T-Mobile Now Bests Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint in Speed, Latency, and LTE Availability [Chart]

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Posted August 4, 2017 at 6:37pm by iClarified

T-Mobile has finally overtaken rivals Verizon and AT&T besting all major U.S. carriers in speed, latency, and LTE availability.

The news comes via an August OpenSignal State of Mobile Networks report which analyzed 5.07 billion datapoint collected from 172,919 OpenSignal users between March 31st and June 29th. OpenSignal examined 3G and 4G performance for all four major carriers.

T-Mobile's success is partially due to the new unlimited plans introduced by Verizon and AT&T. While their average speeds went down, T-Mobile's increased.

It's been a fascinating six months for the U.S. mobile industry. After years of retreating from all-you-can-eat data services, both Verizon and AT&T reintroduced unlimited plans this year to counter the increasing threat of T-Mobile and Sprint. Those new plans not only had a big impact on the competitive landscape in the U.S. but also on OpenSignal's metrics. Our measured average speeds on Verizon and AT&T's networks have clearly dropped, almost certainly a result of new unlimited customers ramping up their data usage. Conversely, T-Mobile and Sprint's 4G and overall speeds are steadily increasing in our measurements. Those shifting speed results were one of the main reasons T-Mobile swept our six awards categories for this reporting period. Despite T-Mobile's wins, the Un-carrier and Verizon are still engaged in a very close fight in our 4G metrics in the urban battlegrounds of the U.S.

Check out the charts below and hit the link for the full report.

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T-Mobile Now Bests Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint in Speed, Latency, and LTE Availability [Chart]

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EdtheRed - August 8, 2017 at 6:27pm

Opensingal can't possibly any accurate results. 173K Opensignal users (out of over 417 million carrier subscribers) is a minuscule sample size, not to mention, we don't know where these user are or how they are distributed among the carriers.

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Malcolm Tucker - August 5, 2017 at 10:02pm

T-Mobile is able to use AT&T and Verizon engineering diagrams to expand coverage. The new improvements are not a result of T-Mobile hiring a lot of new employees.. In fact, they're just using Verizon's engineering diagrams. T-Mobile doesn't have its own fiber network, and everything is on a lease basis. Not having control over assets, leaves the company to react to others price increases. In fact, T-Mobile announced a prices increase; now T-Mobile's unlimited price is the same as Verizon. Price Increases serve one primary purpose-- they exist to pursuade customers to reduce their usage because the airwaves are often overloaded.

Slybacon08 - August 4, 2017 at 11:27pm

Remember, these are overall results, not the results inside your house! My truck is connected to AT&T (unlimited for $20/month) and I use my truck's wifi (AT&T) when driving. It has about the same coverage and speed as my Tmo iPhone in my area (SLC). I don't see how AT&T or Verizon are going to get better, they have no more spectrum to use! Tmo has all the 600mhz coming down the pipeline that will further boost their speed and coverage.

Tech - August 4, 2017 at 11:17pm

This is incorrect AT&T is going soon to take over mark my words

ChiChi - August 4, 2017 at 10:19pm

Well not a surprise there...demand on their network is low so of course there will be no connectivity/speed/latency issues. watch it dive once people got fooled to switch because of this misinformation.

gamerscul9870 - August 5, 2017 at 12:11am

Low huh? I find that hard to believe because any areas users complained about not yet possible to connect to LTE is addressed in tweets not long after a post and eventually rolled out to be part of the coverage. They promised and delivered with few locations I have went to before and they don't lie.

ChiChi - August 5, 2017 at 9:38am

...and how many people you personally know that uses T-Mobile?...out of 200+ people I personally know (excluding family and relatives which BTW split between Verizon and AT&T)) none is on T-Mobile...either Verizon, AT&T or even the dreadful Sprint. It might be a small sample of customers but it does says something about the why people do not use T-Mobile. Doubt all you want I am just stating it from the facts I personally know but your statements are just assumptions.

Hmmm - August 4, 2017 at 7:47pm

That's a lie, not in south Florida. T-Mobile is garbage, stuck with it cause it's the cheapest.

gamerscul9870 - August 5, 2017 at 12:08am

Blather blather blather.