PC Magazine July 2017
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you! PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you!
PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
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SALT LAKE CITY: T-MOBILE<br />
It’s T-Mobile by a nose in Salt Lake City, and I’m going to go as far as to say it’s<br />
T-Mobile with a big asterisk. T-Mobile barely won over Verizon, according to<br />
our methodology, because of much faster uploads and, surprisingly, better<br />
reliability in the urban Salt Lake area. T-Mobile has also dramatically improved<br />
its coverage in recent years, and we had solid LTE signal all the way down the<br />
I-15 corridor, including in Provo.<br />
But Verizon showed higher download speeds and better coverage in severely<br />
rural areas, which don’t factor into our SLC city score. If you go to Wyoming, for<br />
instance, you need Verizon. Ultimately, we recommend T-Mobile for the<br />
content-creating, urbanized Silicon Slopes set churning out videos in Salt Lake’s<br />
new tech hubs, and Verizon for people going to the actual slopes.<br />
SAN DIEGO: AT&T<br />
AT&T commanded some absolutely slamming download speeds in San Diego<br />
this year, showing a dramatic improvement over last year. Seriously, AT&T’s<br />
average speeds more than doubled from previous San Diego tests, letting it pull<br />
ahead of Verizon and a somewhat congested T-Mobile network to nab the win.<br />
I suspect these speeds are part of AT&T’s 5G Evolution plan, which is otherwise<br />
known as gigabit LTE. That means that for the best AT&T performance in San<br />
Diego, you’re going to need a Samsung Galaxy S8, an HTC U11, or another<br />
rumored future phone, such as the Motorola Z2 Force, that can handle gigabit<br />
LTE. AT&T customers in the San Diego area should definitely switch phones<br />
before they think of switching carriers.<br />
Sprint was very weak in both San Diego and Tucson.
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