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: 1) by petecox on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:39AM
Yeah data caps would prevent me weening off wired broadband in favour of 5G tethering.
But if the stakes are raised to the point that 50GB/month/handset is as a bare minimum seen as a basic universal human right on the cheapest plan then yeah. c.f. our household wired broadband was previously capped at 100GB/month before the ISP has temporarily suspended the limit.
I will consider upgrading to 5G when the fans return. When there are towers everywhere, the only time I really notice the limits of current tech in urban environments is when neither stadium WiFi nor 4G data can cope with crowd density in a 100,000 seat venue.