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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Indianapolis is also one of T-Mobile’s weakest cities. T-Mobile has had historic<br />
problems here based on a lack of broad, deep spectrum lanes in Indiana and<br />
Ohio. Hopefully, it can close the gap over the next few years.<br />
KANSAS CITY: AT&T AND VERIZON (TIE)<br />
We saw some of our highest Sprint speeds nationwide in Kansas City, the<br />
carrier’s hometown. And yet AT&T and Verizon share the crown here—AT&T<br />
for spectacular download speeds and Verizon for consistency and low latency.<br />
Sprint’s problem was all about consistency. Throughout our Kansas City tests,<br />
we saw our Sprint devices shoot up to spectacular speeds, then plummet to very<br />
low speeds at a different location an hour later. While that doesn’t show up in<br />
our download averages, Sprint really took a hit in our measurement of the<br />
percentage of tests above 5Mbps.<br />
Building a uniform network has been a problem for Sprint, because the carrier’s<br />
spectrum is predominantly high-band and thus short-distance. The Galaxy S8’s<br />
HPUE (high performance user equipment) feature should have extended the<br />
reach of Sprint’s spectrum in Kansas City, but it doesn’t seem to have done<br />
quite enough.<br />
Let’s note that KC was one of the fastest cities we saw overall. All of the carriers<br />
are powerful choices here, and it’s one of the few Google Fiber cities. Kansas<br />
City is growing as a Midwestern tech hub, and it appears to have the<br />
infrastructure to suit.
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