Well, that's almost entirely due to Verizon's C-Band being pretty empty right now (5G phones are only a couple years old) and it being 2-5x the frequency and ba

Well, that's almost entirely due to Verizon's C-Band being pretty empty right now (5G phones are only a couple years old) and it being 2-5x the frequency and bandwidth of the bands they put 4g on. If they had put 4g on C-band, you'd probably be seeing the exact same performance. So, I guess what I'm saying is, if by "5g", you mean "the giant new swaths of high-frequency spectrum that carriers are building out", then 5g is amazing. Otherwise, it's nothing to even bother noticing, as a consumer.