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Carrier T-Mobile 3G/4G LTE iPhone Speed tests

Pinkstiletto66 said:
Oh okay. Much clearer to me now. With that said shouldn't the unlocked phones being made presently be equipped with the same internals as Tmobiles IPhone, because in a nutshell it seems getting the Tmobile iphone would be better. Question though, would it work in reverse, lets say I didnt like Tmobile and wanted to go to Att would my Tmobile Iphone work perfectly?
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Some of the Apple stores still have the old unlocked model in stock. When I went to buy mine I asked for the T-Mobile one but the guy said why not just get the unlocked one since they're the same. Took it home and saw a lot of Edge and looked at the back of the box and noticed it was the old unlocked model. Took it back the next day and exchanged for the T-Mobile model.

It works in reverse. The current T-Mobile model supports all the bands that are needed to run 4G and LTE on AT&T. Once the current crop of AT&T iPhones run out, the ones sold at AT&T will also be the new one that supports T-Mobile's AWS bands.
 
SoIsays said:
Is this inside a building or outdoors? In my concrete office, my verizon 4S gets the "o" signal and punishes me with less than 28.8kbps telephone modem speeds.
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Those were indoor. I did some outdoor tests a few days ago and they are even better. Gonna post in a second.

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McBeresford said:
I know it doesn't show speed, but it does show tmobile has turned on their LTE in the suburbs of Chicago!! Was getting about 14 down.
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Lets hope they raise that if not there is no reason for LTE since i am getting 14-15 on the tmobiles HSPA+
 
Hartford ct speeds if anyone wanted them. Not that bad...
 

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Prime85 said:
Lets hope they raise that if not there is no reason for LTE since i am getting 14-15 on the tmobiles HSPA+
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Small latency is the big benefit of LTE. You aren't likely to notice the difference between 10mb/s and 15mb/s on an iPhone. But you will notice the difference when things like a Youtube video loads faster because of less latency.
 
T-Mobile is ALOT better than people give them credit for. At least if you live in a T-Mobile city. Leave that and you are roaming on edge.
 
Even their edge isn't too bad. I've actually used the hotspot on edge and it worked fine for my needs at the time. Emails and web pages load fine for me on edge, whereas when I was on AT&T edge was useless on my 4S. And in some areas where I didn't get any AT&T service, now I get service.
 
Beelzbub said:
Even their edge isn't too bad. I've actually used the hotspot on edge and it worked fine for my needs at the time. Emails and web pages load fine for me on edge, whereas when I was on AT&T edge was useless on my 4S. And in some areas where I didn't get any AT&T service, now I get service.
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The edge speeds vary by location. When I had an unlocked 4S for a few months with them last year I was able to stream pandora, download emails and pretty much anything except stream videos. Those still took a long time. But when I would go back to visit parents in their town it was barely usable. Pandora would skip and even loading basic web pages took a while.
 
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