Using the filters will show you just how much coverage is actually in your area, as well as whether or not you can expect decent coverage to arrive.įor even more information and context, Ookla also includes a live Twitter feed showing updates to the official Ookla 5G Map account. In the top-left corner of the map, you’ll see filters that break the map icons down into “commercially available” 5G, “limited availability” 5G and “pre-release” 5G, which shows locations where 5G will soon be installed. Ookla’s 5G map also contains other data points that can clue you into 5G developments as they unfold. The company said in a blog entry that the data is currently based on press releases and other publicly available communications, but that “as deployments continue to become commercially available and tests taken with Speedtest use a 5G connection, identified deployments will also be based on Ookla data.Tap or click here to see some of the 5G phones you can upgrade to right now. The commercial deployment locations include Verizon’s network in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois. cities where Ookla has identified an active 5G network, most of them are considered limited availability deployments, via AT&T’s network.

Ookla puts the 5G deployments into two categories: commercial availability, meaning that a device is available that any consumer can purchase and use on the 5G network or “limited availability,” meaning that a 5G network is present, but only select users have access to it - so it’s often still in the testing phase. And Ookla is only counting 5G New Radio deployments, not Verizon’s 5G TF or AT&T’s “5G Evolution” markets, which incorporate technologies that most operators identify as advanced LTE. That doesn’t translate to 294 individual 5G sites the locations are identified at a city level. The company has identified 20 operators around the world that have 303 active 5G deployments in 294 locations.

As early 5G network deployments get underway, Ookla Speedtest has published an interactive online map of locations where 5G networks can be found.

Ookla map