A recent report has been released detailing the results of recent mobile broadband speed tests, which were carried out by PC World and Navarum.
For users of mobile broadband services in the United States speed is often amongst the most important things about the service that they choose, and there are many people that will base their choice of mobile broadband provider and plan on the speed that they are likely to get with the service. The choice could be made a little easier now following mobile broadband speed tests that were carried out recently by PC World and Navarum.
As part of the study 4G mobile broadband speeds were tested amongst different providers including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless. Trials were carried out in over two hundred and sixty location across the United States in thirteen different cities across the country. The testing was carried out during the first six weeks of this year.
The results showed that when it came to laptop modems the winner was the 4G LTE service from Verizon. This service, which is offered in thirty eight markets in the US, provided average download speeds of 6.44Mbps, which was over twice as fast as the provider in second place, T-Mobile, which offered speeds of 2.83Mbps with its HSPA+ service.
When it came to smart phone data downloads T-Mobile offered the fastest speeds according to the test results, with average download speeds of 2.82Mbps on its T-Mobile HTC G2. This was over fifty percent faster than the provider that came in at second place, which was Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G with an average speed of 1.5Mbps.
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Source – Fierce Mobile IT