Video Experience | Opensignal

Amsterdam tops Europe's rugby cities for 4G video loading

Posted: Jan 31, 2019

This month sees the start of the 6 Nations rugby championship — one of the oldest competitions in the sport featuring the cream of European rugby union. And from the moment these games kick off, there will be millions of fans looking to stream live video feeds and highlights to their mobile phones across the continent. But how many of these fans wanting to see the top tries and tackles will be frustrated by waiting for their mobile videos to load?

What’s in store for mobile in 2019? Opensignal’s predictions for the coming year

Posted: Jan 02, 2019

It’s been a pretty busy year here at Opensignal. And 2018 was an interesting time in the mobile world overall, with data abuse and increased regulation casting something of a shadow over some of the top tech launches of the year. But what can we expect in 2019?

MTN takes the prize in a close South Africa video experience race

Posted: Nov 13, 2018

OpenSignal's recent report on the South Africa mobile market showed something of a two-horse race. While Vodacom dominated our awards table, taking six out of seven of our mobile experience crowns, MTN won our coveted 4G availability award and came a close second in almost all our other categories. But in our new video experience analysis, MTN didn't have to settle for second in the awards table: it scored a narrow win over Vodacom in our overall video experience measurements.

A big gap exists between the best and worst countries for video experience in East Asia

Posted: Oct 31, 2018

Of all of the global regions we analyzed in our State of Mobile Video report, East Asia definitely had the most diverse results. The western edge of the Pacific is home to countries that scored among the highest in our video experience rankings. It's also home to some countries that ranked among the lowest.

Canada's Bell and Telus have the edge over Rogers in video experience

Posted: Oct 30, 2018

In our State of Mobile Video Report, the Americas didn't compare that favorably with Europe in mobile video quality, but one country did stand out in the New World. Canada was one of two countries we examined in the Americas that commanded a Good score in our video experience rankings, beating out not only the big nations of Latin America but also its huge neighbor to the south, the U.S.

Europe shone in our mobile video experience analysis – but the winner wasn't who you'd expect

Posted: Oct 23, 2018

Last month, OpenSignal published its inaugural State of Mobile Video report, which analyzed how consumers experienced video over mobile networks in 69 countries around the world. And the headline news is: a European country came top of our analysis. But it wasn't one you would expect. As part of a series of blog posts looking at specific regions we cover, we're now taking an in-depth look at the mobile video experience in Europe, and how the countries fared against each other.

Canada and Bolivia lead the Americas in our video experience analysis

Posted: Oct 16, 2018

OpenSignal recently published its first State of Mobile Video report, which analyzed how consumers experienced video over mobile networks in 69 countries around the world. Now we're drilling down into the specifics of various regions, starting first with the Americas. We found that compared to Europe, the Americas didn't rate as highly on our video scale. While the video experience in North and South American countries is by no means bad, there is definitely room for improvement.

Strong US TV and video market leads to controversial mobile network prioritization solutions

Posted: Sep 24, 2018

One of the most controversial practices that mobile operators can be accused of is prioritizing certain types of network traffic over others, or limiting the quality of video which consumers can stream. Operators in the U.S. are often criticized for being heavy-handed in such network management practices compared with other countries, and these attacks often paint the operators as backward compared with the best mobile networks in other parts of the world such as Europe and Asia.

Opensignal pioneers the measurement of mobile video experience

Posted: Sep 18, 2018

Today Opensignal is taking a huge step forward in the way mobile services are measured and quantified. We've introduced a new analysis of mobile video experience that rates the quality of video streamed from the internet to the mobile device.

In the words of our CEO, Brendan Gill, “Taking another leap forward in our real-world measurement philosophy and approach, we are now analyzing how consumers experience the specific services they use on their mobile phones. Video experience analysis represents a major step forward towards our vision.”

Becoming an industry standard: Lessons learned from JD Power

Posted: Sep 06, 2018

Today it seems second nature to consult an independent standard before making an important choice. We regularly appeal to consumer ratings before choosing a hotel, movie critics before a trip to the cinema or an independent surveyor before purchasing a house. But it wasn’t always so. In fact, just a couple of decades ago independent reviews of quality were hard to come by. In many cases, the only source of information would be the suppliers you were trying to choose between, who conducted their own studies and tests that were subject, of course, to a glaring conflict of interest.