This is one of the few AT towers
Every year, news hounds applying for PCMag hit the road to check on the quality and speed of U. S. cellular knowledge networks. USA Houston is one of the cities visited, and this year the winning national network also won the crown locally.
T-Mobile scored a decisive victory in the research because of its leadership in 5G, the high-profile next-generation standard. Verizon and AT
But as PCMag’s new effects show, the festival is catching up. Verizon, in particular, is aggressively expanding its mid-range service, while AT
PCMag’s website, which originated as the venerable PC Magazine in 1992, has been testing mobile networks for thirteen years, when 3G was the means through which most people accessed the internet via mobile devices. This year, according to leading mobile analyst Sascha Segan, the site’s reporters traveled 10,000 miles with a collection of smartphones placed on each car’s panels, constantly checking the speeds and reliability of the connection.
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The testers used software developed through Ookla, the same company that makes the popular Speedtest app and to check download and download speeds. The software made the phones run so intensely that they needed cooling hardware to prevent them from overheating, Segan wrote.
The main carriers’ cellular networks were tested in 30 towns this year, as well as six rural areas, one of which included Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. In Texas, a reporter made at least 12 stops in parts of Austin, Dallas and Houston. At the stop, the phones’ software worked for 15 minutes, testing speeds and making calls to a recorded message.
Each operator rated download and download speeds, as well as average knowledge speed; Latency or delay Interrupted calls and failed data connections. The combined score, with a weighting to emphasize reliability, is used to rank the 3 most sensitive operators.
Nationally, T-Mobile, the most productive network according to PCMag metrics, followed by Verizon and then AT.
In Houston, T-Mobile No. 1, with AT
last year, in
Segan told me in a direct message on Twitter that in Houston, AT’s C-band service
“Of the 252 minutes we recorded types of AT networks
This fits with my party in March, when I used an AT smartphone.
I also tested Verizon’s network in February. In Vienna, Verizon uses the same towers and frequencies for high-speed millimeter wave service that it uses for its 5G home broadband service. Houston, one of the first cities to get this service, designed to compete with Comcast and AT’s stressed home internet.
I’ve noticed C-band speeds between 700 Mbps and 1 gigabit consistent with the second, and while they weren’t ubiquitous, I didn’t want an AT representative.
While 5G has yet to live up to its first expectations, the service is improving. It will be very attractive to see the effects of PCMag testing next year, when the C-band will be less unusual for Verizon and AT.
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