The competition between mobile analytics firms like RootMetrics and OpenSignal can be just as fierce as Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T’s war for actual US wireless industry supremacy, so it really shouldn’t come as a surprise that both those companies have released new reports on the same day.
Interestingly, the findings of the two massive sets of network performance tests are far from identical, offering T-Mobile and Verizon two distinct (and equally legitimate) opportunities to claim big overall wins.
Verizon reigns supreme… when you consider both 4G LTE and 5G speeds
Speed is only part of the equation
While 75 percent of consumers are apparently more interested in data speeds than anything else when deciding what new phone to buy and on what carrier, the number of people closely monitoring 5G availability before making the same call is on the rise, from only 49 percent not that long ago to 59 percent right now.
The only aspect where AT&T is statistically tied with the nation’s top wireless service provider is the texting experience, while T-Mobile is ranked third (of three major mobile network operators) across the board.
What’s perhaps even more remarkable about Verizon’s reported industry dominance is the exact number of state and metropolitan victories racked up across a total area of over 300,000 miles. Specifically, 300 out of 350 state awards went to the overall champion, as well as a whopping 790 metro area wins when crunching data from close to 3 million tests conducted for the purposes of this very rigorous analysis.
