T-Mobile and Samsung are the champions of Ookla’s newest 5G speed tests

While you may have grown used to seeing each new US 5G market report differ greatly from the previous one in their overall findings and ranking of the best wireless service providers, Ookla’s latest speed tests just so happen to yield similar conclusions to Opensignal last week.

The key difference between the two companies is that smartphone vendors and smartphone models are analyzed today in addition to mobile network operators (and fixed broadband providers), with some pretty interesting numbers and hierarchies put together at the end of the year’s third quarter likely to stir controversy among the hardcore fans of certain brands.

T-Mobile is by far the nation’s fastest carrier

Magenta is also tied and “statistically tied” with Big Red at the top of the overall latency and 5G consistency charts respectively, which leaves Ma Bell with a grand total of zero titles after not one but two different market reports looking at recent performance measurements carried out across the country.

When combining the median mobile download scores of the nation’s top three wireless carriers, the District of Columbia was found to lead the regional speed hierarchy, followed by New Jersey and Delaware, while Pittsburgh and Tampa eclipsed all of the other large cities surveyed between July and September.

In case you’re wondering, T-Mo’s median 5G speeds jumped from 99.84 to no less than 135.17 Mbps in just three months, absolutely crushing Verizon’s stagnant and AT&T’s declining numbers. Now that’s an industry supremacy unlikely to be challenged anytime soon.

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