peers. We have also analyzed overall data consumption in 65 markets.

The State of Group Video Calling Experience – Europe, Middle East and Africa

By Robert Wyrzykowski, May 2021

Opensignal has analyzed 30 countries in Europe and 18 in the Middle East and Africa in our first mobile Group Video Calling Experience report for the MENA region. In Europe, the Netherlands turned out to be the unchallenged winner, with an astounding score of 92.4 points.

Benchmarking the Global 5G Experience – April 2021

By Ian Fogg, April 2021

Cities have a significantly better 5G experience than the national 5G results. For example, users in the city of Jeonju in South Korea have a 5G Download Speed of 415.6 Mbps which is 15% faster than South Korea's overall result.

Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2021

By Sam Fenwick, March 2021

Last year, to celebrate Opensignal’s 10th anniversary, we ranked the world's operators using our leading measures of the real-world mobile network experience. It was so well received that we’ve chosen to publish the awards again.