T-Mobile, Verizon Take Top Marks in Opensignal 5G Report
Verizon and T-Mobile split the honors in Opensignal’s July 5G experience report. Verizon won on 5G upload speed, with a score of 18.5 Mbps, “breaking T-Mobile’s streak of seven consecutive wins,” the company said: “AT&T lags behind its competitors with…
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a score of 12.1 Mbps, as T-Mobile and Verizon users’ average 5G upload speeds are 50% and 52.1% faster, respectively.” T-Mobile won on download speed, for the eighth consecutive time, with a score of 195.5 Mbps, which is “twice as fast as Verizon users and 2.4 times as fast as AT&T users,” Opensignal said. Verizon offers the best “5G Live Video Experience,” the report said. But T-Mobile’s network is more widely available. T-Mobile users spend 57.9% of their time on the 5G network, which is “2.8 times more than the time” spent by AT&T users “and nearly six times more than Verizon users,” Opensignal said.