Video Experience | Opensignal

Quantifying the new 5G Enhanced services in the US

Posted: Jul 26, 2022

In an industry first, Opensignal has analyzed U.S. users’ mobile experience when they are connected to premium 5G services on the three U.S. carriers: AT&T’s 5G+, T-Mobile’s Ultra Capacity 5G (5G UC) and Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband (5G UW). For this analysis, we refer to all of these offerings as Enhanced 5G for convenience. These services offer a markedly better experience than 5G based on lower frequency bands, which are often reused from 4G.

Analyzing the mobile adaptive video experience in the US

Posted: Jul 12, 2022

The 5G experience is improving fast in the U.S. with C-Band and 2.5 GHz spectrum increasing capacities and making higher quality video streaming possible. As a result, Opensignal takes its first look at our U.S. users’ mobile video experience using Adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR).

Despite interference concerns, 5G already offers a better user experience at the busiest US airports

Posted: Jun 23, 2022

The rollout of 5G services around U.S. airports has sparked concerns in the aeronautical industry about 5G technology interfering with altimeter equipment. As a result, AT&T and Verizon have delayed deployments of their 5G infrastructure in the C-band close to airports until July 2023.

Analyzing how 5G has improved the mobile experience on Germany’s motorways

Posted: Apr 07, 2022

Coverage issues and mobile white spots have been a key area of focus in Germany for a long time.

Benchmarking the 5G Experience – EMEA – June 2021

Posted: Jun 04, 2021

Across Europe and the Middle East we see a wide range of 5G experience because of different deployment strategies and types of spectrum available for 5G services. In every country our users saw a much better mobile experience using 5G than was possible previously with 4G or 3G network technologies.

Benchmarking the global 5G experience

Posted: Feb 03, 2021

5G is still near the beginning of its decade-long era. No mobile technology stands still, so we must continue to analyze the real-world experience and see how it changes and improves. Here we analyze Opensignal’s global 5G data from real mobile users to identify the leading countries and quantify their 5G mobile experience.

The Mobile Future: Predictions for 2021 and Beyond

Posted: Dec 21, 2020

and Francesco Rizzato, Sam Fenwick, Hardik Khatri

Video Experience in the Philippines has improved by nearly 30% since Q3 2018

Posted: Sep 30, 2020

As we noted in our previous analysis on the Philippines’ mobile network experience,

Mobile networks in the Philippines are more resilient in urban areas than in rural during the crisis

Posted: May 25, 2020

In the Philippines, video has been a big driver of data consumption, and with measures such as the General community quarantine (GCQ) and Enhanced community quarantine (

TPG users’ download speed and video experience evolve in different directions

Posted: Nov 14, 2019

New mobile network operator, TPG, launched a new service at the start of 2019 in an unusual way. They have initially offered unlimited mobile data for 12 months, including unlimited mobile calls within Singapore and a range of other benefits. While marketed as a trial, the extensive services offered still raised the competitive pressure on existing players Singtel, M1 and StarHub.