The 5G speed battle is getting (a little) closer
Of course, Magenta can only be delighted by the massive 5G speed advantage it continues to hold over its arch-rivals, with realistic hopes of seeing that 200+ Mbps test result further improved in the next couple of years with the help of various technological breakthroughs, world firsts, and good old expansions of existing mid-band spectrum to even more territories across the nation.
T-Mobile 9 – Verizon 5 – AT&T 1
That’s the overall tally of the three big carriers’ titles and trophies in this incredibly sweeping year-opening study, which highlights how far behind its competition remains AT&T and how close Verizon is getting to truly threatening T-Mobile‘s network experience supremacy.
While one could definitely argue that T-Mo’s gold medals and crowns are shinier, flashier, and ultimately more important than those of its number one rival, you all should know better than to focus exclusively on download speeds. It’s clearly hard to name T-Mobile as the 5G experience champion based on this particular set of data, which puts Verizon in first place for 5G video, 5G live video, and 5G gaming in addition to 5G upload speed.
That doesn’t even really qualify as a consolation win when you consider how ubiquitous 4G LTE connectivity has become over the last decade or so, which is clearly not what we can say about T-Mobile‘s thumping 5G availability victory. That’s almost more impressive than the aforementioned 5G download speed triumph, especially when it’s backed by a less comfortable but still clear-cut win in the 5G coverage experience field.
Finally, Verizon‘s overall coverage experience victory is largely offset by a network consistency loss to T-Mobile that seals the fate of the wireless championship for January 2024 once and for all. If you’re not entirely sure what each of these performance indicators actually… means and is supposed to indicate, you’ll obviously find all the details and explanations you need on Opensignal’s website.
