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Mobile experience explains why urban and rural Canadian users change mobile operators

By Francesco Rizzato, Hardik Khatri, May 2021

Opensignal's analysis shows that both our urban and rural Canadian users who changed their mobile service provider, on average, had a worse mobile experience before they switched than the typical experience observed by all our users on their original network provider.

Analyzing download speeds in business locations

By Francesco Rizzato, May 2021

Opensignal analyzed smartphone users’ average download speed across business locations in Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S.

Canada, April 2021, 5G User Experience

By Hardik Khatri, April 2021

In Opensignal’s first comparison of the 5G experience across carriers in Canada, we found a mobile network experience landscape characterized by extreme competition. Due to challenges with limited 5G spectrum, Canada is now losing ground in 5G compared with other countries.

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.

In the 5G era, Canada is losing global leadership due to spectrum challenges

By Hardik Khatri, March 2021

Canada has some of the fastest 4G networks in the world. But 5G is more challenging because Canada’s operators have had access to less new 5G wireless spectrum than operators in many other countries. So, how does Canada fare when it comes to its 5G network experience?

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.

Canada, February 2021, Mobile Network Experience

By Hardik Khatri, February 2021

In our latest look at Canada's mobile network experience, Telus remains the operator to beat.