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or our 11th year of speed testing major wireless networks across the
country, we drove to 26 US cities to see if 5G lives up to the hype. The
answer: not quite yet. While Verizon regains the title of fastest mobile
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coverage. And AT&T’s and T-Mobile’s 5G networks don’t help their overall
performance much.
We’ve been testing and rating mobile networks since 2010, and this is the
strangest network transition we’ve ever seen. For one thing, we’re in the midst
of a global pandemic. Rather than have a fewer number of drivers work their
way down the east or west coasts testing multiple cities at a time, this year we
had two dozen local drivers test their own cities under our supervision using
Samsung Galaxy S10 and S20 series phones. We chose these phones because
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We provide individual results for each of our test cities so you can see which
carrier is the fastest where you live. Check later in this story to see your home
city or the one closest to you.
THE FASTEST MOBILE NETWORK FOR 2020: VERIZON
