USA, June 2020, 5G User Experience
The U.S. is one of the leading 5G markets globally with users on different U.S. operators enjoying extremely fast 5G speeds or sizable amounts of time connected to 5G technology.
Quantifying the global 5G experience across ten operators
In Opensignal’s latest 5G analysis we found all ten operators saw much faster speeds for their users on 5G compared with 4G, with speeds between 18.4 times and 1.7 times faster on 5G. Understanding the extent to which 5G improves the mobile experience is critical both for consumers considering upgrading to 5G and also for the mobile industry that’s planning how quickly to invest in 5G.
5G download speed is now faster than Wifi in seven leading 5G countries
Opensignal’s latest analysis demonstrates that 5G greatly improves the real-world speeds that users experience. And, even more significantly, 5G offers faster average download speeds than Wifi in seven out of eight leading 5G countries.
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 company’s CTO, Tareq Amin, has marketed Rakuten’s network technology approach to the mobile industry worldwide. Unlike most existing networks, the company aims to make extensive use of virtualization and containerization throughout its network as well as embrace OpenRAN in its base stations.
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Mobile networks' speeds faster in the Alps than in southern provinces of Italy
Opensignal analysed Italy’s mobile experience using ISTAT’s Ecological Provinces and found that our users in the Alps on average enjoyed faster download and upload speeds compared to our users in the southern ecological provinces.
Colombia, July 2020, Mobile Network Experience
For the first time in Colombia, two operators — Claro and Tigo — surpassed the 80% mark in the 4G Availability metric, meaning our users on both these networks were able to connect to 4G services more than 80% of the time.
USA, June 2020, 5G User Experience
The U.S. is one of the leading 5G markets globally with users on different U.S. operators enjoying extremely fast 5G speeds or sizable amounts of time connected to 5G technology.
South Korea, June 2020, 5G User Experience
Award-winner SK Telecom is the first operator in South Korea to see its users enjoying an Excellent Video Experience with a score of 75.5 on a one hundred point scale.
Israel, June 2020, Mobile Network Experience
In our first operator-level outlook on the Israeli mobile market, Opensignal found no single dominant operator across our mobile network experience metrics, with four out of five national operators appearing in our award table.
Indonesia’s top cities on mobile games experience — Palangka Raya, Pekanbaru and Banda Aceh
Indonesia is the largest mobile games market in Southeast Asia — both by players and by revenue. But how good or bad is the gaming experience on Indonesian mobile networks?
