Community intelligence supplier Ookla’s newest analysis exhibits that T-Cellular had the quickest cellular community within the US, and that Xfinity edged out a number of opponents for the highest spot amongst mounted suppliers within the fourth quarter of 2022, the corporate introduced this week.
The median obtain velocity for T-Cellular clients, Ookla stated, reached over 151Mbps, marking a pointy improve from the corporate’s 116Mbps mark within the earlier quarter, which was already ok to make T-Cellular the quickest cellular provider by a distance.
Verizon and AT&T posted beneficial properties — rising from round 58Mbps within the third quarter to 69Mbps and 65Mbps, respectively — however each had been far behind T-Cellular. 5G efficiency particularly, T-Cellular once more led the way in which by a substantial margin, posting a median 216Mbps obtain velocity, in comparison with 128Mbps from Verizon and 85Mbps from AT&T.
The massive three had been extra tightly packed with regards to latency, nevertheless. T-Cellular gained on this class once more, with a median multiserver latency of 56ms, however Verizon was shut behind at 58ms, and AT&T posted a 60ms common. Controlling for 5G connections solely, Verizon really gained the class for the final quarter, with 53ms common latency in comparison with T-Cellular’s 54ms. (AT&T hit the 59ms mark.)
An analogous scenario prevailed by way of consistency, which Ookla measures as the proportion of connections exhibiting not less than 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up. T-Cellular gained this class once more, with a rating of 86.8%, however Verizon and AT&T had been each shut behind, at 82.4% and 81.1%, respectively.
In mounted broadband, the panorama was extra aggressive — Spectrum dropped from first to second place as Xfinity moved up from third to take the highest spot, with a median obtain velocity of 226Mbps within the final quarter of the yr. The highest three mounted broadband suppliers had been tightly clustered, nevertheless, with Spectrum shut behind Xfinity at 225Mbps and Cox solely barely farther again at 212Mbps.
Add speeds had been a considerably completely different story, nevertheless, with AT&T far out in entrance at a median velocity of 142Mbps, trailed distantly by Verizon at 104Mbps. Optimum and Xfinity posted 29Mbps and 20Mbps speeds, respectively, whereas Spectrum and Cox trailed at 11Mbps and 10Mbps every.
Latency-wise, the clear winner was Verizon, which posted a median 15ms determine, with AT&T languishing in second at 23ms. Optimum, Cox and Xfinity all posted scores of 24 or 25ms, with Spectrum mentioning the rear at 32ms.
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