T-Mobile Was the Fastest U.S. Cellular Provider in Q1 2022

[kalafalas]

Also in the next quarter T Mobile will be able to roll out the full bandwidth of their 2.5/2.6 ghz with Sprint CDMA being turned off, and then add it to the Sprint PCS network. I really don’t see the numbers changing here. Just growing closer together.

Side note, what I really wanted to write here is that T-Mo’s ScamShield alone is worth the price of service. It actually works. I only have other experience with AT&T’s Call Protect, but that wasn’t so great - perhaps doing nothing more than putting a warning on the caller ID. With ScamShield, the phone doesn’t even ring - even when the logs show the robo dialer attempted me 58 times over 100 seconds. Not a 1 car warranty or other BS call since turning this on…

I still foresee Verizon surpassing T-Mobile next because of how much more rural coverage they have (assuming that gets updated with midband). My partner has AT&T and call protect is worthless. Call filter on Verizon works brilliantly!

 

[ds10]

We travel the country with Verizon and T-Mobile (and until recently, AT&T) all in a Peplink router with a high-performance antenna on the roof of our camper van. Where T-Mobile has service, it tends to be far and away the fastest, as this article says. The exception is in a few cities where the signals are great, but performance isn't.

Verizon tends to have OK performance but has wider coverage. Often that coverage is in slower bands. We use T-Mobile as primary, Verizon as backup. We gave up on AT&T as there were so few places where they were the only choice.

The speed from your mobile device to the tower is only a small part of the performance equation. The backhaul network from the tower to the Internet is often the biggest issue. Verizon appears to have congestion in the backhaul from towers that T-Mobile does not. AT&T just seemed to always have backhaul congestion.

 

[jdb8167]

I regularly get over 500 Mbps on T-Mobile ultra-capacity. It is so good in my neighborhood that I switched to using 5G internet at home. Much faster than Comcast and 1/2 the cost. If you haven’t tried T-Mobile since the Sprint merger was completed you might not have the full picture.

 

[MuGeN PoWeR]

Nice wifi connection.

lol you are not so smart are you? it literally says 5G in the screenshot LOOOL!

 

[usagora]

Works great for me in my area. I recently canceled my cable ISP and switched to T-Mobile’s 5G internet at my house and it’s been awesome so far.
View attachment 1993341

Not quite as fast for download speed here, but still nearly 5x faster than our broadband connection!

 

[yossi]

RAW speed is meaningless if there are coverage gaps everywhere and if the connection bounces between 2kb and 500mb every 30 seconds. What a **** horrible network

 

[kyleh22]

The 600Mhz band 71 works fine in buildings. Neither my wife nor I have any issues using our phones in office buildings in our area.

Now if you don't have a phone which can use that band, then you'll have issues.

I have an iphone x. I don't think i have those bands. that's really good information! thanks.

 

[deeddawg]

I have an iphone x. I don't think i have those bands. that's really good information! thanks.

Yes, especially if that iphone X were originally sold for AT&T and you unlocked and moved to T-Mobile.

It sucks that older phones can't necessarily use new features, but bands/frequencies are auctioned and carriers can only use the ones they have rights to use.