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Report: How Verizon and T-Mobile’s 5G home internet improved in 2023
and have continued their 5G home internet investments across 2023. Now Ookla is out with its latest independent report looking at how performance has increased for download and upload speeds as well as how the services compare in urban and rural areas. Ookla shared its latest titled “U.S. – The Rise of 5G FWA & The Battle for Fixed Broadband Customers”. Big takeaways from the new data include: As for download speeds across 2023, T-Mobile continued its lead but didn’t see much change starting at 119.89 Mbps in Q4 2022 and creeping up to a median speed of 122.48 Mbps by Q3 2023. Verizon made a notable improvement starting at 94.77 Mbps in Q4 2022 and increasing to 121.23 Mbps by Q3 2023 – almost matching T-Mobile. Upload speeds remained roughly the same for the year between 15-20 Mbps. Urban vs rural performance For urban customers, Verizon was slightly faster for download speeds with a median of 155.77 Mbps. But for rural customers, T-Mobile led by a big margin with a median speed of 91.96 Mbps. Ookla also looked at performance prior to switching to or and more. Check out the . AT&T its 5G home service this year called “ “. But it features much more limited availability and slower performance than both T-Mobile and Verizon. Read more about the similarities and differences between the two 5G home internet options in our full guide:
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