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Variable in different cities
I have a clear spot and Tmobile Rocket 2.0 and have run similar tests in many cities that both services have 4G coverage. I found many variable results depending on the city. Eg. Cleveland- clear and TMO were averaging 4x1 and 65ms latency. Columbus- clear was averaging high 8s x 1 while Tmo never topped 1.5x .5. Almost as if it was speed limited yet displayed H+ on the service indicator. Same results in Birmingham, AL as Columbus, OH. In all cases, I found that TMO holds its connection while moving in a car where clear consistently drops. Eg using skype while mobile was almost unusable with clear's intermittent coverage. TMO held a connection even though it was slower in speed. Same was true of streaming audio services.
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My experience matches yours, though my estimate is that T-Mo has all of their towers in a given area loaded with HSPA+ firmware, but some of them are still backhauled with T1s and thus are bandwidth-constrained.
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