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Are HSPA+/LTE speeds really that "bad" generally? My HSPA+ phone typically gets 8-10Mbps down and roughly 50ms ping, and I've been led to believe that LTE here (the US) is considerably faster.


HSPA+ tends to have latency degrade far faster when you get farther from a tower than LTE, that's the big difference between the two.

LTE speeds are quite good on Verizon[1]. I get around 2-4MB/s normally. LTE pings for me are 50-100ms depending on where I am.

[1]Verizon uses the 700mhz LTE band.


I use AT&T LTE in New York City, which from my research back in the fall was at the very top available in the US. Although I got 23 Mbps once, it is typically around 10 Mbps.




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