T-Mobile gets fastest network bragging rights in new Speedtest report

Good news, T-Mobile customers: You can claim bragging rights over your friends on other mobile networks... for now.

That's because the latest quarterly rankings from Ookla's Speedtest platform (which is owned by Mashable's parent company, J2) placed T-Mobile at the top of the network pack in terms of overall speed. In its first quarter report for 2021, Speedtest shows T-Mobile's performance outpacing rivals AT&T and Verizon.

The three networks were ranked by "Speed Score," a metric Speedtest uses that's supposed to be all-encompassing for analyzing network performance. The math is explained on the company's website, but the main thing to know is that the Speed Score weighs download speed very heavily, since that affects user experience more than anything.  Read more...