Which company has best 5G?

Major U.S. carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have all launched versions of 5G broadly enough to tout the claim of nationwide service. T-Mobile also marked a recent milestone on its mid-band 2.5 GHz deployment of reaching 200 million people ahead of schedule and next has sights set on 300 million by end of 2023.

When it comes to 5G winners, network carriers are at the top of the list. Verizon recently said its 5G network will cover 100 million people in more than 1,700 cities by the end of January 2022. The company may need to revise that estimate after it agreed on Jan.

RootMetrics ran its tests in the largest 125 cities in the U.S., and found that T-Mobile had the fastest 5G download speeds in 48 markets, compared to three for Verizon and zero for AT&T. Median download speeds for T-Mobile, topped 100 Mbps in more than half the cities RootMetrics tested in.