Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Speed and Phones


For the past couple of months Verizon has been making a claim that their network has better coverage. PC World does periodic studies of all the networks for their upload and download speeds as well as their reliability. The most recent results (from Apple Insider) show that at this point, Verizon's claims are a bit hollow - except perhaps in San Francisco.

I am not sure how PC World chooses cities - LA is not included but it sure looks like AT&T looked at similar results of last Spring and did a good job of increasing capacity and reliability. Here is what PC World concluded "Our most recent tests showed that the connection speeds delivered by AT&T's network -- both downloads and uploads -- increased considerably in every one of our test cities, compared with the speeds it registered in identical tests we conducted last spring."

Interestingly T-Mobile, which has slower uploads and downloads does pretty well on reliability.

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