5G Clinches The Win for T-Mobile
Longtime readers, you’ll know what time of year it is: Time for PCMag to take to the road and measure mobile-network speeds across the country. It’s our twelfth annual Fastest Mobile Networks drive test, and that includes last year—we didn’t let a pandemic slow us down. This year, as 5G slowly takes over, one carrier shone brighter than the other two: T-Mobile won our national award for the very first time. As you’ll read in our cover story, it accomplished that win by expanding 5G coverage into mid-band spectrum: “T-Mobile’s new mid-band 5G network is the only nationwide 5G that’s markedly faster than 4G, earning the carrier its first-ever PCMag award for America’s fastest mobile network.” We also report the winning network for each of 50 major cities and for six regions…