Move over Verizon and Sprint.  Despite commercial claims, a new study shows T-Mobile vying for the top mobile network title. The February 2017 OpenSignal “State of Mobile Networks Report” collected 4,599,231,167 data points from 169,683 users between October and December, 2016, to determine where the nation’s top wireless carriers excelled or under performed. Verizon and T-Mobile tied for first place or won in six data categories, says Fox Business. AT&T and Sprint finished third and fourth, respectively.

The report indicates Verizon and T-Mobile have the best 4G download speeds and overall download speeds. Verizon was first place in two other categories: “Latency: 4G” and “Availability: 4G.” T-Mobile won in the same categories for 3G coverage. According to OpenSignal, “The LTE speed race between T-Mobile and Verizon has long been a close one, but in our last U.S. report T-Mobile held the edge. That narrow lead, however, disappeared in our latest round of testings. We measured average LTE download speed on T-Mobile at 16.7 Mbps and on Verizon at 16.9 Mbps, results close enough to produce a statistical tie.”

Despite the differences between the networks, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have been able to expand 4G LTE coverage. “In the last six months, all four operators saw significant improvements in their 4G availability scores,” states the report.