Another day, another comprehensive report looking at the current state of the war for US 5G supremacy between the nation’s top three wireless service providers. Unsurprisingly, the nationwide data collected by Opensignal in the December 15, 2020 – March 14, 2021 timeframe yields radically different results from the latest research paper published by RootMetrics just a couple of weeks ago.
That’s because every mobile analytics firm uses its own methodology and metrics definitions to proclaim the industry’s leader from certain key standpoints, but also because the US 5G landscape remains, well, pretty messy and volatile, with each major carrier basically pursuing a different network upgrading and expansion strategy.
