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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Verizon really gave T-Mobile a run for its money, though, as we’ve seen in many<br />
other cities. The constant back-and-forth dueling is what put them so close in<br />
our national results. T-Mobile primarily won in Dallas because of better upload<br />
speeds, which are important now that many people are uploading videos to<br />
social media. T-Mobile’s reliability is also now within one percent of Verizon’s<br />
and AT&T’s in the Dallas area.<br />
As we saw elsewhere, Sprint achieved very good peak speeds but was hit by<br />
consistency issues. Sprint lacks low-band spectrum, which fills the gaps<br />
between high-frequency hot spots. In Dallas, Sprint stalled out at South Beacon<br />
Street and Lindsley Avenue, and our phone dropped off the LTE network<br />
entirely on one of our downtown tests. Sprint needs to fill in these gaps.<br />
DENVER: T-MOBILE<br />
With the fastest download and, especially, upload speeds, T-Mobile is the clear<br />
choice in Denver. The biggest difference we saw between the winner and the<br />
competition in Denver was on uploads. That’ll matter quite a lot when you have<br />
your GoPro live streaming through your phone on the ski run, when you’re<br />
trying to broadcast tasty videos of your pot edibles, or when you’re doing any<br />
other task that involves content creation and cheap Denver stereotypes.<br />
Digging a little deeper, Sprint fell back this year because of consistency issues.<br />
All the carriers hit soft spots, but a third of our test locations were tough for<br />
Sprint, which dragged down both its overall averages and its consistency score.<br />
We didn’t see spectacular speeds in Denver all around.
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