{"id":12057,"date":"2023-11-29T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/12057\/report-shows-t-mobile-is-still\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:38:09","slug":"report-shows-t-mobile-is-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=12057","title":{"rendered":"Report shows T-Mobile is still the fastest 5G provider at 16 out of 20 major U.S. airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report shows T-Mobile is still the fastest 5G provider at 16 out of 20 major U.S. airports\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Research firm <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opensignal.com\/2023\/11\/29\/atts-and-verizons-scores-take-off-around-the-us-airports-after-5g-interference-mitigations-ease\" class=\"external\">Opening signal<\/a> released a new report today that notes how 5G data speeds from AT&#038;T and <span>Verizon<\/span> near airports has improved markedly after carriers were allowed to increase the power levels of their C-band spectrum near airports in early July.  Additionally, both companies have added additional C-band spectrum in the region.  First, some context.  It all dates back to T-Mobile&#8217;s $26 billion acquisition of Sprint, a deal that was made so that <span>T Mobile<\/span> could get its hands on Sprint&#8217;s 2.5GHz mid-band spectrum trove.<\/div>\n<div>While AT&#038;T and Verizon began building out their 5G networks using high-band airwaves, T-Mobile used mid-band spectrum obtained from Sprint.  Due to high band characteristics, AT&#038;T and <span>Verizon<\/span> faced slower deployment;  Although they offer faster data download speeds, mmWave signals are limited in range.  So what good are higher data speeds when only a small percentage of your customers can connect to them?<\/div>\n<p><h2>Using mid-band spectrum acquired from Sprint, T-Mobile took the U.S. lead in 5G<br \/><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>Meanwhile, the mid-band has proven to be the Goldilocks of wireless.  Sure, it might not offer the blazing speeds that mmWave can, but mid-band signals travel greater distances than high-band.  Therefore, <span>T Mobile<\/span> was able to connect more of its customers to faster 5G signals.  After seeing what was happening, AT&#038;T and Verizon spent $68 billion between them to obtain licenses to use mid-band spectrum in the C-band.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"gallery-78a833f8-d3fc-4840-a1f5-35eb54a29bce\" class=\"single-image-container  image-c\" style=\"width:1119px;max-width:100%\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 54.512957998213%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Report-shows-T-Mobile-is-still-the-fastest-5G-provider-at.jpg\" alt=\"T-Mobile's 5G services were wiped out at this airport.  Report shows T-Mobile is still the fastest 5G provider at 16 of the top 20 US airports.\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was a total victory for T-Mobile&#8217;s 5G services at this airport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There was a small problem.  Some of the C-band waves that <span>Verizon<\/span> and AT&#038;T detected interfered with altimeters used by planes flying near airports.  Since this instrument tells pilots how far from the ground the plane they are flying is, AT&#038;T and <span>Verizon<\/span> had to reduce the strength of their 5G signals near airports while planes were equipped with different altimeters.<\/p>\n<p>On July 1 of this year, AT&#038;T and <span>Verizon<\/span> have been allowed to increase the power levels of their 5G C-band services and add additional C-band spectrum in the region.  Opensignal measured two different 90-day periods.  The first began on April 1 and continued until both carriers were allowed to increase their power levels.  The second 90-day period began Aug. 1 and covers a period when mitigation efforts eased around airports.  Data was collected within a three-kilometre radius of the central point of 20 US airports.<\/p>\n<div>Data showed that AT&#038;T and <span>Verizon<\/span> have sharply increased their 5G data download speeds after easing mitigation efforts.  AT&#038;T&#8217;s 5G data download speeds increased 79.6% while <span>Verizon<\/span>&#8216;s increased by 62.1%.  The pair&#8217;s average 5G download speed was what Opensignal called a &#8220;statistical tie&#8221; at 126.9-132.2 Mbps. <span>T Mobile<\/span>5G data download speeds near these 20 airports showed no change, but the wireless provider&#8217;s speed is ahead at these airports over AT&#038;T and <span>Verizon<\/span> shrank.<\/div>\n<p><h2>Of the 20 airports where data was collected, T-Mobile had the fastest 5G data download speed in 16 of them.<br \/><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Before AT&#038;T and <span>Verizon<\/span> were authorized to increase 5G power levels on their C-band service near all 20 airports and to field additional C-band spectrum, <span>T Mobile<\/span>Average 5G download speeds were 2.4 times faster than AT&#038;T and 2.1 times faster than AT&#038;T. <span>Verizon<\/span>&#8216;s.  After the relaxation of mitigation measures, <span>T Mobile<\/span>The lead was reduced to 32-37.5%.<\/p>\n<p>However, results vary greatly depending on which airport you look at.  For example, at Boston Logan International, AT&#038;T customers enjoy the fastest average 5G data download speeds at 130.2 Mbps, putting them in a statistical tie with <span>T Mobile<\/span>That&#8217;s 114.8 Mbps.  At Chicago O&#8217;Hare International, AT&#038;T led with an average 5G data download speed of 193.6 and <span>T Mobile<\/span> was third with an average speed of 49.6 Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>At some airports, like George Bush Intercontinental in Texas, there is a wide disparity in average 5G data download speeds.  At this airport, <span>T Mobile<\/span> is the fastest with an average of 120.6 Mbps while AT&#038;T is second with an average of 36.4 Mbps and tied statistically with <span>Verizon<\/span>That&#8217;s 29.6 Mbps.<\/p>\n<div>Of the 20 airports used in the study, <span>T Mobile<\/span> had the fastest average 5G data download speeds with 16 of them from August to October.  AT&#038;T was next as it had the fastest average across three airports while <span>Verizon<\/span> had the fastest average 5G data download speed in an airport.<\/div>\n<p>The 20 airports included:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall<\/li>\n<li>    Boston Logan<\/li>\n<li>    Charlotte Douglas<\/li>\n<li>    Chicago O&#8217;Hare<\/li>\n<li>    Dallas-Fort Worth<\/li>\n<li>    Denver<\/li>\n<li>    Intercontinental George Bush of Houston<\/li>\n<li>    Las VegasHarry Reid<\/li>\n<li>    Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta<\/li>\n<li>    New York, JFK<\/li>\n<li>    Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>    Miami<\/li>\n<li>    Nashville<\/li>\n<li>    Liberty of Newark<\/li>\n<li>    Orlando<\/li>\n<li>    Phoenix Sky Harbor<\/li>\n<li>    Ronald Reagan Washington National<\/li>\n<li>    San Diego<\/li>\n<li>    San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>    Seattle-Tacoma<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report shows T-Mobile is still the fastest 5G provider at 16 out of 20 major U.S. airports\u060c Research firm Opening signal released a new report today that notes how 5G data speeds from AT&#038;T and Verizon near airports has improved markedly after carriers were allowed to increase the power levels of their C-band spectrum near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6703,3711,2232,4969,846,1308,862,802],"class_list":["post-12057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-airports","tag-fastest","tag-major","tag-provider","tag-report","tag-shows","tag-tmobile","tag-u-s"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12059,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057\/revisions\/12059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}