New York City has, in aggregate, the fastest mobile networks among the six largest cities in the Eastern half of the country, according to analysis from RootMetrics—and as far as individual networks, Verizon clocked the fastest aggregate network speed. The benchmarking company looked at speed results from its testing across the six most populated cities in the eastern U.S. in the second half of 2020 (Atlanta, Boston, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.) and ranked each one based on aggregate median download speed across 4G, and 5G where it was available.
