Understanding 5G Availability in US Cities
Posted: Nov 24, 2020
The 5G market continues to change rapidly in the U.S. as carriers increase the reach of their 5G services or deploy new types of 5G spectrum to improve capacity.
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5G users on average consume up to 2.7x more mobile data compared to 4G users
Posted: Oct 21, 2020
The latest generation of mobile technology, 5G, doesn’t just enable much faster average speeds than 4G, it also adds a tremendous amount of new capacity. 5G allows operators to tap into new higher frequency bands above 3GHz that have never been previously used for mobile services.
Benchmarking the global 5G user experience – October update
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Opensignal has previously analyzed the real-world 5G experience of our users across mobile operators in a number of countries globally, including Australia, the U.S. and South Korea.
Analyzing mobile data consumption and experience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Posted: Oct 05, 2020
Opensignal’s data shows that short-term variations in average mobile data consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic correlated with variations in our users’ average Download Speed Experience across multiple countries. In part, this is because other ways of improving capacity such as additional wireless spectrum, could not be brought into use quickly in most countries to help with changed mobile usage.
5G download speed is now faster than Wifi in seven leading 5G countries
Posted: May 06, 2020
Opensignal’s latest analysis demonstrates that 5G greatly improves the real-world speeds that users experience. And, even more significantly, 5G offers faster average download speeds than Wifi in seven out of eight leading 5G countries.
T-Mobile boosts mobile speeds thanks to spectrum support from FCC, Dish, others
Posted: Apr 08, 2020
On Friday, March 13, the FCC’s chairman Pai launched the Keep Americans Connected Pledge calling for U.S. telecom companies to adopt additional measures and ensure Americans remain connected during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Analyzing AT&T’s spectrum usage to understand its 5G rollout plans
Posted: Mar 09, 2020
Opensignal is investigating how different U.S. carriers have been using their spectrum holdings to launch 5G services. In this first analysis, we have looked into AT&T’s spectrum use of its 850MHz band, which the operator used to launch its low-band 5G service in December 2019, in order to shed light on AT&T’s 5G approach.
How AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon differ in their early 5G approach
Posted: Feb 20, 2020
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We recorded the fastest average 5G download speed of 722.9 Mbps on Verizon’s 5G network.
USA Mobile Network Experience Report Results Are In
Posted: Jan 23, 2020
While 5G is Ramping Up, U.S. Operators Deliver Big Improvement to Video Experience and LTE Download Speed According to Opensignal USA Mobile Network Experience Report
Verizon and AT&T Lead the Pack with awards in Six of Seven Categories
How to hasten US 3G switch-off to accelerate 5G
Posted: Dec 18, 2019
At the dawn of 5G, there are still a significant number of U.S. users on 3G networks that have never even connected to a 4G network. This creates an interesting challenge as U.S. carriers are hungry for more mid-band spectrum so they can more widely deploy 5G services. There is a scarcity of prime mid-band 5G spectrum in the U.S. as compared with other countries.