PC World Completes 13-City Test of 3G Wireless Performance
Feb 24, 2010 cellular, motorola, phones, verizon
PC World will reputation the full results of its 3G radio testing carried out this winter in an issuance to smasher newsstands in early March. The feature clause was published today at the magazine’s Web internet site, PCWorld.com.
The most dramatic improvements in hurrying and dependability since the last daily round of examination in leaping 2009 belong to AT&T. AT&T, which earned PC World’s lowest score last spring for download speeds and dependability, pumped out download speeds that were 67% faster than any other subject radio carrier in the latest testing.
“AT&T’s network has undergone a drastic makeover in the last eight months, and it’s reflected in our test results. In the 13 cities in which we tested, we found AT&T’s average download speeds increased by more than 80%,” said PC World Senior Editor Mark Arthur Seymour Sullivan.
AT&T’s download speeds tripled in New York City in PC World’s latest tests, compared to the results of an identical study conducted by PC World cobbler’s last spring. In San Francisco, AT&T download speeds were 40% faster. The carrier’s mesh has been the butt of sharp criticism from iPhone users in both cities.
The AT&T network’s reliability improved drastically as fountainhead: Last spring, PC World testers got a usable broadband connexion with AT&T only 68% of the metre. In the latest tests, testers connected to AT&T successfully in 94% of their attempts.
Verizon Wireless, which performed topper all-around in cobbler’s last spring’s 3G network testing, and Sprint, a close second, both continue to perform fountainhead, according to the recent study. The tests found that Sprint’s network delivered download speeds nearly identical to those measured ogdoad months ago in the 13 run cities, piece Verizon’s download speeds decreased by 8% on average.
Like AT&T, Sprint and Verizon face an step-up in broadband-hungry smartphones relying on their networks. Both companies ar workings to rising slope their networks to sports meeting the demand, but Verizon whitethorn be having more trouble holding up, Arthur Seymour Sullivan says in the reputation. Nevertheless, both networks’ reliability (the likeliness that a substance abuser tin can connect to the Net at a reasonable hurrying) increased in the most recent tests compared to results from last leaping.
PC World included T-Mobile River in its tests for the first base time this wintertime. Its download speeds were competitive with those of Sprint and Verizon in the tests in most major cities.
Throughout Dec and January, PC World’s examination partner, Novarum Inc., tested the download speeds, upload speeds and network dependableness of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile River and Verizon 3G networks from 20 locations in each of 13 U.S. cities. Using laptops running genus Ixia ixChariot testing software and smartphones run the Internet-based Extreme Labs mobile broadband carrying out test, Novarum performed more than 10,000 tests in total.
PC World hopes to provide its readers with actionable information for selecting and purchasing radio services and devices, on which Americans spent $4.8 1000000000 cobbler’s last year. The PC World tests ar consumers’ only germ for independent carrying out examination of 3G radio services exploitation manufacture standard testing software.
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