There are two pillars that support the 5G user experience: Availability and performance. According to a new report from Rootmetrics, T-Mobile US is leading in 5G availability across US cities, but AT&T's 5G provides the best performance and AT&T and Verizon both win high...
The most-populous market in the U.S. -- New York City and its surrounds -- is also the fastest, according to a new ranking of metropolitan cellular networks by Rootmetrics.
New York City’s aggregate median download speed of 46.3 Mbps was the fastest in the country,...
Speed, speed and more speed: So much of the consumer expectations, and industry testing and bragging, are focused on the new heights of speed that 5G can achieve. The question of which operator has the fastest 5G network is one which has recently been...
In a mmWave world, turning a corner or spinning in your desk chair might very well mean your device losing the signal. While high frequencies have been used for point-to-point network backhaul links, cellular carriers have never before made common use of these frequencies...
Dr. Paul Carter is CEO of network benchmarking and analysis company GWS. RCR Wireless News recently reached out to GWS to discuss testing millimeter-wave 5G networks. The following Q&A was conducted via email and has been lightly edited.Â
How is benchmark testing different in mmWave,...
U.S. wireline networks held up well overall under the network usage shifts associated with the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data from benchmarking and analysis company umlaut provided exclusively to RCR Wireless News. The one exception seems to be related to ultra-high-definition streaming, which...
In RootMetrics' first round of benchmarking that used 5G-enabled devices to test both 4G and 5G networks, Verizon and AT&T ran neck-and-neck in most categories. But Verizon ultimately topped the rankings in most performance metrics, although AT&T outpaced Verizon in terms of speed.
RootMetrics temporarily...
Carriers' network investments are paying off with higher customer satisfaction
Global Wireless Solutions has crowned AT&T the "best network" in its third annual national testing, but all of the three national operators can find good news in GWS' latest network scoring, which couples nationwide drive-testing...
T-Mobile US has asked the California Public Utilities Board to modify some of its conditions on approval of T-Mo's acquisition of Sprint, zeroing in on the 5G deployment timeline, jobs within the state, and how the combined carriers' network will be tested.
The CPUC issued...
Verizon's network has provided it a consistent advantage over its competitors over the years. The differences are narrowing, according to data from RootMetrics, but the carrier still shows "consistent and excellent performance across the board" and has been stepping up its network speeds in...
Keysight says it has supported the development of about 75% of 5G devices
Pandemic notwithstanding, the march toward 5G is so far continuing at a rapid clip across the industry, with new networks launched since the beginning of the year, a surge of available devices...
Chief among the many shockwaves stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. is the country’s rapid transition to remote work. And with this disruption has come a dramatic transformation in the volume of wireless network traffic and in consumer connectivity habits and behavior:...
The coronavirus pandemic is turning the world on its head in many ways, and its impacts on networks are no exception. In some ways, the strains that is being placed on carrier networks is exactly the opposite of what they were designed for, according...
Among the 10 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., Chicago stood out as one of the highest-ranked cities in the country for mobile network quality, according to numbers from RootMetrics.
While overall network performance scores were generally pretty high in the largest U.S. cities, that...
LTE continues to gain ubiquity around the world, even in developing markets -- but the rivalry between Verizon and T-Mobile US has helped drive the availability of LTE in the United States to put the country in fifth place globally in terms of LTE...
Verizon keeps the national network crown that RootMetrics bestowed upon it in the first half of last year, with outright wins in most of the benchmarking company's six categories which held firm in its testing during the second half of 2018.
AT&T, the test company...
As mobile operators prepare for 5G, their existing 4G networks are benefiting from the increased densification, faster speeds and the extension of LTE's reach, according to OpenSignal's most recent report.
Though the first true 5G mobile network — one using 5G 'new radio' technology — has yet...
When the ball dropped on New Year's Eve, three teams from Global Wireless Solutions were testing carrier networks in New York's Times Square.
It took hours of waiting in line along to get the teams in place to do their ground-level testing, according to GWS...
P3 Group CEO discusses the evolution of testing and the role of crowd-sourced, device-based data
Crowd-sourced, device-based data offers new insights into the customer experience and cost savings for network planning and optimization purposes, according to Hakan Ekmen, CEO of P3.
P3's approach to benchmarking has...
Verizon's official launch of its 5G fixed wireless access service is only two days old, but Mike Thelander and Emil Olbrich of Signals Research Group are already on the ground in Houston, Texas, field-testing the live network's capabilities.
Houston is one of four initial launch...
GWS says recent U.S. mobile network testing is its most-comprehensive ever
AT&T was rated the best mobile network, in what benchmarking company Global Wireless Solutions is calling its most comprehensive U.S. testing program to date. Verizon was ranked second; T-Mobile US came in third; and...
RootMetrics tests tech hubs' mobile coverage
The top technology-hub cities with the best mobile coverage are Washington, D.C. and Seattle, Washington, according to the latest testing from RootMetrics.
As part of the data analysis from the network benchmarking firm's its latest round of testing of 125...
Boost in network speeds seen as 'indication of network capabilities to come'
Mobile network operators are significantly boosting their network speeds, and T-Mobile US came out on top in speed testing in two new reports from OpenSignal and Ookla.
"Operators are beginning to cross the 20...
Dozens of companies have asked the Federal Communications Commission for special temporary authority (STA) to conduct testing in the CBRS band over the last few years. Here are some of the STA permissions granted by the FCC in 2018 for testing CBRS:
- CDE...
