Jan 2024
USA, January 2024, Mobile Network Experience
In the latest U.S. Mobile Network Experience report, T-Mobile leads the award count with nine outright wins out of 15 awards available. Verizon ends with five awards claimed outright, while AT&T scores the highest for Availability.
Feb 2024
Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2024
In this Opensignal’s fifth Global Awards report, we analyse the difference in the overall experience seen by our users on different operators across the globe.
Feb 2024
Opensignal data shows the scale and progression of AT&T’s February outage
On Feb 22, 2024, a nationwide, multi-hour outage disrupted mobile services for AT&T network users. Opensignal continuously detected the extent and development of the outage shortly after it began.
Feb 2024
Opensignal illustrates the correlation between outage exposure and subscriber losses
States with greater AT&T outage impact suffered greater AT&T subscriber losses.
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Analyzing the mobile adaptive video experience in the US
Opensignal takes its first look at our U.S. users’ mobile video experience using Adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR). We found that our users’ on Verizon’s network experienced the best 5G Adaptive video experience ahead of T-Mobile and AT&T.
USA, July 2022, 5G Experience
T-Mobile wins the 5G Download Speed award for the sixth time in a row. However, following the launch of C-band in January 2022, T-Mobile is no longer the only carrier showing big jumps in users’ speeds as we have started to see the impact of C-band deployments on Verizon and AT&T’s results.
USA, July 2022, Mobile Network Experience
T-Mobile leads across most mobile experience categories in the U.S. based on Opensignal’s awards table as it wins six awards outright — all four awards in the Overall Experience section, as well as both Consistent Quality awards.
Despite interference concerns, 5G already offers a better user experience at the busiest US airports
Opensignal looked at the mobile network experience of our users at the 25 busiest airports in the U.S. based on FAA reports, and compared that to national results, to see how users’ 5G mobile experience differed. Opensignal users enjoyed faster overall cellular download speeds and an overall better video streaming experience, compared to the national average. However, users also spent more time without a cellular signal at airports.
Benchmarking the Global 5G Experience — June 2022
In this latest definitive analysis of 5G worldwide leaders, there are many new entrants in the top 15 markets across different measures of 5G mobile network experience compared with the last 5G benchmark.
5G beats Public Wifi for gaming as well as speed
For a long time, users have assumed that Wifi always offers a superior experience to cellular connectivity, when using the Internet on mobile devices, either at home or in public places.
Analyzing mobile experience at NHL arenas across Canada and the US
Opensignal data shows that users at NHL arenas in both Canada and the U.S. had a significantly better experience when connected to 5G compared to the overall experience of all users at those venues. But our data also shows that users’ experience varied depending on their choice of carrier.
