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posted by martyb on Friday July 10 2020, @06:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the join-the-band[width] dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by EJ on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:54AM (1 child)

    by EJ (2452) on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:54AM (#1019325)

    That's an infrastructure problem. All the money wasted on 5G should be put into expanding fiber access.

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  • (Score: 1) by petecox on Saturday July 11 2020, @03:03AM

    by petecox (3228) on Saturday July 11 2020, @03:03AM (#1019341)

    The glory of capitalism is that corporations will favour profits over value to customers.

    Just don't repeat the Australian experience. Here the government owns the NBN rollout but it has been politicised. 100mbps is considered 'fast' and although I'm one of the 'lucky' and live in an area where are fresh 2gbps-capable cable was laid under our front lawn, good luck ever seeing that sort of throughput. Due to the maggots in parliament, it's entirely probable 5G will soon exceed home broadband, even if the technologies inevitably rely on the same bandwidth at the backend. Our Luddite political class can get stuffed.