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T-Mobile has thousands more 5G cities than Verizon and AT&T, Ookla says:
T-Mobile has almost 20 times more 5G cities than AT&T and Verizon combined, according to a new analytics report by Ookla. T-Mobile is sitting on 5,013 cities with 5G -- and that's before adding in the former 5G sites of Sprint after the carrier's $26.5 billion merger with Sprint -- while AT&T has 237 5G cities and Verizon has 39.
Verizon was by far the fastest in speeds, though, charting at a speed score of 870 in comparison to AT&T's 78 and T-Mobile's 64 in Ookla's report.
"Only T-Mobile is doing the hard work to deliver 5G coverage and performance. Sure, it would be easier to deliver blazing speeds in postage stamp-sized areas like Verizon, but our strategy is different," said Neville Ray, president of technology at T-Mobile. "T-Mobile's strategy is built on delivering a meaningful 5G experience people can actually use."
There are now 5,164 cities across the US with 5G, according to Ookla.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Catalyst on Friday July 10 2020, @10:47PM (1 child)
To be fair, 5G has nothing to do with frequencies... They can blast it at 600mhz and has range and passes through walls just fine. The higher frequency signals are more localized for sure and offer the higher speeds. But yeah, I'm with you on the wires/fiber is better part.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @11:38PM
Yep. Just the slight improvements to the modulation algorithm should make 5g better than 4g at the same frequency. Wireless communications is a field where the theory is very mature and manufacturing ability is the limiting factor, so the steady incremental improvements are all relatively underwhelming.