Run your memory back and you will remember the Verzion showing the 3G coverage map of AT&T to which AT&T said that their service cover 97% of the country. The irony is the AT&T themselves made an advertisement that they do not have coverage beyond 3G and 3G isn’t available everywhere.
FCC releaseda free iPhone app, made by Ookla, to know what difference does 3G makes and how fast your mobile internet is.
Take note of the app disclaimer if you are bothered about your personal information ending up in server of the Feds. For identifying the inefficient and nonexistent access to broadband FCC has put large efforts to examine quality and coverage of mobile broadband by pooling the results.
TJ Luomaby downloading the application ran three sets of tests three times each and checking each time on Wi-Fi, 3G and edge and averaged the results for each network to remove the glitches.
The result of the test was not very good especially for those who live in an area without 3G coverage from AT&T. Taking three parameters; download speed, upload speed and latency the results was formulated. It was found that performance of Wi-Fi was almost double the performance of 3G enabled internets and the speed of the edge was terribly low.
The results can be tabulated as follows-
Network Download
Higher is better Upload
Higher is better Latency
Lower is better
Wi-Fi 4,371kbps 612kbps 741ms
3G 1960kbps 310kbps 1,054ms
Edge 64.3kpbs 54kbps 4,936ms
Release of an app called Mark the Spot for simplifying report of trouble spots was a nice gesture by AT&T and hopefully the reported problematic areas would be shortly catered to. It was surprising not to find the 3G coverage map of AT&T which the company claimed in its advertisement defying Verzion.
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