RootMetrics has released a series of highly detailed new reports analyzing the national performance of three major US mobile network operators. Nowadays, instead of one big winner, two careers can actually win in his two areas of equal importance.
Believe it or not, the only companies in the “Big 3” industry that didn’t win the truly big trophy this time around are: verizon, somehow continues to lead the market in terms of both subscriber numbers and wireless revenue.Of course, things may change before too long. T-mobileThe recent immense progress in several key sectors related to customer and financial numbers is especially true if “Uncarrier” can continue to improve the largest 5G network in the United States.
Three 5G battles, one clear champion
Yes, we once again found that Verizon offers the most reliable 5G experience overall in major U.S. markets, based on nearly 2.3 million tests conducted in the second half of 2023.This is the same situation as in the first half of last year, although Red’s number of wins in this big category fell from 112 to 108, while AT&T and T-mobile Both have increased from 63 and 25 wins to 99 and 34 wins.
This is already a pretty worrying statistic for the nation’s largest wireless service provider, but the situation is only going to get worse. verizon Looking at the 5G availability and 5G speed sections of the latest RootMetrics survey:
These are T-Mobile’s playgrounds, and the gap between the leader and its rivals in two major categories makes the 5G race not seem like much of a competition at this point. Magenta incredibly offers his 5G availability, which is highest in a whopping 109 out of 125 major metropolitan markets, adding to his already outstanding record of 98 wins from the first half of 2023. It’s pushing up.
T-mobile also holds verizon AT&T is tied in the 5G download speed category with 69 trophies, but this number is actually much lower than the 85 gold ribbons it won in the first six months of last year. is.both verizon While it’s clear that AT&T has succeeded in significantly increasing 5G speeds in many areas with the help of recently acquired and deployed C-band spectrum, We will need many more advances in the future to hope to do so. same league as T-mobile…at some point.
It is not clear whether it is physically, logically, or technically possible. and In the medium term, T-Mo expects 5G speeds, 5G availability, and We are concerned about the sweet spot combination of both.
And the overall winner is…
do not have T-mobile. Were you surprised to hear that? If you’re not familiar with past RootMetrics reports, you might be even more surprised to see that AT&T topped his “US State of the Mobile Union” chart for the second half of 2023. The analytics company crowned the same champion for the first half of 2023 (as well as 2022 and 2021), with reliability, speed and data when considering all available mobile phone technologies, not just 5G connectivity. , won the calling trophy again.
Mar Bell also tied. verizon I won first place in the text category, verizon tied T-mobile Network Accessibility for Crown.Somewhat surprisingly, AT&T and verizon Although statistically tied for the overall mobile performance title, it’s hard not to see Ma Bell as the real winner here.
That too T-mobile This is a true national loser, underscoring once again how much room for progress there is in Magenta’s “outdated” but still vitally important 4G LTE network. After all, 5G is unlikely to achieve true ubiquity any time soon.
Magenta also has a lot to worry about when it comes to overall metro area performance. verizon In fact, we are leading in this space thanks to the impressive combination of an unparalleled 4G foundation and a rapidly improving 5G layer on top.AT&T managed to narrowly win at the state level. verizon 249-229 awards T-mobile The number of trophies won was only 76, which is not a huge number by any means.
But T-Mo can at least be satisfied with once again delivering America’s highest median download speed score…a landslide.But even that category is hard to ignore verizon AT&T has made steady progress from 77.9 Mbps and 77.3 Mbps to 111.9 Mbps and 108.9 Mbps, respectively. Of course, both of these numbers remain far behind Magenta’s average speed of 250 Mbps, but the average speed itself is an increase from his 213.2 Mbps in the first half of 2023.
