Ookla Names T-Mobile Fastest, Most Consistent Mobile Service Provider

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2022 – A market report released Monday by performance metrics company Ookla named T-Mobile as the fastest and most consistent mobile operator in the United States during the second quarter of 2022, with a substantial percent of its customers spending the majority of time on its 5G network in that period.

The latest report for April, May and June showed that T-Mobile achieved a median download speed of 116.54 Mbps with its competitor Verizon Wireless averaging at 59.67 Mbps and AT&T at 54.64 Mbps.

The company also scored the highest in upload speeds, averaging at 11.72 Mbps with Verizon and AT&T trailing at 9.14 Mbps and 7.00 Mbps respectively. Median latency – the time it takes the device to communicate with the network – for T-Mobile was 31 milliseconds, with Verizon at 32 ms and AT&T at 34 ms.

According to company’s Speedtest Intelligence data, T-Mobile also had the highest consistency in the U.S. with 85.7 percent of results showing at least 5 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload speeds.

T-Mobile continues to take the cake for the fastest median 5G download speeds in the U.S. at 187.33 Mbps, a slight decrease from the first quarter results. According to the Ookla report, 68.5 percent of T-Mobile customers spent a majority of their time on 5G networks during the quarter compared to 31.2 percent of Verizon customers.

T-Mobile was named the fasted mobile provider in the first quarter of 2022 and was reported to be the leading provider in 5G performance last month.

The report named Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra as the fastest popular device in the United States and the District of Columbia as the top spot for fastest median mobile download speeds at the state level.

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