Towering speed meets crushing availability meets dominant consistency
We all know there’s no such thing as a flawless wireless network, but T-Mo is sure inching closer and closer to delivering the perfect mobile experience across the nation, at least according to the periodic research conducted by Opensignal analysts.
T-Mobile is the US 5G speed king.
We’re talking about the 5G availability field, where Verizon and AT&T are simply not playing in the same league as T-Mobile. This is a different indicator from 5G coverage, mind you, measuring the proportion of time these operators’ 5G users can actually benefit from the “superior experience that 5G provides” (often, only in theory).
T-Mobile absolutely destroys the competition in the 5G availability contest.
The overall network consistency battle is pretty evenly fought.
The aforementioned 5G coverage battle is unsurprisingly won by Magenta as well, and the same goes for the overall video, live video, games, download speed, and upload speed categories. With so many non-5G-specific victories under its belt, it certainly doesn’t come as a shock that T-Mobile also takes home the top consistency prize, but that’s actually one field where Verizon and AT&T have made excellent progress, with Big Red coming extremely close to an unexpected win.
T-Mobile nine, Verizon five, AT&T one
At the end of the day, T-Mobile obliterates its arch-rivals.
Verizon‘s five gold medals across the overall coverage, 5G video, 5G live video, 5G games, and 5G upload categories are definitely nothing to sneeze at, but they’re arguably not enough for Big Red to lay a claim to the best network title either.
It also doesn’t help that this is basically the same result reported at the beginning of the year, which suggests that Verizon and AT&T are simply not growing at the right pace to mount a title challenge anytime soon. That’s especially clear for AT&T, which continues to hold one network availability crown and nothing else.
