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Opensignal released a report analyzing 5G mobile experiences at NHL arenas in Canada and the USA, revealing where the fastest download speeds are and other factors such as “mobile experience”. Despite 5G marketing touted by Canadian telcos, the fastest 5G download speeds at NHL arenas are found in the USA. Opensignal says it measured the...

Opensignal released two reports on Wednesday, its Mobile Network Experience and 5G Experience report, detailing ‘winners’ when it came to 4G and 5G experiences in Canada, and again Rogers, Telus and Bell took home the major awards in each category. For the Mobile Network Experience report for August 2021, Telus won four categories outright, while...

According to mobile analytics firm Opensignal's latest analysis, users' mobile experience in Canada varies greatly depending on proximity to urban areas demonstrating that a clear divide continues to exist between the urban and rural mobile network experience. While Canada's national mobile operators have launched 5G in multiple cities, many rural users will likely wait a...

Telus has claimed top spots again in two separate wireless tests from OpenSignal and Ookla. According to UK-based OpenSignal’s Mobile Network Experience Report for February 2021, Telus took the sole first place price in four of six tests, while tied for three with rivals Rogers and Bell. According to OpenSignal, it says Telus "remains the operator...

OpenSignal released their Mobile Network Experience Report for August 2019, detailing Telus, Rogers and Bell, along with regional players Videotron and Freedom Mobile. The report, which collected data from nearly 174,000 devices between the period of April 1 to June 29, 2019, resulted in over 438 million total measurements. According to OpenSignal, some significant milestones...

OpenSignal has released their latest speed report for mobile networks in Canada, and their latest findings have concluded Telus has retained its position as having the fastest download speeds in the country: In our most recent test period, Telus maintained its commanding position, but we saw big improvements from all three nationwide operators in our...

UK-based OpenSignal has released their State of LTE report (June 2017), which ranks global LTE performance. The report also included data for Canada, which saw us ranked 17th worldwide when it comes to 4G/LTE availability, and 13th worldwide for LTE speeds, averaging 30.58 Mbps. The top three are Singapore, South Korea and Hungary, with average...

Canadians may be paying more than they would like for wireless services, but they get access to some of the fastest speeds in the world, according to the latest report from wireless-mapping firm OpenSignal. Of the 87 countries OpenSignal ranked, Canada took 12th place in terms of overall speeds users see over the carrier's data...

If network speed is a factor you consider when choosing your carrier from the Big 3, well, that's a hard one to decide, as their efforts to match each other's speeds have brought results, and the latest OpenSignal report supports this with hard data. After collecting more than 289 million data points from 15,272 Canadian...

I think you've heard plenty of times from carriers that Canadian wireless subscribers enjoy (for example) the second-fastest average 4G speeds in the world. Well, they might be fast, but when compared to other wireless networks in the world, well, the reality shows a completely different picture. To compile its sixth Global LTE report, OpenSignal...

In the six years since the first LTE network was deployed, OpenSignal has been closely following its progress. Now that 148 countries have LTE deployed and another 10 are already scheduled, let's have a look how Canada's carriers performed during the fourth quarter of 2015 in terms of network speed. If you are expecting to...

If you want the highest data speeds on your smartphone or tablet, you should contact Bell, according to the latest report from OpenSignal. After collecting more than 27 million data points from 15,639 users between September 1 and November 30, 2015, OpenSignal has concluded that the Big Three are surprisingly close when it comes to matching...