It's not super-useful to measure the speed of a network nobody is using yet. AT&T gives me 5-6 megabits in a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, in the middle of the afternoon. I'd be very surprised to see T-Mobile, with its limited resources and limited spectrum be able to come close.<p>Which is ultimately why it was a total disaster that the DOJ nixed the ATT/T-Mobile merger. Now you've got two carriers with not enough spectrum versus Verizon that's sitting on a fat 20 MHz nationwide band.
Feels weird defending a competitor, but Samsung has officially announced details of their new phone's US processor choice that conflict with this post. What this company witnessed was probably an engineering sample with different hardware than the eventual shipping version.<p>Makes me wonder about how solid the rest of their information is. Carriers have test labs that can deliver any sort of signal to a phone. So maybe some of the test results are just from an LTE node at a test lab and have nothing to do with that being a launch city. If something isn't announced it may never even see the light of day anyway.