T-Mobile vs Verizon vs AT&T: Crazy detailed new 4G and 5G tests yield two big nationwide winners

That does make the name of the overall loser pretty obvious, but let’s first focus on the positives:

Is Verizon the nation’s big 5G winner? Not so fast!

We’re talking about the 5G download speed and 5G availability crowns, and perhaps more importantly, the distance between T-Mobile and the competition in both these key sections of the latest Opensignal 5G experience report is absolutely mind-blowing.

Incredibly enough, T-Mo’s 5G availability supremacy is even more impressive when viewed through a regional rather than national lens, as the “Un-carrier” somehow manages to reign supreme in this field across all 50 US states.

Still, Verizon can certainly be proud of its five-award harvest, including the first-ever 5G live video experience title, and perhaps most importantly, a 5G upload speed category where T-Mobile remains a very close second and AT&T falls well behind its arch-rivals… similar to all the other fields.

 

Big Red’s clearest victory comes in the 5G games experience department, while AT&T is ranked dead last among the top three US carriers everywhere apart from the 5G availability contest, which Verizon is losing very badly at the moment.

T-Mobile offers the best overall mobile experience… statistically speaking

Before you start shouting in the comments section about all the issues and sluggishness you’ve historically experienced on T-Mo’s network, you may want to keep in mind how data and statistics work.

There’s no such thing as an infallible carrier, as proven by the sub-100 scores registered by all three operators across all categories of Opensignal’s combined 3G + 4G + 5G research, but T-Mobile is definitely the one that comes closest to 100 in the most contests, which means you’re much more likely to be satisfied with its overall mobile network experience wherever you live.

Last but certainly not least, T-Mobile is found to be the most overall “consistent” wireless service provider in the US by Opensignal’s data analysts, and the same operator absolutely crushes its rivals in both download speeds and upload speeds as well, which is hardly surprising given Magenta’s incredible edge in the 5G speed department and the rapid spread of that blazing fast technology.

All in all, it might not be its clearest win ever, but we feel pretty confident in naming T-Mobile as the US speed champion, followed closely by Verizon, which can flaunt a rather impressive number of “experience” victories of its own. Unfortunately, that leaves AT&T far behind the silver medal position, which must be disheartening to see for Ma Bell’s devotees.