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by: Monty Solomon - Sat, 1 May 2021 01:08 UTC

By Jon Brodkin

US mobile customers are almost never able to connect to
millimeter-wave networks even though the cellular industry and Verizon
in particular have spent years hyping the fastest form of 5G.

AT&T and T-Mobile customers with devices capable of using
millimeter-wave networks were connected to mmWave 5G only 0.5 percent
of the time during the 90-day period between January 16 and April 15,
2021, according to an OpenSignal report released today. Even on
Verizon, the carrier with the most aggressive rollout of mmWave 5G,
users with compatible devices spent 0.8 percent of their time on the
high-frequency network that uses its large capacity to provide faster
speeds than low- and mid-band spectrum.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/verizon-leads-all-us-carriers-in-mmwave-5g-availability-at-0-8/

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Verizon "leads" all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at 0.8% [telecom]	Monty Solomon