Posted: Sep 22, 2021
In our previous insight, we observed that our users in Germany, Italy and the UK experienced significantly faster 5G average download speeds when they were also connected to additional amounts of 4G spectrum, through older 4G technology. To explore this topic further, Opensignal looked at South Korea’s mobile market, known for its advanced 5G deployments.
Posted: Sep 01, 2021
Opensignal analyzed the impact of different amounts of 5G and 4G spectrum on the overall 5G mobile experience of our users. Perhaps surprisingly, our research shows that users in Germany, Italy and the UK saw significantly faster 5G average download speeds when they were also connected to additional amounts of 4G spectrum, through older 4G technology.
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: Apr 08, 2020
On Friday, March 13, the FCC’s chairman Pai launched the Keep Americans Connected Pledge calling for U.S. telecom companies to adopt additional measures and ensure Americans remain connected during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Posted: Mar 09, 2020
Opensignal is investigating how different U.S. carriers have been using their spectrum holdings to launch 5G services. In this first analysis, we have looked into AT&T’s spectrum use of its 850MHz band, which the operator used to launch its low-band 5G service in December 2019, in order to shed light on AT&T’s 5G approach.
Posted: Dec 06, 2019
Spectrum is the oil of the wireless industry. Carriers need large quantities of spectrum to fuel the networks that support hundreds of millions of Americans using their smartphones many times every day to listen to music, stream video, or to communicate.
Posted: Oct 28, 2019
Over the past year, Brazil's operators have begun rolling out 4G networks in the 700 MHz band in earnest. But what's been the impact of this bandwidth bonanza on the mobile network experience in Brazil?
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.
Posted: May 14, 2019
In Opensignal’s latest U.K. national report we observed that users experienced widely different 4G Download Speeds on the four major mobile networks. EE led the group with a 4G Download Speed of 32.5 Mbps, more than 8 Mbps ahead of Vodafone (24.3 Mbps), 11 Mbps ahead of 3 (21.6 Mbps) and double the speed of O2 (15.8 Mbps). But why does users’ experience vary so much across the U.K.'s operators?
Posted: Apr 16, 2019
The infusion of the 700 MHz airwaves into operators’ 4G networks produced visible improvements in the national scores of our latest Brazil report as operators activated the new frequency band across Brazilian cities. However, we observed a trade-off between increased 4G networks’ reach and 4G Download Speeds.
