Posted: Aug 30, 2022
Italian operators first deployed their 5G commercial services in June 2019 and December 2020, while focusing their initial roll-outs mainly on densely populated urban areas, to maximize their return on investment. While this is a common global 5G approach, it comes at the potential cost of leaving rural users behind.
Posted: Mar 29, 2022
The 2021/2022 football season is the first full season where there is widely available 5G from all four national mobile operators. In this analysis of Italian sports venues, we have analyzed our users’ 5G mobile experience on the four national operators during the 180 days starting on September 1 2021 and ending on February 27, 2022 at and around the 17 stadiums that host the 20 Italian Serie A football teams.
Posted: Mar 02, 2021
Last year, Opensignal analyzed how short-term variations in average mobile data consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic correlated with variations in our users’ average Download Speed Experience across multiple countries.
Posted: Feb 24, 2021
Opensignal has analyzed the mobile experience of smartphone users who changed mobile network operators in Germany. We found that our users who changed their mobile service provider on average had a worse mobile experience before they switched compared to the typical experience on their original network.
Posted: Nov 11, 2020
Opensignal has analyzed mobile subscriber churn in Italy and found that our users who changed their mobile operator on average had a worse mobile experience before they switched compared to the typical experience on their original network. Also, our data shows that, while the main brands of TIM, Vodafone and WindTre are losing smartphone users, their respective lower-cost brands — Kena Mobile, ho. and Very Mobile — are gaining users.
Posted: Sep 04, 2020
Key points
The real-world broadband experience is highly dependent on the location of users’ homes, and users care about the experience where they live, and not nationally. Users’ speeds are higher on almost every ISP in urban areas, followed by suburban and rural areas.
Posted: Aug 21, 2020
Key points
The real-world broadband experience is highly dependent on the location of users’ homes, and users care about the experience where they live, and not nationally. Users’ speeds are higher on almost every ISP in urban districts.
Posted: Aug 14, 2020
Key points
The real-world broadband experience is highly dependent on the location of users’ homes, and users care about the experience where they live, and not nationally. Users’ speeds are higher on almost every ISP in urban areas.
Posted: May 20, 2020
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. We’ve looked at how the 5G experience compares in four leading countries — Australia, South Korea, the U.S. and the U.K. — across ten 5G operators that all launched 5G well over six months ago.
Posted: Mar 12, 2020
Our latest analysis of Germany’s mobile experience looks at the connectivity divide between urban and rural areas. Opensignal analyzed 4G Availability and Download Speed Experience by German state and operator for both urban and rural areas, over a 90-day period.
Our key findings are:
