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South Korea, December 2022, Mobile Network Experience

By Ian Fogg, December 2022

Expectations remain high in South Korea for the 5G experience. And, despite world-beating 5G scores, there has been disappointment about 5G. This is mainly because of how high the industry set 5G expectations prior to its launch in South Korea, and not the superb quality of 5G experience that operators have enabled.

5G GLOBAL MOBILE NETWORK EXPERIENCE AWARDS 2022

By Sam Fenwick, September 2022

In the second 5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards report, Opensignal once again directly compares operators from around the world to recognize those on which our users had the best 5G experience.

Sizing the satellite connectivity opportunity for smartphones

By Ian Fogg, September 2022

Satellite connectivity is coming to smartphones, Apple is adding Emergency SoS using satellites to the iPhone 14 range. Now, Opensignal has analyzed over 100 global markets to understand the extent of the cellular “no signal” problem that mobile users face.

The 5G Experience in APAC’s biggest cities

By Sam Fenwick, August 2022

Opensignal has analyzed the 5G Experience in 11 of the largest cities in the Asia Pacific region. Seoul users see the fastest 5G Download Speeds and spent the most time connected to 5G.

South Korea, June 2022, Mobile Network Experience

By Ian Fogg, June 2022

South Korea is one of the most advanced 5G markets in the world, and the scores of South Korea's operators in this report highlight the extent of 5G success.

Benchmarking the Global 5G Experience — June 2022

By Ian Fogg, June 2022

In this latest definitive analysis of 5G worldwide leaders, there are many new entrants in the top 15 markets across different measures of 5G mobile network experience compared with the last 5G benchmark.

Struggles with 5G power levels risk damaging Japan’s 5G experience

By Robert Wyrzykowski, June 2022

In this new analysis, Opensignal has observed substantially lower signal strength experienced by our users in Japan when connected to 5G, compared with other East Asian markets — Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan.