Ookla: AT&T iPhone 4 Faster than Verizon in 3G Tests
Ookla: AT&T iPhone 4 Faster than Verizon in 3G Tests
Posted 02/18/2011 at 7:22am
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AT&T lost its exclusivity grip on the on the iPhone 4 when Verizon started carrying the Apple device earlier this month, but if it comes as any consolation, the wireless carrier won Ookla's head-to-head broadband tests, Wired reports. You may recognize Ookla as the team behind Speedtest.net, an online broadband metric. Ookla recently turned its attention to the iPhone 4 by compiling data from iPhone users who downloaded and ran the mobile version of Speedtest.
The average download speed on AT&T, as represented by 43,000 AT&T iPhone 4 owners, was 1,769Kbps and the average upload speed was 730Kbps. The former is twice as fast as was reported by Verizon's 14,000 customers, whose average download speed was 848Kbps (average upload was 506Kbps).
"I think that's the story I expected to see," said Doug Sutties, co-founder of Ookla. "Verizon has never talked up their speed, but they always talk up their coverage and reliability. I think the story is quality versus throughput. What are you after?"
Good question, and we'll pass it on to you. Which do you value more? Sound off in the comments section below!
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DJSPIN80
February 21, 2011 at 7:11am
That's so awesome, I'm glad AT&T's faster! Yay for poor coverage and dropped calls!
violian
February 18, 2011 at 11:38am
Yes, but how fast is the speed when you're out of coverage? Zero Kbps.
stopit
February 18, 2011 at 9:44am
I will take coverage and access over speed any day
However, the AT&T iPhone sometimes could not complete tests because it did not have a connection, whereas the Verizon iPhone successfully completed every test. In short, I found the Verizon iPhone to be slower with network transfers but more reliable with coverage. Reviewers at other publications had the same results.
Razicus
February 18, 2011 at 8:17am
If you can't use the speed because you don't have coverage, what good is it?
DogPatch1149
February 18, 2011 at 8:04am
Faster with a lot less 3G coverage, or slower with a lot more 3G coverage...WGARA? It's still an Apple product, and that alone is reason enough for me not to care.
Ledoubleu
February 18, 2011 at 7:43am
Actually what made this story interesting to me is that when I saw the name Ookla I wanted to watch some Thundar the Barbarian cartoons.
cj100570
February 18, 2011 at 7:59am
Lol. Me too! Now I gotta run off and see if I can find it to download. As for the story itself, tell us something we didn't already know. CDMA has been slower than GSM since Moses parted the sea.
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