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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Boston may be a metro area where AT&T’s recent loss in customers has been to<br />
its advantage. AT&T has dropped millions of subscribers in favor of T-Mobile<br />
and Verizon over the past few years. A less congested network is a more reliable<br />
network, and a shift of customers from AT&T to Verizon in the Boston area<br />
seems to have changed network conditions to AT&T’s advantage.<br />
CHARLOTTE: AT&T<br />
AT&T has done well in the Carolinas for several years, and it maintains its lead<br />
in Charlotte. While we saw some variability citywide, AT&T managed to<br />
maintain very respectable download speeds of 50Mbps to 60Mbps through<br />
several of our tests, outpacing its competitors, although Verizon had slightly<br />
higher peak speeds.<br />
This wasn’t a good city for T-Mobile or Sprint. T-Mobile’s network was reliable<br />
and usable, but it couldn’t keep speeds high enough to compete against AT&T<br />
or Verizon. Sprint’s network guttered out at several locations and doesn’t come<br />
off as a reliable choice across Charlotte.<br />
CHICAGO: AT&T<br />
AT&T won Chicago by having the most consistent high-speed network citywide.<br />
Verizon offered higher average upload and download speeds, but AT&T edged it<br />
out in terms of the percentage of tests with downloads over 5Mbps. Reliability is<br />
as important an aspect of perceived speed as the maximum speed you get in a<br />
city, so AT&T’s slightly more reliable network tipped the balance. Although<br />
Chicago is one of AT&T’s upcoming 5G Evolution (gigabit LTE) cities, we didn’t
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