Quantifying The Mobile Experience of Group Video Calls
Opensignal has used an innovative approach to analyze group video calling across 75 countries starting from real-world measures of our users' voice and video experience. 5G made a significant difference to this measure and we have also assessed how it varies across the hours of the day.
The Mobile Future: Predictions for 2021 and Beyond
As the year in which everything changed has ended, Opensignal predicts the ongoing impact on the mobile world in 2021 and beyond.
Why Rakuten’s mobile experience is set to challenge Japan and the world
Rakuten is a new challenger operator in Japan that launched on April 8, competing with NTT DoCoMo, KDDI’s au and SoftBank.
The State of Mobile Games Experience in the 5G era
With video games now the biggest form of entertainment (thanks in part to breakout games like Fortnite) and the smartphone becoming increasing the device of choice, gamers’ mobile connections have a great deal of impact on their playing experience. To quantify this, Opensignal has developed a first of a kind metric and used it to rank the world’s top 100 countries for mobile Games Experience.
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The Mobile Future: Predictions for 2021 and Beyond
As the year in which everything changed has ended, Opensignal predicts the ongoing impact on the mobile world in 2021 and beyond.
Quantifying The Mobile Experience of Group Video Calls
Opensignal has used an innovative approach to analyze group video calling across 75 countries starting from real-world measures of our users' voice and video experience. 5G made a significant difference to this measure and we have also assessed how it varies across the hours of the day.
Quantifying the real ‘on-net’ Rakuten network experience
We see a much better mobile experience when Rakuten users are connected to its own radio network. The average Upload Speed Experience is two and a half times faster on-net than when roaming. We analyze how Rakuten's 'on-net' mobile network experience varies across cities in Japan and what it means for the future.
5G users on average consume up to 2.7x more mobile data compared to 4G users
Opensignal has analyzed our 5G smartphone users' average mobile data consumption in six leading 5G countries and found that in the month of September 2020, on average, they consumed up to 2.7 times more mobile data compared to 4G users.
Benchmarking the global 5G user experience – October update
Across these 15 countries analyzed, users see 5G download speeds that are 5 to 6 times faster than 4G. In every country 5G is much faster than 4G.
Analyzing mobile data consumption and experience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Opensignal quantified our smartphone users’ average mobile data consumption and compared it against our users’ average Download Speed Experience across a number of countries since the early months of the year. Our 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
