Why is Verizon 5G slower than 4G?

Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband is the fastest 5G in the world . It’s 11x faster than AT&T’s 5G and 14x faster than T-Mobile’s 5G Nationwide.

Unfortunately, while the 5G side of DSS is legitimate 5G, of a sort, its actual performance is, in Verizon’s own words, “comparable to [its] award-winning 4G LTE.” This is due to a combination of factors, including congestion, the limitations of older hardware, and the same reliance on low-band frequencies .

With the exception of range-limited, super-fast Ultra Wideband 5G, 4G won by a landslide . In one location, 4G download speeds reached 815 Mbps, while 5G based on Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (that’s the widespread but slower variety known as DSS) only hit 358 Mbps.8 Mar 2021