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Best LTE coverage in NYC?
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Your only other choice is Verizon--though I believe they are about equal with AT&T in NYC.
T-mobile and Sprint are less consistent with lower average speeds at this point.
All the carriers are pouring money into their LTE networks right now--so I'd also suggest you get an LTE device.
T-mobile and Sprint are less consistent with lower average speeds at this point.
All the carriers are pouring money into their LTE networks right now--so I'd also suggest you get an LTE device.
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I'm asking knowing that I'll be ordering a 5S next week and was trying to figure out if I should stick with AT&T or switch and I guess the consensus is stick with AT&T.
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How is the lte service on the subway? 4G is unusable for me, which isn't that big of a deal but would be nice to have. Any idea about westchester? I have to take the MNR Hudson line for work a lot and spotty coverage there.
I use AT&T and my experience with their LTE in NYC has been pretty good. In most places I get around 20 down/5+ up. I've gotten close to but haven't broken 30. Around the Times Square area where I work, which has been notoriously bad for AT&T and my experiences with 3g were craptacular, I've been getting 6-7 download speeds consistently so I've been pretty happy there relatively speaking.
I've been surprised to get calls and texts in the subway stations around work so I guess that's good enough as well.
I've been surprised to get calls and texts in the subway stations around work so I guess that's good enough as well.
Stay away from Verizon lte in NYC!!!! Unless you care more about voice than data
I switched out of Verizon because my data would never work. Not just mind but anyone with Verizon lte. Way too spotty and tons of capacity issues. Not one complaint about AT&T LTE
Their 4G is slower but very rare you'll fall over to 4G. Unlike Verizon where you go indoors and LTE is one bar and unusable.
I switched out of Verizon because my data would never work. Not just mind but anyone with Verizon lte. Way too spotty and tons of capacity issues. Not one complaint about AT&T LTE
Their 4G is slower but very rare you'll fall over to 4G. Unlike Verizon where you go indoors and LTE is one bar and unusable.
I have used Verizon, Sprint and now T-Mobile and I can say that Verizon works the best in all boro's but Manhattan. T-Mobile has LTE in all places in NYC and is not spotty. Sprint is spotty because they haven't finished upgrading.
My gf who uses AT&T has great LTE service but in Manhattan, there is issues of it being slow due to capacity. Depends on where you will use it the most, it's either Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.
As AutoUnion39 says all the time, T-Mobile is all 2G/Edge outside of big cities. It's not all edge/2G but you will notice it more on T-Mobile while traveling compared to AT&T/Verizon.
My gf who uses AT&T has great LTE service but in Manhattan, there is issues of it being slow due to capacity. Depends on where you will use it the most, it's either Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.
As AutoUnion39 says all the time, T-Mobile is all 2G/Edge outside of big cities. It's not all edge/2G but you will notice it more on T-Mobile while traveling compared to AT&T/Verizon.
I was just in NYC over the long weekend, as stated above T-Mobile was a bit spotty in Manhattan and the only time I got "real" LTE speeds was in Time Square, I didn't do a speed test b/c it would just kill my daily data limit of 200 MB.
Real = 60+ Mbps (Like home on Rogers)
1) Wall Street
2) Brooklyn
3) Chinatown Manhattan
4) Grand Central
5) Rogers - Toronto Canada
Real = 60+ Mbps (Like home on Rogers)
1) Wall Street
2) Brooklyn
3) Chinatown Manhattan
4) Grand Central
5) Rogers - Toronto Canada
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