All hail the global 5G availability king!
You may not know this… if you’ve been living under a remote rock somewhere in the Great Smoky Mountains or you’ve somehow successfully avoided all of T-Mobile‘s ads and promotional campaigns since 2019 or so, but the “Un-carrier” adopted a radically different 5G rollout strategy compared to those of Verizon and AT&T, as well as many other operators in many other countries.
Initially focused on providing low-band 5G coverage to as many people around the nation as possible, T-Mo then proceeded with its mid-band deployments and expansions, rapidly improving speeds in thousands of cities and towns while largely ignoring the much faster mmWave technology favored by the competition.
T-Mo’s 5G availability score of 56.1 percent, in case you’re wondering, represents not the theoretical coverage of its high-speed wireless service, but the proportion of time spent by its actual customers out in the real world on a 5G connection. In other words, said connection is currently available more than half the time for “eligible” users, which is a threshold no one else can exceed… apart from T-Mobile Puerto Rico. That’s the “group II” 5G availability leader, and its supremacy over South Korea or Kuwait’s top wireless dogs is equally overwhelming.
What about the 5G speed battle?
