T-Mobile is still crushing it, but the gap is getting smaller
That’s because both Verizon and AT&T have managed to make small but notable gains in this department while T-Mobile‘s median speed score has dropped slightly from an incredible 164.76 Mbps in Q2.
The industry-leading “Un-carrier” continues to top all the other charts as well, winning every single category from upload speeds to overall network latency, consistency, video, 5G video, 5G latency, and 5G consistency, but its progresses are simply not as impressive as they used to be until recently.
In the all-important 5G performance field, for instance, T-Mo is up from a median download speed of 220 Mbps last quarter to 221.57 Mbps, which represents a much smaller gain than what Verizon and AT&T were capable of. Then again, the wireless industry’s silver and bronze medalists obviously had a lot of room for improvement, jumping from modest scores of 133.50 and 86.01 Mbps respectively to… slightly less modest 153.79 and 101.55 Mbps 5G speed results respectively.
One big win for Apple and one for Samsung
But Samsung still comes out on top as far as smartphone manufacturers go, and the reason is most likely the relatively high number of old and comparatively slow iPhones that American consumers continue to use despite obviously not getting the best mobile network experience (theoretically) available today.
