- A study found that out of the big three, T-Mobile has the largest percentage of 5G users who spend the majority of their time on 5G in both urban and rural areas.
- The big three have focused much of their attention on Illinois and Nevada in terms of building out their 5G availability.
- Wyoming has the lowest 5G availability for all three carriers.
If you live in a big city, you don’t really have to worry about connecting to a 5G network. It’s once you leave an urban market and enter into a rural area that 5G availability really drops. For those who reside in rural areas, it looks like T-Mobile is your best bet for accessing a 5G network. This is the conclusion a new report has reached after looking into 5G availability across the country.
The folks over at Ookla have released a report on how likely a user, on average, is to have 5G service available to them in urban and rural areas. This study measures 5G availability in these markets between January 2019 and October 2024. Ookla states that its results are derived from comparing Speedtest users on 5G networks from the top three providers in the US.