“Verizon has been able to maintain solid performance in areas of high traffic a drop in performance since Verizon launched Unlimited.”Īnd in terms of U.S. “Verizon’s rural coverage is laudable,” Ookla said. Ookla spotlighted Verizon in particular, highlighting the network’s “network densification” and deployment of small cells in urban, suburban, and commercial areas. Its coverage fell short of AT&T and Verizon’s, which made up 27.3 and 51.6 percent of Ookla’s test samples in rural areas. “ all carriers are responding equally to the performance demands of unlimited data plans,” Ookla said. T-Mobile and Sprint saw the opposite effect.
In the fourth quarter of 2016 before the launch of the unlimited plans, Verizon and AT&T’s lowest-end download speeds (those under 5 Mbps) shot up compared to the period before unlimited data plans were widely available, according to Ookla. And it pegged competitors’ declining speeds on unlimited data plans. Ookla attributes T-Mobile’s achievements to its infrastructural investment, which saw the rollout of the 700MHz spectrum and 4G LTE in new markets. It’s the 14th quarter in a row in which T-Mobile came in first. T-Mobile scored the highest in Ookla’s Speed Score rankings, an average of low-end, median, and top-end speeds. Subscribers speeds regularly exceeded Ookla’s Acceptable Speed Ratio - a download rate of at least 5 Mbps - 78.1 percent of the time, ahead of Verizon Wireless (77.8 percent), AT&T (75.9 percent), and Sprint (64.9 percent). T-Mobile is the fastest carrier in 40 of the U.S.’s 100 most populous cities, according to Ookla.
That is according to the newest Ookla Speedtest report, which analyzed crowdsourced test results taken during the first and second fiscal quarter of 2017.
Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint all lag behind T-Mobile when it comes to 4G LTE speeds. T-Mobile’s first-place finish in Ookla Speedtest cement the carrier’s reputation for high-speed downloads.
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