Optus' network takes home most awards in new Opensignal report

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Optus has walked away with the most awards in Opensignal's latest Mobile Network Experience report.

The leading insights company's bi-annual report looks at the performance of Australia's mobile network operators Telstra, Optus and Vodafone across four categories: 4G Experience, 5G Experience, Coverage, and Consistency.

Across these categories there are a total of 14 awards to be won. In November's report Optus has taken home 8 awards outright and one which it shares with Vodafone. 

Optus took the crown for fastest 5G download speeds for the eleventh time in a row. Optus' average 5G download speed was reported as 207.3Mbps, followed by Telstra at 173.7Mbps, and Vodafone at 168.2Mbps.

Turning to upload speeds, Vodafone secured both the awards for both fastest 4G and 5G upload speeds.

Here are each network's results for 4G and 5G download and upload speeds:

When it came to the 4G/5G Video and Games Experience categories, Optus cleaned up all the awards. Opensignal scores these categories out of 100 with criteria like having fast loading times, video quality, and latency (the time it takes for data to travel between the server and your device).

Telstra took home awards for its coverage including overall and 5G Coverage Experience. This was the seventh time the telco won these awards back-to-back. These awards are for the largest footprint of geographical coverage within populated areas. Measured on a scale of zero to 10, Telstra scored 9.6 for overall coverage and 8.2 for 5G Coverage Experience.

You can see the full list of wins in this report here:

Optus and Vodafone were joint winners on 99.3% for Time on Network, while Vodafone won outright with a score of 86.8% for 5G Availability.

Optus won the award for Consistent Quality (measured as a percentage of tests), scoring 84.9% and Reliability Experience with scores of 947 out of 1,000.

Opensignal relies on data from its own app users to assess the networks. It runs on-device tests from a selection of its users on each mobile network. The data for this report was collected between July 1 and September 28 this year.

Dylan Crismale

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Dylan Crismale is a Digital Content Editor at WhistleOut, has been writing for almost a decade across a variety of Australian publications. He previously worked as a writer at Finder covering energy, internet and mobile plans. Dylan is passionate about finding the best deals to save people money and educating people about tech. When he's not sat at his desk Dylan loves working out, bingeing TV and hanging out with friends.​

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