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: Dec 03, 2020
More than 18 months have passed since the U.S. and South Korea saw the first mobile 5G commercial launches in April 2019. However, 5G spectrum is still a scarce resource for many operators, who are looking to acquire more spectrum in upcoming auctions and repurpose some or all of the spectrum that they are currently using for 3G and/or 4G networks.
Posted: Oct 21, 2020
The latest generation of mobile technology, 5G, doesn’t just enable much faster average speeds than 4G, it also adds a tremendous amount of new capacity. 5G allows operators to tap into new higher frequency bands above 3GHz that have never been previously used for mobile services.
Posted: Aug 24, 2020
Opensignal has analyzed how much time our German smartphone users spent connected to 4G networks — 4G Availability — during the 90 days period starting on April 1, 2020. Our 4G users on average experienced 4G Availability of 90.9% and 84.2%, respectively, across urban and rural districts.
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: 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:
Posted: Dec 03, 2019
In our recent analyses of global mobile networks, we've seen a pretty wide range of user experiences across Europe. This is to be expected, since the continent is home to some of the most advanced mobile markets in the world, as well as some nations that are still moving towards mobile maturity.
Posted: Nov 07, 2019
Opensignal analyzed the mobile experience of our German smartphone users who have never accessed mobile data on a 4G network (we are calling this group of users “3G-only” users in the rest of our analysis). We found that 81.4% of our 3G-only users had a 4G-capable smartphone and visited areas where 4G exists — indicating that the most likely reason they have not used 4G is because they did not have a 4G subscription.
Posted: Oct 25, 2019
Posted: Oct 22, 2019
While operators have launched commercial 5G services in a number of countries in 2019, the experience of 5G users is still extremely uneven.
