CHICAGO: VERIZON WIRELESS
Chicago is one of Verizon’s demo cities for its 5G network, and it’s where we saw
some of Verizon’s best 5G performance. Fortunately, Verizon’s 4G performance
was on point here too: While we got speeds of up to 1.7Gbps on Verizon’s 5G
network, we found it available at only 9 percent of our tested locations in the
city. That said, this is one of the few places where I’d say it really pays to get a
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a lot of Chicagoans like to go—downtown, River North, and the West Loop. If
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5G will give you considerably better performance.
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throughout Chicago, but I’m pretty sure we ran into a problem with T-Mobile’s
5G phones that you need to know about. In congested parts of Chicago,
T-Mobile uses a system called LAA that combines Wi-Fi airwaves with 4G for
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the result is that on sites that have both LAA and 5G, such as one test site we
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