What’s the best mobile network in Seattle according to experts?

Verizon ranks because the Seattle space’s high cellular community this 12 months among the many area’s three greatest carriers, PC Magazine present in its annual evaluation of Greatest Cellular Networks.

Context: In its thirteenth 12 months of testing, the tech publication’s consultants drove greater than 10,000 miles throughout America with the most recent 5G telephones to look at every service’s efficiency in 30 cities and 6 rural areas.

• Testers gauged cellular networks on knowledge and voice efficiency by means of assessments of velocity and reliability, developing with findings of how effectively Verizon, T-Cellular and AT&T carried out domestically, regionally and nationally.

Zoom out: T-Cellular was deemed the very best — and quickest — community nationwide, with successful performances in 18 of 30 cities, in comparison with Verizon’s eight and AT&T’s 4.

Zoom in: However within the Seattle space, Verizon outperformed the opposite two networks, the publication decided.

• AT&T got here in second right here, with T-Cellular rating third.

What they’re saying: “Verizon would not have the quickest downloads in Seattle — that is positively T-Cellular, which relies in close by Bellevue — however Verizon’s community is extra dependable,” PCMag discovered.

• “Verizon has the very best price of uploads and downloads above our minimal threshold, and whereas the distinction in dropped calls and connections is minimal, it is there.”

Of observe: You’ll want a more recent telephone — one which’s C-band suitable — to get the very best efficiency out of Verizon domestically, PC Magazine notes.

• That is as a result of solely these telephones can faucet into Verizon’s “ultrawide” 5G community, which is obtainable in lots of elements of the area and provides sooner speeds.