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Malaysia, April 2021, Mobile Network Experience

By Hardik Khatri, April 2021

We have seen a lot of change since our last report. DiGi swept away our Video Experience and Download Speed awards, which were previously held by Maxis.

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.

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.

Mobile experience helps explain why Malaysian users change mobile operator in 2020

By Hardik Khatri, February 2021

Our data also suggests that with low-cost data offerings being common across the board, the quality of experience is becoming the differentiating factor and is gaining importance as a driver for churn in the Malaysian mobile market.

Benchmarking Malaysia’s 4G mobile network experience before the JENDELA initiative

By Hardik Khatri, December 2020

Recently, the Government of Malaysia announced a multi-billion dollar national digital infrastructure plan, Jalinan Digital Negara (JENDELA), to improve the country’s digital infrastructure and connectivity.

Analyzing Malaysia’s mobile data consumption, and its effects on 4G Download Speed

By Hardik Khatri, October 2020

We observed that our Malaysian smartphone users' average mobile data consumption increased drastically over a few weeks across all networks — concurrently with the MCO's introduction — and this was associated with significant drops in our users' average 4G Download Speed Experience. While our users' data consumption on most networks in the third quarter of 2020 has remained above pre-MCO levels, their average download speeds are slowly returning to normal and even improving beyond those seen before the MCO in some cases.

Malaysia, September 2020, Mobile Network Experience

By Hardik Khatri, September 2020

Our U Mobile users saw the largest improvement in 4G Availability — the average percentage of time that our 4G users spent connected to 4G services — compared to our <a href='https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2020/04/malaysia/mobile-network-experience' target='_blank'>last report</a>.