5G download speed is now faster than Wi-Fi in seven leading 5G countries but not the US

Opensignal’s latest analysis demonstrates that 5G greatly improves the real-world speeds that users experience. And, even more significantly, 5G offers faster average download speeds than Wi-Fi in seven out of eight leading 5G countries. The US is the exception, where Wi-Fi continues to offer a small edge over 5G because of the large number of US 5G users connecting on widely available, but relatively slow, 5G networks that are deployed using low spectrum bands. In most countries, initial 5G services have been offered exclusively on fast, high-capacity, mid-band spectrum — around 3.5Ghz, sometimes called the C-band — but in the US T-Mobile and AT&T have launched their main service on low-band spectrum which has less capacity, but is better suited to offering wide coverage.