Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 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. In this report we’ve expanded the scope of our analysis, so for the first time we’re also assessing our users’ multiplayer mobile Games Experience globally on different operators.
In the 5G era, Canada is losing global leadership due to spectrum challenges
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?
Sri Lanka, February 2021, Mobile Network Experience
In our latest look at the mobile network experience in Sri Lanka, Mobitel continues to hold the lion’s share of our awards.
Benchmarking the global 5G experience
5G is still near the beginning of its decade-long era.
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Slovenia, April 2021, Mobile Network Experience
In Opensignal's first mobile network experience report on Slovenia, Telekom Slovenia dominates our awards table with four outright wins and it also jointly won the remaining three awards.
United Kingdom, April 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Vodafone forces a tie with EE on Games Experience. However, EE's lead on Download Speed Experience has increased by 3.4 Mbps.
Libya, April 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Libyana makes incredible progress on 4G Availability to win the award.
United Kingdom, April 2021, 5G User Experience
3 users spend the most time connected to 5G in the UK, but EE wins the 5G Download Speed award by clocking up speeds of 140 Mbps.
mmWave 5G is almost thirty times faster than public Wifi, but with similar reach
Some types of 5G have very similar availability to public Wifi. For example, 5G smartphone users spend approximately 0.5% of time connected to 5G mmWave. Now, with 5G and especially with 5G mmWave, we see speeds on mobile that are much faster than with public Wifi.
Vietnam, March 2021, Mobile Network Experience
Viettel Mobile remains the operator to beat but MobiFone wins the Upload Speed Experience award outright.