Optus wins most awards in Opensignal's November mobile network report
Optus took eight of 14 awards outright and shared a ninth with Vodafone in Opensignal's latest Mobile Network Experience report, while Telstra won coverage and Vodafone won upload speeds.
Optus collected the most awards in Opensignal's latest Mobile Network Experience report, WhistleOut reported, winning eight outright and sharing one with Vodafone. The bi-annual report assesses Telstra, Optus and Vodafone across four categories: 4G Experience, 5G Experience, Coverage and Consistency, with 14 awards available in total.
Optus won the fastest 5G download speed award for the eleventh time in a row, at an average of 207.3Mbps. Telstra followed on 173.7Mbps and Vodafone on 168.2Mbps. On 4G downloads, the figures were 59.9Mbps for Optus, 51.1Mbps for Telstra and 38.9Mbps for Vodafone.
Vodafone won both upload speed awards, for 4G and 5G. Its 5G upload average was 18.1Mbps, against 16.5Mbps for Telstra and 16Mbps for Optus, and its 4G upload average was 9.3Mbps. Optus won all of the awards in the 4G and 5G Video and Games Experience categories, which Opensignal scores out of 100 using measures such as loading times, video quality and latency.
Telstra won the coverage awards, including overall coverage and 5G Coverage Experience, for the seventh time running. It scored 9.6 for overall coverage and 8.2 for 5G Coverage Experience on a scale of zero to 10.
Optus and Vodafone were joint winners of Time on Network, each on 99.3 per cent, while Vodafone won 5G Availability outright with 86.8 per cent. Optus won Consistent Quality with 84.9 per cent and Reliability Experience with 947 out of 1,000.
Opensignal draws its data from on-device tests run by a selection of its app users on each network. The data for this report was collected between 1 July and 28 September.