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Ookla: T-Mobile is Fastest Mobile Internet Carrier in USA, Minneapolis is Speediest City

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 23 2018, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the edging-out-Ft.-Wayne dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

Mobile internet speeds are blazing fast these days thanks to 4G LTE, and they are about to get even faster with the impending roll-out of 5G. Not all carriers are created equally, however. In a new study by Ookla -- of Speedtest.net fame -- it is discovered that T-Mobile offers the fastest mobile internet overall in the USA. As you can expect, Sprint is dead last.

Ookla didn't just rank carriers, but cities too. After all, speed can vary by location since performance can be impacted by number of towers, terrain, and other factors. Shockingly, the overall fastest city in the USA is not New York or Los Angeles, but Minneapolis -- located in the cold state of Minnesota.

"While you may expect a bustling coastal city or carrier's headquarters to take first prize for fastest city out of the 100 studied (by population), it was Minneapolis that was awarded the title thanks to having the fastest mean download speed over mobile. This year, the twin cities edged out Fort Wayne to take the number one and two spots, followed by San Francisco and Irvine surpassing Atlanta and Pittsburg in the fourth and fifth place spots,"says Ookla.

Source: https://betanews.com/2018/07/18/tmobile-carrier-fast-usa/

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 23 2018, @03:37PM (3 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday July 23 2018, @03:37PM (#711269) Homepage Journal

    When I had 3G for my first-gen iPad, my plan included 2 GB per month.

    When I first saw 4G advertised it was all about how incredibly fast it was - and now included 4 GB per month!

    Dude. Get A Grip.

    I happen to have T-Mobile and am very happy with it. I have their $$$ business plan which has no data cap. But what kind of data caps do the plebes have?

    I no longer need to bother going around to WiFi spots. I just enable my iToy 7's Personal Hotspot, verify that my MacBook Pro is gonna talk through it then put my iToy back in my pocket.

    I even do this when riding the bus or train. It mostly works well but the connection gets flaky each time I'm handed off to a new cell tower.

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  • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Monday July 23 2018, @05:41PM

    by insanumingenium (4824) on Monday July 23 2018, @05:41PM (#711339) Journal

    No need to even take your iToy out of your pocket, you can activate the hotspot directly from your MBP, as long as you have BT and convergence (or whatever the stupid feature is called) on.

  • (Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:08AM (1 child)

    by legont (4179) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @02:08AM (#711514)

    I have t-mobile. My fast data is limited to 10G which is enough. However, hotspot data is limited to 2G and drops to real slow after that. I called and I asked and was told no - no plan to get me more. So, could you share links to your plan?

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