South Korea, December 2023, Mobile Network Experience
The fastest overall experience in South Korea is with SK telecom, while KT continues to reign supreme for 5G Availability.
Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2024
In this Opensignal’s fifth Global Awards report, we analyse the difference in the overall experience seen by our users on different operators across the globe.
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South Korea, June 2020, 5G User Experience
LG U+ wins Opensignal's first award for 5G Download Speed, with our users seeing average speeds of 237.2 Mbps, which is 16.8 Mbps faster than users on second-placed SK Telecom (220.4 Mbps), and an impressive 22.4 Mbps faster than the 214.8 Mbps seen by KT's users..
South Korea, June 2020, Mobile Network 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.
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.
Mobile Experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: 4G Download Speed
Globally, operators report mobile data use is increasing dramatically but Opensignal’s analytics demonstrate that despite these challenges the mobile experience is holding up well. Opensignal has seen only relatively small changes in users’ 4G Download Speeds in some countries, and none at all in other countries.
South Korea, December 2019, Mobile Network Experience
Speeds in Korea are the world's fastest.
The State of Mobile Video Experience 2019
In one year mobile Video Experience has significantly improved in 59% of 100 countries analyzed. But the U.S. is lagging behind on mobile video as carriers face a spectrum crunch. Uniquely, Opensignal tests mobile video streaming at scale and does not estimate video experience based on speed tests or other indirect measurements.