WASHINGTON, DC: VERIZON WIRELESS
Verizon had the fastest 4G network in the Washington, DC metro area, and a
little bit of super-fast millimeter-wave 5G only helped cement its position.
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District: in Chinatown, Columbia Heights, Dupont Circle, and Takoma and near
the Potomac Avenue metro stop. If you spend a lot of time in those parts of DC,
it’s probably worth getting a Verizon 5G phone.
But I think the real story here is T-Mobile’s unusually good 5G performance.
Washington is one of the relatively few cities with T-Mobile mid-band 5G right
now, and we’re seeing it live up to its promises in the 47 percent of locations
where we got 5G connections with T-Mobile.
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262Mbps—faster than any 4G network. T-Mobile would have won, if it had
more comprehensive 2.5GHz 5G coverage, but we didn’t get any T-Mobile 5G
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the network later this year.
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