Just one week after naming AT&T the best overall US carrier, RootMetrics is awarding T-Mobile its highest 5G honor for H2 2021 in both speeds and availabillity.
analyzing and comparing the user experience offered by the top three mobile network operators stateside. from this exact same analytics firm? What could have possibly changed in such a narrow window of time? The answer to that question is obviously"nothing"... except that a specific subset of data collected across the country during the second half of 2021 is examined this time around.
The goal is to find out which of the nation's major carriers currently delivers the best 5G availability, 5G speeds, and 5G reliability rather than evaluating the overall network performance of Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, and with 4G LTE connectivity out of the equation, the new champion's name is unlikely to come as a big surprise.
Of the 125 heavily populated US cities scrutinized in the final six months of last year, T-Mo managed to score the highest 5G availability test results in no less than 83 while"settling" for 48 individual 5G speed trophies. If the latter number doesn't feel quite as impressive as the former, you should try contrasting it with's 3 wins and AT&T's big fat 0 in the W column of that particular category, with the rest of the top prizes going unawarded for various reasons.
Granted, the H2 2021 5G reliability contest wasn't exactly close either, as Verizon narrowly edged out... the combined win tallies of silver medalist AT&T and bronze holdermaintain a 5G signal is definitely important, something tells us most"regular" smartphone users are way more interested in the other two network experience indicators.
The 5G speed category almost inevitably tends to attract the highest amount of attention, and while we've certainly grown used to seeing