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Fiber Is Not Enough: Wi-Fi CPE, Interconnection, and Satellite in the Broadband Quality Equation

From legacy routers to peering and low-earth orbit, an Ookla data briefing on the hidden forces defining broadband quality.

May 28, 2026 | 45 Min | 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT

The global broadband debate is fixated on the access line. Governments set fiber coverage targets, operators race to deploy FTTH, and regulators measure progress in homes passed. But Ookla data drawn from millions of consumer-initiated Speedtest results reveals an uncomfortable truth: fiber availability does not guarantee fiber experience.

Increasingly, broadband quality is shaped by factors outside the access network itself. Legacy in-home Wi-Fi equipment can bottleneck gigabit connections before they ever reach the user. Internet exchange points, peering arrangements, CDN nodes, and backbone routing materially affect latency and consistency across regions. At the same time, low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite providers are rapidly improving performance and reshaping the competitive landscape in difficult-to-serve markets.

Join Ookla’s expert panel as we examine:

  • How legacy Wi-Fi CPE is suppressing broadband performance in fiber-rich markets, and what real-world data reveals about the transition from Wi-Fi 6 to Wi-Fi 7
  • The role of IXPs, peering quality, CDN placement, cloud proximity, and submarine cable routing in shaping broadband quality and latency
  • How LEO satellite broadband is changing the competitive landscape, and where adoption is accelerating globally
  • The implications for regulators, operators, and investors as broadband quality measurement evolves beyond fiber coverage alone

Whether you are shaping broadband policy, planning infrastructure investment, or evaluating network strategy, this session delivers data-driven insights into the hidden forces increasingly defining broadband performance.

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About the presenters

Benoit Felten

Managing Director of Fiberevolution

Luke Kehoe

Lead Industry Analyst at Ookla

Mark Giles

Director, Industry Research & Analysis at Ookla

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When AI Goes Dark: What Downdetector Data Reveals About Your Newest Single Point of Failure

Evaluating AI platform reliability and the operational consequences of sudden downtime

In the space of 18 months, AI has moved from a productivity experiment to a pillar of enterprise operations with applications like Claude Code and Copilot embedded in code pipelines, customer support, financial analysis, and strategic decision-making.

But unlike the cloud platforms enterprises spent years hardening, AI infrastructure is being adopted at speed with almost no resilience planning. The result: a new generation of single points of failure that most organizations aren’t monitoring, can’t quantify, and have no fallback for.

And it is about to get worse. As enterprises shift from simple AI chatbots to agentic systems running multi-hour autonomous workflows, every step in the chain introduces a new dependency, and a single failure can corrupt hours of unsupervised work.

In this 30-minute webinar, experts from Ookla will explore the resilience of the AI ecosystem, where we will discuss:

  • From Experiment to Infrastructure: How fast enterprises became dependent—we’ll quantify the speed of enterprise AI adoption using proprietary Downdetector data, showing how the dependency curve is steeper than anything we’ve seen since cloud migration.
  • Platform Reliability Trends: A data-driven comparison of outage frequencies and trends across leading platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. We will reveal which ones are getting worse over time, and show the correlation between usage growth and outage frequency.
  • The Dependency Stack Is Deeper Than You Think: Your AI tool depends on a model provider, which depends on a cloud platform (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), which depends on network infrastructure. We’ll map these dependency chains using real outage data and show how a single failure at any layer cascades upward.
  • Consumer vs. Enterprise Impact: As AI task horizons extend from minutes to hours with agents, the compound failure surface grows exponentially, and most Business Continuity Plan (BCP) frameworks have not caught up.
  • How Downdetector Is Using AI to Fight AI Outages: We’ll preview new data sources and show how Downdetector’s own AI-powered Root Cause Analysis is cutting diagnosis time, turning the same technology that creates fragility into the tool that detects it.

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About the presenters

Daniel Ramirez

Director of Product at Downdetector

Luke Kehoe

Lead Industry Analyst at Ookla

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World Cup 2026: Is Your Roaming Strategy Ready for High-Density Traffic?

An analysis of roaming performance in the tournament host countries

Recordings available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Mega-sporting events like the FIFA World Cup create extreme, short-lived spikes in mobile demand. With 104 matches across 16 cities in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, the 2026 tournament presents a massive challenge for operators: ensuring that high-value subscribers maintain seamless connectivity while roaming across three different nations.

In this webinar, we’ll explore lessons learned from roaming performance during Qatar 2022 and analyze the current state of mobile networks in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada ahead of the 2026 tournament. Join us for a data-driven deep dive into:

  • Major operator performance and roaming data for the Qatar 2022 World Cup 
  • A comparative analysis of performance for the top operators in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada
  • Expected mobile network performance in high-density areas, including stadiums, “fan fest” zones, and host cities 
  • Inbound and outbound roaming analysis, including insights into which networks global roamers are connecting to
  • Predicted mobile network Quality of Experience (QoE) within tournament venues

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About the presenters

Jonathan Siqueira

Senior Customer Solutions Manager, Ookla

Presenting in Portuguese 

Cristhian Castro

Principal Network Intelligence Analyst, Ookla

Presenting in Spanish

Jae Jang

Customer Solutions Manager, Ookla

Presenting in English

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5G Standalone in 2026: Global Performance, Monetization Momentum, and the New Era of Infrastructure Sovereignty

Benchmarking 5G SA rollout progress worldwide and examining how digital autonomy and sovereignty are reshaping telecoms policy

As operators worldwide transition from Non-Standalone (NSA) to Standalone 5G (SA) architectures and 5G Advanced, the performance gains and monetization opportunities are becoming clearer, but so too are the disparities between regions. This webinar presents exclusive findings from Ookla and Omdia’s latest global analysis of 5G SA deployment, performance and commercialization.

Beyond network metrics, we explore a pivotal moment in telecoms policy. The European Commission’s newly proposed Digital Networks Act (DNA) places infrastructure sovereignty, resilience, and digital autonomy at the center of regulatory reform, a trend with global resonance. From Asia’s data localization movements to the US-China technology rivalry, nations are reassessing control over their digital foundations.

Join our expert panel as we examine:

  • The current state of 5G SA rollout in 2026: who leads, who lags, and why
  • Performance benchmarks across key markets, what drives differentiation, and first-of-its-kind animated global 5G SA coverage mapping
  • Monetization strategies gaining traction, from network slicing to consumer segmentation
  • The policy environment shaping investment: coverage obligations, spectrum strategy, and targeted incentives
  • Infrastructure sovereignty and digital autonomy: what the DNA signals for Europe (and the world)

Whether you’re navigating 5G investment decisions, shaping policy frameworks, or building the technology ecosystem, this session delivers the data-driven insights you need.

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About the presenters

Roberto Kompany

Principal Analyst, Mobile Infrastructure at Omdia

Davide Di Labio

Associate Partner at KPMG Italy

James Robinson

Senior Analyst at Assembly Research

Luke Kehoe

Associate Industry Analyst at Ookla

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From 5G SA to D2D and AI: What Ookla’s Analysts Say About the Year Ahead in Mobile

Exclusive data and predictions for the mobile market in 2026

Join Ookla’s global industry analyst team for a high-velocity, data-driven preview of the year ahead in mobile — from 5G SA core modernization to D2D coverage extension and AI impact on network requirements. We’ll use Ookla data to deliver the essential trends and predictions shaping the global mobile market followed by a live Q&A. 

In this must-attend session, our analysts will explore global trends and deliver data-backed takes on:

  • Network Modernization: State of progress in the shift to 5G SA/Advanced, insights on spectrum strategy and monetization (slicing, FWA), and the status of 2G/3G sunsets and spectrum refarming. 
  • Network/Service Resilience: Critical lessons from major outages across regions, from the Iberian blackout to Red Sea cable disruptions, and industry direction on redundancy policy and investment.
  • Future Frontiers: AI’s potential impact on traffic trends and network requirements (latency, uplink), a reality check on D2D satellite deployments, and 6G standardization progress and geopolitics.

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About the presenters

Mark Giles

Director, Industry Research & Analysis at Ookla

Sue Marek

Editorial Director at Ookla

Karim Yaici

Lead Industry Analyst at Ookla

Mike Dano

Lead Industry Analyst at Ookla

Affandy Johan

Industry Analyst at Ookla

Kerry Baker

Industry Analyst at Ookla

Luke Kehoe

Associate Industry Analyst at Ookla

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A Regulator’s Playbook for Driving Broadband Improvement

How Azerbaijan's ICTA uses Ookla data to monitor, validate, and improve national ISP connectivity

Ensuring reliable and competitive broadband performance is critical to a country’s digital transformation. While regulators commonly require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to submit official declarations—such as subscriber counts and reported coverage areas—this often fails to provide the full picture of real-world connectivity being delivered to their constituents.

Azerbaijan’s telecommunications regulatory authority, Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), understood that relying solely on operator-reported figures carries the risk of overstated or understated service availability, especially in remote or underserved regions.

Register for this webinar to find out how ICTA uses independent, real-world testing data from Ookla to objectively track performance, validate compliance, and drive meaningful improvements across the sector.

In this live webinar, ICTA will share how they use crowdsourced data to:

  • Monitor KPIs such as monthly average download speeds, trends in provider performance, national averages, and sector-wide development
  • Verify the accuracy of reported coverage and detect mismatches between reported and observed service presence
  • Simulate targeted improvement scenarios for specific ISPs 
  • Implement road-level monitoring along critical transport corridors

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About the presenters

Javid Ismayil

Head of Analytics and Data Processing Division at ICTA

Murad Quliyev

Head of Electronic Communication Division at ICTA

Karim Yaici

Lead Industry Analyst at Ookla

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Lessons Learned from the Biggest Service Outages of 2025

Get key insights and future mitigation strategies from the top disruptions of the year with Downdetector

In a year defined by widespread digital service disruptions, the ability to rapidly attribute and resolve outages has never been more critical. From major cloud provider failures to platform-specific downtime, 2025 showed that no service is immune to the ripple effects of modern network fragility.

Join us for a definitive year-end review where we walk through the world’s most significant outages, demonstrating how Downdetector Explorer provided immediate, unique insights that were unavailable elsewhere. We will use real-world examples including the recent Cloudflare, AWS, and Google Cloud incidents to show you how new Downdetector Explorer features were put to the test, allowing our clients to cut through the chaos, understand the source, and accelerate their response.

In this webinar we will go over: 

  • Real-Time Outage Attribution: See how Downdetector Explorer provided early alerting on the largest incidents of 2025
  • New Feature Deep Dive: Learn more about Downdetector Explorer’s new capabilities, such as the revamped Alerts Manager and Multi-Service Alerts, and see how they streamline your incident response workflow
  • Staying Ahead of the Curve: Get a sneak peek at the exciting new product enhancements planned for Downdetector Explorer in 2026, and learn how we’re evolving to keep you ahead of the next major disruption

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About the presenters

Daniel Ramirez

Director of Product, Downdetector

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Loaded Latency and L4S: Measuring and Improving Network Responsiveness

A live panel discussion with Comcast, T-Mobile, Ericsson, Nokia Bell Labs, and CableLabs

Why Loaded Latency Matters

The next wave of connectivity including AI, VR, AR, and edge computing requires a breakthrough in network quality. To successfully deliver these real-time, immersive experiences of tomorrow, we need better measurement today. 

Latency is one of the most critical factors in delivering a smooth, responsive internet. This is why Loaded Latency—which shows how network load impacts responsiveness —is an essential metric for all providers of connected experiences to track.

Decoding Low Latency with L4S

L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput) is an internet protocol designed to significantly reduce the delay and variability users experience during congestion. Providers like Comcast and T-Mobile are actively implementing L4S to push performance boundaries. This technology is vital for demanding real-time applications like online gaming, video conferencing, VR, and remote control of machinery.

Join the Experts

Join Ookla and industry experts from Comcast, T-Mobile, Ericsson, Nokia Bell Labs, and CableLabs for an insightful conversation on Loaded Latency and L4S: 

  • Loaded Latency’s Role: Why this metric defines the quality of experience for real-time applications
  • Operator Insights: Practical deployment challenges and success stories from carriers implementing L4S technology
  • Technical Core: How the L4S approach mitigates Bufferbloat
  • Interoperability: Ensuring L4S works seamlessly from device to server
  • The L4S Future: The required evolution of devices and applications to fully realize L4S potential

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About the presenters

Jason Livingood

Vice President of Technology Policy, Product & Standards at Comcast

Dinesh Kumar

Sr MTS, Director Technology Development and Strategy at T-Mobile

Hisham Ali

Director of Technology for Ericsson Americas

Werner Coomans

Senior Technology Advisor, Nokia Bell Labs DMTS

Greg White

Distinguished Technologist at CableLabs

Kerry Baker

Industry Analyst at Ookla

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Satellite Internet Uncovered: Performance Trends and Policy Implications

A panel discussion on the role satellite will play in BEAD and beyond

In the mission to connect every American to high-speed internet, Satellite broadband is emerging as a critical piece of the puzzle, offering a scalable and efficient solution to bring connectivity to the most hard-to-reach locations. With the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program focused on ensuring universal access, satellite technology is a key component of a comprehensive strategy.

In this upcoming webinar, join Ookla for a data-driven discussion on performance trends, adoption challenges, and the role satellite will play in BEAD and beyond. 

Join us for an exclusive panel discussion focused on: 

  • Performance & Potential: What are the real-world capabilities of modern satellite networks, and how are they changing the conversation about rural internet access?
  • The Digital Divide: How is this technology uniquely positioned to bring high-speed internet to the most difficult-to-reach locations?
  • Meeting BEAD Requirements: What are the major challenges and opportunities in using satellite to meet the federal funding goals, including latency and coverage targets?
  • Scaling Up: What does it take to deploy service to thousands of new locations, and what are the hurdles?
  • The Road Ahead: When will commercial service be widely available, and what is the long-term vision for satellite in the broadband ecosystem?

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About the presenters

David Bresnahan

Senior Manager, Grants and Programs at the Maine Connectivity Authority

Jaren Tengan

Broadband Coordinator at Department of Hawaiian Home Lands

Armand Musey

President and Founder, Summit Ridge Group

Mike Dano

Industry Analyst at Ookla

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How to Optimize Mobile Networks for Today’s QoE Requirements

Investigating Real-World User Experience Use Cases with Speedtest Insights

Quality of Service (QoS) metrics like speed and latency provide insight into the baseline performance of connected experiences, but they can’t tell you everything about the ways people are experiencing a network while doing the things that matter most to them. Quality of Experience (QoE) data helps you understand real-world consumer network experience during popular use cases like web browsing, streaming video, gaming, and video conferencing. 

In this webinar, we’ll use insights from Speedtest Insights™ to dive into real-world user experience use cases. We’ll share practical, actionable strategies and examples to help you measure and improve the QoE on your mobile network.

We’ll walk through real-world use cases to improve QoE enabled by Speedtest Insights, including: 

  • Proactively monitoring QoE metrics across a wide range of end-user activities
  • Strategically benchmarking your network’s QoE against key competitors
  • Evaluating QoE during roaming for subscribers traveling abroad
  • Accurately identifying and resolving indoor locations with poor QoE

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About the presenter

Pooja Rane

Technical Account Manager at Ookla