United States Speedtest Market Report. Using the same nationwide lens, Speedtest Intelligence data reveals which carrier is the fastest in the U. S. as a whole. Though this is a country wide view, carrier rankings remain the same when we limit the analysis to the 1. Cellular Market Areas CMAs. There are also other important ways to assess networks, including performance in top markets and consistency of acceptable speeds both of which we explore later in this report. T Mobile is the fastest carrier nationwide. T Mobile has the fastest mobile network in the United States, clocking in with a Speed Score of 2. Q1 Q2 2. 01. 7. The combination of a tightly spaced cell site grid and a smaller subscriber base than Verizon and AT T could be the keys to T Mobiles success in the U. S. market and to their ability to support the exponential growth in mobile data consumption. Leveraging 7. 00. MHz spectrum, T Mobile has been expanding its LTE footprint into new markets. Additionally, T Mobile has been aggressively refarming their spectrum, previously used for legacy technologies such as GSM and WCDMA, and committing those assets to the more efficient LTE technology. With the fastest time to market when rolling out advanced LTE features such as Wi Fi Calling, HD Voice, Vo. LTE using Enhanced Voice Services Codec, various capacity enablers such as Higher Order Multiple Input Multiple Output MIMO, advanced modulation schemes 2. QAM, and LTE in the Unlicensed 5. GHz band, T Mobile is in an excellent position to become the first all LTE mobile carrier in the United States which will allow them to deliver voice and data more efficiently. Verizon Wireless takes second. The purpose of this webpage is to provide information a majority are secret or are hard to find on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It will mainly concentrate on. Welcome to the new age of unlimited data in the U. S. In February, Verizon and ATT brought back their unlimited plans, and the impact on their mobile data services. ATT, Sprint, TMobile, and Verizon PCWorlds exclusive performance tests reveal which 4G network delivers the fastest data speeds. Second place Verizon Wireless, the first LTE carrier in the U. S., has a Speed Score of 2. Over the past year, Verizon has been doing a lot of work around network densification, installing thousands of small cells in urban and suburban areas, as well as many commercial venues. Utilizing LTE Advanced technologies like Three Channel Carrier Aggregation, Verizon has been able to maintain solid performance in areas of high traffic, though a drop in performance has been seen since Verizon launched Unlimited. To fortify network performance, Verizon has started refarming legacy spectrum more aggressively. One example is the New York City market, where Verizon has recently started sunsetting their legacy 3. G network in the 1. MHz band and repurposing the entire 1. MHz block for LTE operation. Verizon is already the fastest carrier in New York City and this will only further improve their LTE performance in the months to come. AT T comes in third. AT T was one of the first carriers to adopt LTE in the U. S., but over the past few years the competition has gotten better. Now AT T ranks third with a Speed Score of 2. For the most part, AT T has managed to keep up with the increased consumption and maintain its performance. But a notable drop in performance coincides with the timing of AT Ts expansion of their Unlimited Plan and the introduction of their Unlimited Choice Plan, which caps subscriber speeds at 3 Mbps with unlimited data usage, the impact of which is discussed later in this report. That said, AT Ts network performance has started to improve in the last few months, likely due to their deployment of LTE in the 2. MHz band, 7. 00. MHz supplemental downlink and refarming of existing spectrum assets after the recent GSM sunset. AT T still has a lot of room for incremental capacity gain with rollout of 4x. MIMO, 2. 56. QAM, License Assisted Access LAA and other LTE Advanced Pro features. Sprint finishes in fourth. Though coming in fourth on our rankings for Q1 Q2 2. Speed Score of 1. Sprint made significant improvements compared to the same period last year. Between December 2. June 2. 01. 7 the companys mean download speed on modern devices increased 2. Sprint is well positioned for even more improvement moving forward given its massive 2. GHz spectrum portfolio. Significantly lower levels of network budget compared to other carriers, low cell site density and a thin fallback LTE layer in the 8. MHz and 1. 90. 0MHz bands created real challenges for Sprint this year. They responded with an impressive bout of creative problem solving during the past year leading to the deployment of small cells, mini macros and relay solutions. These moves did improve Sprints network performance, but the proliferation of smartphones capable of aggregating multiple component carriers, HPUE High Performance User Equipment and 4 branch antenna diversity could be viewed as the forgotten heroes in Sprints success adding much needed efficiency. Sprint still has a lot of room for improvement, and a lot of opportunities for tapping into its treasure trove of 2. GHz spectrum. Performance on popular devices. Even when comparing the performance on two popular modern phones, our national rankings hold. We received test results from 2. Apple i. Phone 7 devices and 1. Samsung Galaxy S7 devices during Q1 Q2 2. Carrier rankings remain the same, but the Speed Scores on these newer devices are higher, because they are capable of aggregating three component carriers, which improves peak and average speeds. The performance of the Samsung Galaxy S7 improves even further on T Mobiles network, as both the device and the network have advanced LTE features enabled such as higher order modulation and 4 Layer MIMO. Speed Score. When analyzing fastest carriers, we consider all carriers with 3 or more of total test samples in the market for the period. We then determine the fastest carrier using Speed Score which incorporates a measure of each providers download and upload speed to rank network speed performance 9. Speed Score is attributed to download speed and the remaining 1. The Speed Score uses a modified trimean to demonstrate the download and upload speeds that are available across a providers network. We take speeds from the 1. We place the most emphasis on the download speeds and median speeds as those represent what most network providers customers will experience on a day to day basis.
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