Big Carriers Blasted for 5G Speeds: ‘Compare Yourself to Other Countries’

… the largest nationwide 5G network in the U.S. Moreover, the company said increased midband spectrum rollouts are improving speeds.

“Testing has shown download speeds of up to 1 Gbps and average speeds of around 300 Mbps on T-Mobile’s midband 5G. That’s 7.5 times faster than today’s average LTE speeds. With more low and midband spectrum than anyone else in the U.S. and dedicated spectrum for 5G, T-Mobile is the only one delivering 5G with both coverage and speed. T-Mobile 5G is running circles around the competition and meanwhile, Verizon’s 5G is only available less than 1% of the time in parts of a few dozen cities,” T-Mobile said.

Verizon and AT&T did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sobel said partners – MSPs in particular – function as integrators and combiners rather than as builders; thus, they rely on manufacturers to make their jobs possible. He pointed to IoT and smart cities as markets that the technology channel can open up once the proper infrastructure falls into place.

“You’re waiting on the upstream pieces to do their jobs, to go unlock this possibility. I don’t think anyone denies there are all these possibilities. We have all this great potential here. We’ve all identified it. We’ve been talking about it for years now,” he said.