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iPhone 4S (and iPhone 4) Speed Test: AT&T vs. Verizon
What happens when you take the same phone (almost) on 3 different carriers and have a speed test party? Nothing special, but it does make for a good conversation.
Tonight, I have some screenshots created by a friend of mine. He took the AT&T iPhone 4S, the Sprint iPhone 4S and the Verizon iPhone 4 and ran some quick speed tests. These tests are just that, tests, and should only be taken at face value. This is a very non-scientific method.
Peter lives in the suburbs of Detroit. According to Verizon’s coverage maps, they have 3G blanketing the entire Detroit area. Sprint’s maps and AT&T’s maps show pretty much solid 3G or better coverage as well. Sprint had 5 bars, AT&T a full 4 bars and Verizon with 3 bars when the tests were run. Only the AT&T phone was below 50% battery life during the tests.
My friend wrote:
I was quite astonished by the results of our Speedtest.net test on these phones, all running iOS 5.0.1.
Check their tests out:
- GottaBeMobile: iPhone 4S 3G Speed Test: AT&T vs. Verizon (Midwest)
- GottaBeMobile: iPhone 4S Netflix Streaming: AT&T vs. Verizon
- GottaBeMobile: iPhone 4S Netflix Streaming: AT&T vs Sprint
- GottaBeMobile: iPhone 4S: Verizon vs AT&T Speed Test
Earlier tonight with the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, in a non-LTE market, I got a speed test of 4733kpbs down and 1040kbps up. With my iPhone 4, I can’t get over 3kbps in the same location. Weird how it all works out.
Let’s see some of your Speedtest.net screenshots with different phones and OSes.
Source: ComputerNinja.com (Peter Filias)
Disclaimer: These are not my tests. They were performed by an old friend who ran a competing Dell Axim website back in the day.
Anonymous
12/01/2011 at 9:21 pm
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Guest
12/04/2011 at 7:32 am
Highly doubt Sprint is faster than Verizon in the majority of markets, that’s been shown over and over again. I’ve never seen AT&T hit over 7 Mbps download while I have had them. At best, I’ve seen about 2.5Mbps in any city. But then, I’ve never been to Detroit.
Craig
12/06/2011 at 6:39 am
AT&T, San Francisco suburbs:
Speedtest iPhone 4s
PING 129ms, DOWNLOAD 2.6Mbps, UPLOAD 0.28Mbps
Brad
12/22/2011 at 3:01 pm
Did anyone else notice the tests did nto all test agains the same servers? The at&t test was to a server in Detroit, while the other 2 cities are blured, its clear that they are not detroit..
That test is invalid because they were not all to the same location