We report on the experimental results of the MOS field‐effect and Hall mobilities measured on etched surface of GaN grown on silicon substrate. The peak MOS Hall mobility was extracted to be 23 cm2/V‐s, and the Hall mobility was then modelled using physics‐based model. The effects of Columbic scattering, phonon scattering, and surface roughness were evaluated, and the limiting factor of the GaN MOS mobility was identified as Columbic scattering caused by the combination of high interface charges and traps at the GaN MOS interface. The GaN MOS surface roughness extracted from the modelling was comparable to silicon MOS interface. (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)