my iphone 12 is humming along…

[Andy Burnelli]

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Opensignal is out today with its latest in-depth report on 5G. T-Mobile
continues to lead the pack when it comes to 5G download/upload speeds,
availability, and reach. Meanwhile, Verizon did repeat its wins for the 5G
Voice app and Games experiences in the latest report.

Glad it's working out for you. For most people, coverage is more
important than peak 5G download speed, but it it makes you happy to
ignore the coverage issue so be it.

except that t-mobile has *both* better coverage *and* better speeds,
and it's not even close.
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My reading of the above is that the 5G hype is WAY overblown. That
averages to 24% of phone users have 5G available at any given time.

How about four hundred megabits per second indoors?
<Loading Image...> T-mo 419 & 390 Mbps 5G UC

The 5G service in any one spot (e.g., at your home or place of work), is
consistent, so if it has 5G coverage, then you have 5G coverage 100% of the
time at that spot. These real-world readings are all taken INDOORS.
<Loading Image...> T-mo 377, 414, 443 Mbps

Given I never cared about 5G until I was fortuitously given a handful of
free 5G phones about a year ago by my carrier, I might have easily agreed
with Bob Campbell - but with these new 5G phones, I now know better.
<Loading Image...> Ookla test log results

Luckily for me I don't work - but - at home - the 5G service has just been
getting BETTER and better (see previous threads with badgolferman on that).
<Loading Image...> Speed tests over time

Notice the RSRP *indoors* is a very respectable low to mid nineties!
<Loading Image...> T-mo RSRP -91 to -96 dBm

Meanwhile, my own neighbors on Verizon can't even get the free femtocell I
personally had Verizon send them to work - due to crappy Verizon signal.
<Loading Image...> Verizon femtocell setup

Which mirrors my own observations. I have T-Mobile. Switching to 5G on
my 12 Pro Max makes no difference at all. Same bars, same speeds. Nothing
is faster.

At home I can get a couple hundred megabits per second, but routinely,
especially inside, I get only about half that - but admittedly I live in
the boonies where we don't even have cable yet on our power poles.
<Loading Image...> Redneck Internet

LTE is definitely more important than 5G at this point. And for the
record, I don't give a damn who makes the modem chip in my phone.

You don't care _who_ makes the modem but you might care if one modem is
half the performance of another - where performance is how you rate them.

You also might care if the modem bought from Qualcomm as opposed to being
sourced internally adds an appreciable percentage of the final sales price
of the iPhone in royalties and other fees Apple pays to Qualcomm.

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Post by Andy Burnelli
At home I can get a couple hundred megabits per second, but routinely,
especially inside, I get only about half that

in other words, the maximum speed of the modem doesn't matter, as you
have been told.