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European markets show significant disparity in broadband user experience

By Andrey Popov, October 2023

In this analysis, Opensignal looks at user experience on broadband networks across 28 European markets. We have focused on three user experience measures — Broadband Download Speed, Broadband Upload Speed and Broadband Consistent Quality, the latter being a measure of how often users’ experience on a network is sufficient to support common applications’ requirements.

Global 5G benchmark: South Korea’s retreat on mmWave threatens its 5G leadership

By Ian Fogg, September 2023

South Korea’s leadership position in 5G experience is at risk as other markets deploy mmWave 5G ahead of South Korea. While South Koreans enjoy the fastest overall 5G download and upload speeds in the world, and spend the second highest time with a 5G connection — called 5G Availability — other markets are enjoying a further greater experience boost from mmWave 5G.

Users should upgrade their iPhone to have the best mobile network experience

By Ian Fogg, September 2023

Even current 5G iPhone users will see an experience boost from switching to a new 5G iPhone — up to 48% faster 5G speeds. iPhone 14 Plus has been more popular than the iPhone Mini in 80% of global markets analyzed. Markets vary in their preference for Pro and large screen iPhones.

How Italian operators can leverage their local mobile experience to improve their user shares - September 2023

By Andrey Popov, September 2023

In this new analysis, Opensignal measures the differences between Italian operators’ national market shares and those in cities. We also compare these local shares against the competitiveness of operators’ user experience to establish where the national operators might be under/over performing.

Mapping Italy's network congestion - Naples and Palermo lead in speed declines

By Andrey Popov, July 2023

In this analysis we have measured the degree of congestion in 21 cities by comparing the network experience during the busiest hours of the day (18:00 - 23:59), compared to that during the morning (06:00 - 11:59) when networks are relatively uncongested and not affected by power-saving measures employed by Italian network operators at night.

Benchmarking the Global 5G Experience — June 2023

By Ian Fogg, June 2023

The 5G experience continues to evolve. More markets are launching 5G. More spectrum is becoming available and that additional spectrum is boosting capacity and improving users’ experience with faster speeds, and a better video and gaming experience. In this latest global 5G benchmark, Opensignal quantifies how the real-world 5G experience compares.

Italian operators maintain consistent quality while implementing energy-saving practices

By Andrey Popov, June 2023

In this analysis, Opensignal examines some of the energy saving practices implemented by national mobile operators in Italy. On all five national operators — Fastweb, Iliad, TIM, Vodafone and WindTre our users see fewer 4G spectrum bands available at night. On 5G networks this practice is predominantly adopted by Iliad. Despite these changes to spectrum bands our users enjoy consistent connection quality during the time these practices are in effect.