Verizon 4G Now Live, Area Speed Tests In
Verizon’s next-generation 4G LTE network went live yesterday, and for those of you wonder, yes. It is fast. We’ve just been forwarded some initial speed test results for the Washington DC metro area (just a hop, skip and a jump from our Baltimore home) and the numbers put Sprint’s WiMAX network to shame. The highest downlink speed achieved was 10.6 Mbps, while the lowest was 6.59Mbps. Compare that to Sprint’s highest of 2.62Mbps, while the lowest is hard to determine because it seems their WiMAX 4G coverage was a bit more sparse than Verizon’s LTE.
We have yet to verify these results, but rest-assured: we will be doing our own speed tests in the very near future. Too bad there is not a single handset available on the seemingly zippy network until sometime next year. But if you are craving some quick mobile broadband, with these results as any indication you may want to invest in one of Verizon’s two 4G modem devices.