Ookla, the company behind Speedtest.net was able to include the Verizon iPhone 4 in its weekly data dumps for the first time, and with quite a large sample, AT&T's 3G network turned out more than twice faster in download speeds.
This shouldn't come as a big surprise, considering Verizon's EV-DO Rev. A maxes out at 3Mbits, whereas AT&T has deployed HSPA+ to almost all of its network already, maxing out at 14.4Mbps (in theory), which helps its 3G devices download speeds as well. Plus, the results largely coincide with our own data speed testing on the two iPhone 4s we did recently.
The issue, though, is usually not speed, but coverage and network load, so now that you have excellent smartphone offerings on both carriers, it all depends how well you are covered where you live or travel by one carrier or the other, or whether their cell phone towers are enough to handle the pressure in the city you live in. We are including screenshots of the carriers' own current data coverage maps for reference purposes below.
Daniel, a devoted tech writer at PhoneArena since 2010, has been engrossed in mobile technology since the Windows Mobile era. His expertise spans mobile hardware, software, and carrier networks, and he's keenly interested in the future of digital health, car connectivity, and 5G. Beyond his professional pursuits, Daniel finds balance in travel, reading, and exploring new tech innovations, while contemplating the ethical and privacy implications of our digital future.
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