T-Mobile achieves another clean sweep, winning every metric of Ookla’s Q4 Market Analysis
The Un-carrier leverages its industry-leading 5G spectrum position to improve speed and performance with 5G Carrier Aggregation
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The best just keeps getting better. T-Mobile– the most awarded 5G network in the U.S. – has earned yet another CLEAN SWEEP in a new independent third-party report published today by Ookla®! The report shows T-Mobile customers get the best network experience across the board in all six performance categories, including 5G speed, performance and availability as well as network speeds overall. This, as umlaut published results from eight major cities showing T-Mobile provides the fastest 5G speeds and greatest average 5G availability. And the Un-carrier’s 5G network is only going to get better as T-Mobile expands and improves 5G Carrier Aggregation (NR CA), now combining two channels of 2.5 GHz Ultra Capacity 5G spectrum to increase capacity for customers and expanding NR CA to cities across the country.
“Today’s wins confirm what over a dozen other studies have found in the last year: T-Mobile 5G is #1 in performance and coverage”
And T-Mobile isn’t stopping there! In its never-ending quest to drive the industry forward, the company recently reached record-breaking 5G upload speeds with 5G Dual Connectivity. In a test with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., T-Mobile exceeded 1 Gbps on upload (1005 Mbps to be exact) by combining 2.5 GHz Ultra Capacity spectrum with millimeter wave using a smartphone test device powered by Snapdragon® X65 5G Modem-RF System! Now THAT is fast!
“Today’s wins confirm what over a dozen other studies have found in the last year: T-Mobile 5G is #1 in performance and coverage,” said Neville Ray, President of Technology at T-Mobile. “Our competitors are years behind and scrambling to catch up. We’ll keep blazing ahead, reaching more and more people with Ultra Capacity 5G and spearheading new technologies. This is what you get when you combine the best 5G network with the hardest working team in the industry.”
In Ookla’s Q4 US Speedtest Global Market Analysis measuring nationwide network performance, T-Mobile took the top spot in ALL SIX network performance categories measured: Fastest Provider, Latency, Consistency, 5G Performance, 5G Availability, and 5G Consistency. T-Mobile’s rapid rollout of Ultra Capacity 5G drove a nearly 40% increase in median 5G download speeds from Q3, now clocking in at 187 Mbps nationwide. That’s faster than most home Wi-Fi and over 2x faster than Verizon 5G and over 2.5x faster than AT&T 5G. T-Mobile customers were also able to connect to 5G significantly more often than both Verizon and AT&T customers.
Research firm umlaut also published results for a report commissioned by T-Mobile, after examining 5G performance in Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, and Seattle. T-Mobile’s average 5G download speeds across the eight cities clocked in at 261 Mbps – more than 2x faster than Verizon 5G and nearly 4x faster than AT&T 5G in those cities. Testers were able to get a 5G signal on T-Mobile 96% of the time, versus just 88% of the time with AT&T and a sad 59% of the time with Verizon 5G.