T-Mobile has received some great news this week. The magenta carrier has finally overtaken Sprint, becoming the third-largest carrier in US. And its mobile network is said to be the fastest in the country, a title which will undoubtedly find its place in many comparisons against more popular rivals AT&T and Verizon.
Sprint's latest earnings report is what has actually confirmed T-Mobile as the third-largest mobile carrier in US, revealing 57.7 million subscribers to the latter's 58.9 million subscribers. The speed title comes from Ookla, the company behind renowned Internet speed testing app, and website, Speedtest.net, which has posted results for the four-largest carriers in US.
T-Mobile has come up at the top of the charts thanks to an average download speed of 19.62 Mbps and average upload speed of 9.90 Mbps. Both figures are higher than what any of its competitors have managed to offer.
Ookla says that T-Mobile offers the strongest performance in urban areas in the Northeast and Western cities. Wideband LTE, a technology which offers better performance without requiring customers to get new devices to benefit from it, is offered in 185 markets, playing a major part in T-Mobile's performance.
Verizon comes second, followed by AT&T and Sprint. Big red's results are actually close to T-Mobile's, with its average download speed being 18.52 Mbps and an average upload speed of 7.27 Mbps. There is a huge gap, however, between Verizon, and AT&T and Sprint.
The average download and upload speeds for AT&T are 14.61 Mbps and 6.04 Mbps, respectively, while for Sprint they are 10.44 Mbps and 4.12 Mbps. Clearly, Sprint has lots of work ahead to catch up to AT&T, let alone Verizon and T-Mobile.
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