How do the initial 5G strategies of the Big Four carriers in the U.S. match up? Opensignal took a look and found that speeds are all over the map—but coverage often isn’t. Spectrum choices appear to the the primary defining factor in 5G at this point in its development.
While OpenSignal noted that it has previously found that even in LTE, the spectrum on which a given device is operating heavily influences the user experience, there are even larger discrepancies in achieved speeds (and coverage) in a 5G context, based on the spectrum each carrier is using (or which spectrum a device can access).
