Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) May 17, 2012
Professionally testing how mobile carriers perform in cities across the country, RootMetrics announced today the latest Kansas City RootScore Report and corresponding RootScore Awards. The latest Kansas City RootScore report analyzes results from 14,657 real-world data, call and text tests on the AT&T, Cricket, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon networks.
What impact did LTE have and what will consumers find?
This is RootMetrics second RootScore Report for Kansas City. At the time of their first visit in August 2011, neither Verizon nor AT&T offered LTE service in the market. Since then, however, AT&T and Verizon have both rolled out LTE in Kansas City. Across the country, RootMetrics is increasingly seeing Verizon and AT&T compete for the claim of fastest data network and RootMetrics compares the LTE performance of Verizon and AT&T whenever possible.
Were increasingly seeing LTE performance both speed and accessibility as the No. 1 issue for consumers considering switching carriers or purchasing a new phone , said Bill Moore, CEO of RootMetrics. Because the carriers are constantly upgrading service and rolling out additional coverage, we deliberately return to cities like Kansas City to reevaluate carrier data performance, along with text and call performance.
As a result of AT&Ts and Verizons LTE upgrades in Kansas City, their data speeds increased significantly. For example, AT&Ts average download speed jumped from 4.1 Mbps in August 2011 to 16.3 Mbps during this round of testing, while their average upload speed improved from 1.5 Mbps to 5.9 Mbps. Verizons average download speed, meanwhile, increased from 1.2 Mbps to 17.1 Mbps. Their average upload speed increased from 1.0 Mbps to a rapid 10.7 Mbps.
Sprint, which led the market last time, actually showed a decrease in its average download speed, slipping from 4.6 Mbps in August to 3.1 Mbps in this round of testing.
While not as dramatic as Verizon and AT&T, T-Mobiles speeds also increased. Their average download speed moved from 2.0 Mbps to 4.3 Mbps and their average upload speed moved from 0.5 Mbps to 1.3 Mbps. RootMetrics also was able to test regional carrier Cricket for the first time in this report and will continue adding regional carriers whenever possible to give consumers the most complete picture of carrier performance in their area.
Which Carrier Ranks First in KC?
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