{"id":44599,"date":"2026-01-29T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=44599"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:31:11","slug":"ee-wins-big-in-opensignal-study-of-best-4g-and-5g-uk-mobile-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/ee-wins-big-in-opensignal-study-of-best-4g-and-5g-uk-mobile-networks.html","title":{"rendered":"EE Wins Big in Opensignal Study of Best 4G and 5G UK Mobile Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network benchmarking firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/opensignal\" target=\"_blank\">Opensignal<\/a> has this morning published their first Mobile Network Experience Report for 2026, which measured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> (mobile broadband) services of all the primary network operators \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> and VodafoneThree (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a>) \u2013 to determine which delivers the best performance. Overall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> won most, but not all, of the categories.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The study is based off crowdsourced data gathered from users on hundreds of thousands of devices (Smartphones etc.) between 1st October and 29th December 2025. The results were then processed to reveal how the primary mobile network operators compared across various categories.<\/p>\n<p>The study continues to be predominantly focused upon the combined performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> networks, but it does also examine the speed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a>-only connections. Overall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) once again secured most of the performance categories in the primary study, with the operator doing particularly well to win both the &#8216;Reliability Experience&#8217; and &#8216;Consistent Quality&#8217; awards outright, scoring 915 points (on a 100-1000 scale) for Reliability and 78.6% for Quality.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> delivered the fasted 5G download and upload speeds, as well as the highest &#8216;time on network&#8217; figure, but otherwise they lagged behind their rivals. Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>) scooped one award for &#8216;Coverage Experience&#8217;, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> failed to win anything.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2026-uk-internet-statistics\/Opensignal-uk-mobile-awards-Jan-2026.webp\" alt=\"Opensignal uk mobile awards Jan 2026\"><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve summarised some of the key results below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Download Speed Experience &#8211; All Mobile Connections<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. EE 53.2Mbps<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> 51Mbps<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> 37.5Mbps<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> 32.8Mbps<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Download Speeds \u2013 5G<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Three UK 187Mbps<br \/>\n2. Vodafone 130.9Mbps<br \/>\n3. EE 92.2Mbps<br \/>\n4. <span class=\"c-ru-graph__confidence\"><span class=\"c-ru-graph__number\">O2 89.9Mbps<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Upload Speed Experience \u2013 All Mobile Connections<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. EE 10.4Mbps<br \/>\n2. Three UK 9.3Mbps<br \/>\n3. Vodafone 7.4Mbps<br \/>\n4. O2 6.4Mbps<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Upload Speeds \u2013 5G<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Three UK 20.2Mbps<br \/>\n2. EE 16Mbps<br \/>\n3. Vodafone 14.1Mbps<br \/>\n4. O2 11Mbps<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Time on Network %<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(what proportion of time people have a network connection)<\/p>\n<p>1. Three UK 99.4%<br \/>\n2. EE 99%<br \/>\n3. O2 98%<br \/>\n4. Vodafone 97%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>UK 5G Availability %<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. EE 77.4%<br \/>\n2. O2 57%<br \/>\n3. Three UK 38.9%<br \/>\n4. Vodafone 29.6%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mobile speeds remain a difficult thing to study because end-users are always moving through different areas (indoor, outdoor and underground), using different devices with different capabilities and the surrounding environment is ever changeable (weather, trees, buildings etc.). All of this can impact signal quality and that\u2019s before we consider any differences in network (backhaul) capacity or spectrum usage between locations.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, performance testing like this may not always tell the whole story, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/opensignal\" target=\"_blank\">Opensignal<\/a> are one of the better organisations at analysing such data. The result also echoes similar studies from other groups, such as Ookla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has this morning published their first Mobile Network Experience Report for 2026, which measured the 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) services of all the primary network operators \u2013 EE, O2 and VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) \u2013 to determine which delivers the best performance. Overall, EE won most, but not all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,406,150,474,405,60,32,34,63,475,96,2721],"class_list":["post-44599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-5g","tag-awards","tag-bt","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-statistics","tag-three-uk","tag-virgin-media","tag-vodafone","tag-vodafonethree"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/115977338659854511","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EE Wins Big in Opensignal Study of Best 4G and 5G UK Mobile Networks - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Network benchmarking firm Opensignal has this morning published their first Mobile Network Experience Report for 2026, which measured the 4G and 5G\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/ee-wins-big-in-opensignal-study-of-best-4g-and-5g-uk-mobile-networks.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EE Wins Big in Opensignal Study of Best 4G and 5G UK Mobile Networks - 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