The State of Mobile Network Experience

This Opensignal looks at data from Jan-March 2019, the timeframe just prior to the first 5G services launching in South Korea and the US. We examined 87 countries and compared their performance across all five of our key award metrics: 4G Availability, Video Experience, Download and Upload Speed Experience, and Latency Experience. Key Findings:

• Download Speed Experience scores range from over 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) to under 2 Mbps: South Korea was the only country to score over 50 Mbps in Download Speed Experience, with the majority of countries scoring in the 10-20 Mbps range across our users. Norway was second at 48.2 Mbps.  The US clocked in at 21.3 Mbps.
• Europe best for Video Experience — but no market has an Excellent rating.
• Strong showings for the US and India in 4G Availability: Only four European countries made our 4G Availability top 10 — the fewest of any of our award metrics. And both the US and India made the top 10, despite being distinctly mid-table in all our other key metrics.
• Europe dominates Opensignal's key metrics: A look at the leading countries across Opensignal's metrics shows the preeminence of Europe. In a ranking of the 10 countries who scored highly across all five of our key metrics, only two were from outside Europe.