5G SA is great, but its progress in Europe? Not so great — says Ookla
Ookla this week released a report examining Europe’s 5G Standalone (SA) competitiveness as it compares to other major global regions. The results show that, despite Europe's ambitious 5G infrastructure targets...
AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon have taken 'very different approaches' on rural 5G expansion, Ookla finds
Over the past five years since launching 5G, the three national carriers have all expanded their rural 5G footprints. Each has taken a different strategy, however, driven primarily by...
RootMetrics network testing looked at metro, state and national performance of the three major carriers
RootMetrics' data put AT&T's network on top in at the national and state-level in its network testing for the second half of 2024 in overall network performance. But Verizon and...
Ookla's assessment of cable MVNOs concludes that Xfinity and Spectrum customers have seen a 100-Mbps speed boost over the past two years
Cellular customers of cable MVNOs Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum Mobile have seen a 100 Mbps boost in their experienced download speeds over the...
Ookla looked at data from past New Year's Eve celebrations to draw some conclusions about network impacts
As we settle into the start of 2025, Ookla has provided some analysis about the impact that major New Year's Eve celebrations have on cellular networks around the...
Opensignal's assessment of Canadian 5G service reflects slightly more use of midband spectrum
Canada's 5G user experience is slowly improving, and its use of midband spectrum for Canadian 5G is expanding after a spectrum auction last year, according to new analysis from Opensignal.
The crowd-sourced...
Keysight reported a net loss for the quarter due to a $315 million tax-related expense in Singapore
Keysight Technologies beat the high end of its guidance for the most recent quarter, but still saw lower revenues than the year-ago period and recorded a loss due...
The iPhone 16 is fastest 5G iPhone yet in five out of 11 countries, Ookla says
Ookla wasted no time in diving into data around the performance of the newly released iPhone 16 from Apple. The company collected speed and latency data from the first...
Should you choose mobile or Wi-Fi to get the fastest airport connectivity? Ookla gives a breakdown on speeds.
If you're traveling via San Jose's Norman Mineta International Airport this holiday season, you're passing through the airport with the fastest free Wi-Fi speeds in the country,...
As $42.5 billion in federal funding makes it way to the states to be translated into infrastructure deployment projects, Ookla recently assessed how the 50 U.S. states stand in terms of delivery of broadband speeds.
Ookla examined its Speedtest data for broadband services in terms...
A Verizon network outage impacted customers across the United States on Monday, and the carrier has not yet publicly identified a cause.
The outage reports extended beyond the known outages caused by Hurricane Helene in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. According to customer-reported issues...
Vecta Labs said this week that it recently finished a successful trial of AI-driven RF interference hunting in Miami, FL with a Tier 1 operator.
The company, founded in 2014, specializes in manufacturing and testing mobile radio frequency devices including antennas, as well as in...
Paris 5G coverage is extensive—but Ookla found a few holes
With the start of the Paris Olympics just days away and more than 15 million people expected to visit the city during the course of the Olympic and Paralympic games, Ookla assessed the mobile network...
JD Power's findings on customer perception of network reliability are in line with recent findings from Ookla
Wireless customers in the U.S. are seeing improved customer experience due to 5G midband deployments, and thus are reporting that they are more satisfied overall and perceive mobile...
Ookla found that T-Mobile US has the fastest 5G median download speed at 265.80 Mbps
According to Ookla data from January through June 2024, T-Mobile US emerged as the leader when it comes to key mobile KPIs in the U.S, while AT&T achieved top marks...
Continued midband spectrum deployments by U.S. national carriers are further improving 5G performance, according to new analysis by Ookla of the 5G experience in the U.S. as of the first quarter of 2024.
"Speedtest Intelligence data shows a clear correlation between the release of...
Wi-Fi is fast, but mobile networks are even faster: Ookla
Airports are notorious for the intensity and density of data usage. Just as summer travel is ramping up, Ookla has reassessed both Wi-Fi and mobile network airport connectivity at more than 50 airports around the...
Samsung's Galaxy S24 provided 'statistically significant' improvement in 5G download speeds across seven out of 15 countries, according to Ookla testing
Samsung's newest Galaxy models provide faster median 5G download speeds in about half of the global markets in recent testing by Ookla, and also...
Jio and rival telco Bharti Airtel initially launched 5G services in October 2022
Indian telco Reliance Jio Infocomm has exceeded the 100 million subscribers in the 5G segment, local newspaper The Economic Times reported.
The report also stated that rival operator Bharti Airtel currently has nearly...
T-Mobile US continues to ratchet up its network speeds, with modern chipsets able to achieve a median download speed of 188.96 Mbps during the fourth quarter of 2023, up from 163.59 Mbps during the third quarter and a "strong increase", according to new analysis...
T-Mo, Verizon are gaining cable, DSL customers
Fixed Wireless Access services offered by telecom carriers are succeeding in winning customers away from cable and DSL service providers, according to new analysis from Ookla, but competition in the space is expected to ramp up in the...
Satellite broadband provider Hughes Network Systems, aka Hughesnet, which is part of Echostar, has begun offering service plans with speeds up to 100 Mbps using capacity from its new Jupiter 3 satellite.
That's a big bump in speeds for Hughesnet service. Depending on how...
Apple's iPhone 15 leads the pack in speed improvements in most global 5G markets tested
Do the latest iPhone and Samsung Galaxy ZFlip and ZFold models offer enough of a performance boost to be worth an upgrade?
It depends on your geographic market and its...
Reliance Jio Infocomm has been rapidly expanding its 5G network using Standalone (SA) architecture since October 2022
Indian carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm has covered the entire country with its 5G network ahead of the promised time frame of December 2023.
According to a statement released by...
