Overview
- J.D. Power’s 2026 U.S. Wireless Network Quality Study, drawing on feedback from more than 20,000 customers, underpins the new rankings.
- T-Mobile ranked highest in the Southeast and Southwest and tied Verizon for first in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and West.
- Verizon retained the North Central region, with UScellular second and T-Mobile third, underscoring regional variation.
- The result ends a decades-long pattern of single-carrier dominance and aligns with recent Opensignal and Ookla findings favoring T-Mobile.
- T-Mobile credits sustained investments in spectrum, towers, standalone 5G, 5G Advanced, and cloud-native architecture, while differing survey and device-based methods can yield different leaders.