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(TNS) – Speedtest, the popular app to check the frenzy of a cellular or Wi-Fi Internet connection, can be found on many smartphones. This makes it perfect for taking the pulse of LTE mobile data networks. Ookla, who is developing the app, is coming out with his 2018 survey on cell speeds.
LTE continues to expand and improve before the launch of 5G data services late in the year or early next year. More than 2.8 million users performed nearly 12.5 million tests, which allowed Ookla to collect nearly 524 million data points.
The result: the average download speed in the US on LTE networks was 27.33 Mbps, an increase of 20.4% over the same period in 2017. The average download speed was 8, 63 Mbps, a disappointing increase of 1.4%.
Nationally, T-Mobile was the fastest carrier. Ookla says that the speed score is "a measure of the download and download speed of each provider to rank the speed performance of the network." Verizon was second at 26.02, AT & T third at 22.17 and Sprint last at 20.38. However, Ookla points out that Sprint has seen the biggest performance improvement over last year.
In Texas, Plano was the city with the fastest LTE speeds, while Laredo arrived last – and was also national. Houston was in fifth place in the state, but was very far in the ranking of all cities.
In Texas, T-Mobile was the fastest carrier (and the fastest in Houston, too). Overall, speeds in Texas were 24.42 Mbps in download and 8.01 Mbps in download
The fastest city in the country was Minneapolis with an average download speed of 44.92 Mbps and 14.26 Mbps download.
Ookla belongs to Ziff-Davis, who also owns PCMag. This venerable online computer publication also studies cell speeds in the United States each year and you can read this year's test in Houston on HoustonChronicle.com
Update: The makers of the Open Signal application , which uses a different methodology than Ookla, has its own report for US LTE speeds. T-Mobile has the highest score nationally, and links to download speeds and availability with Verizon in Houston. T-Mobile is leading for download speed, while AT & T is gaining here for low latency.
© 2018 Houston Chronicle Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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