Five trophies for Verizon, four awards for AT&T, and… zero for T-Mobile
Even though Magenta’s rural issues have been well-documented and broadly discussed over the years, it’s certainly… not great to see the operator’s iconic color in third place almost across the board on a national level right now.
Yes, T-Mo apparently offers the worst reliability, speed, data, call, text, and video experience of America’s top three wireless service providers, only placing second for accessibility and failing to earn a single gold ribbon in the latest RootMetrics “State of the Mobile Union” report.

The best overall carrier is Verizon, but AT&T is not very far behind.


Verizon surpasses AT&T at a state level too, with T-Mobile ranking well behind the gold and silver medalists.
T-Mobile is still crushing the competition in median download speeds
Despite being eclipsed by both AT&T and Verizon in the overall speed section of this latest RootMetrics analysis, T-Mobile continues to tower above its rivals with a median download score of 307.6 Mbps. That’s up from “only” 250 Mbps in the second half of 2023, and for this year’s first six months, it represents a better result than AT&T and Verizon‘s combined median download speeds across 5G and 4G LTE signals.


All three of those speed scores are pretty impressive when you think about it.
How is it possible for T-Mo to hold such an impressive lead and still lose the overall speed battle so convincingly? Well, it appears that science sometimes works in mysterious ways… and that T-Mobile‘s network is simply not fast enough on a state-by-state basis, let alone at the rural level. Only 27 of the latest individual state speed prizes went to Magenta, which compares pretty favorably to Verizon‘s 23 tally, but less so to AT&T’s 40 trophies in the same category.
Both AT&T and Verizon are praised for their continuous speed improvements, but T-Mobile remains the only carrier of the three to exceed the 100 Mbps mark in all major 125 metropolitan markets tested, which further highlights how far behind the competition the “Un-carrier” still is in “minor” markets and rural areas nationwide.


The metropolitan war is won by Verizon, with T-Mobile ranking second.
Said 125 metro areas are all in all dominated by Verizon rather than T-Mobile, with AT&T being a pretty distant third placer in terms of individual RootScore awards. That also underlines Ma Bell’s massive advantage over the competition in most rural places across the nation, although at the end of the day, the main conclusion of this new RootMetrics study seems to be that everyone is making decent (at the very least) progress pretty much everywhere.
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