Verizon 4G LTE ‘blows away’ Sprint’s WiMAX in 1,000 speed tests

Never seen anything so untrue. Those speed are Sprint’s EVDO-REV A, not WIMAX.

aaawww shucks

Did you expect anything less!!

I live in nyc and average about 4mb per sec. Its def not 9 but def not just 1mb either.

hmmm well why is my wimax at 5 mbps on the lower end with brust up to 12 mbps on the high end

whoever conducted this “study” is either lying or an idiot. The posted speeds up there for the Evo are 3G speeds. I just did some 3G speed tests and they’re inline with what’s posted. My 4G speed tests however, are averaging 8mbbs down and 1 up here in Brooklyn. My guess is this dumbass “researcher” figured the evo and thunderbolt work the same way and just automatically connect to 4G, so the moron never turned on 4G on the evo.

Depends where they tested.

On my Sprint Android phone 3G speeds will vary between 0.23 ~ 1.07 Mbps down and 0.23 ~ 0.99 Mbps up. This is obviously depending on cell site congestion and a problem that Sprint needs to address as I’ve found these slower speeds in many areas.

The testers in this article tested 1,000 times but made no mention where in NYC.

For example, had they tested Sprint 3G in the Parkchester section of the Bronx and did the same tests in the Whitestone section of Queens they would have noted considerable speed differences. Yes, I would know, I did these tests myself.

BGR should just archive this news release, it is a huge disservice to people that might not understand why new technology is better than old technology even though its less than a year from release dates, (I’m being sincere, people make real decisions off this kind of stuff). I feel sorry for the investors’ that listen to BTIG. I’d love to see if BTIG has Verizon as a client. Mr. Piecyk and team should of waited for the Nexus S to come to Sprint later this month before conducting his test.

This is quite interesting since I have 4G where I live (one of the initial markets to launch) and consistently get 5-6 Mbps down with peaks up to 8-9 Mbps.

Those are sprint 3g speeds… how much did verizon pay you guys for this article?

> Sprint is no longer the “4G king,” BTIG Research analyst

Huh?

Sprint’s 4G was just as slow BEFORE you tested it… as after.

Only BGR and BTIG didn’t know about the very slow speeds.

Any Sprint 4G user could have told you that, long ago.

Biased, utter non-sense, BS.

I wonder why there is no response from the author for any of the comments

this is the BS test thats floating all over the net? as most people think that the author of the review & test was using sprints 3g service & not 4G! why do people think this? well most youtube videos showing sprints wimax show download speeds of 8 to 12mbps. also they never seem to mention the fifference between a capped data service and an unlimited data service, would you rather download at 25mps with only 5gigs to use? and only have that speed for only about 4 month’s because after they release more 4G phones & get more customers using there 4G towers the speeds will come down to “real world” speeds! about 8 to 12mbps. or would you rather have Unlimited Data at 8 to 12mbps downloading all you want hotspotting, using it to watch mobile movies & video chat without having to worry that that faster download speeds will only lead you to your data cap faster than ever, sprint has an average of 8 to 12 mbps and that is with over four 4G phones & over 80% of there customers using there 4G services, verizon on the other hand has only a couple of thousand people using there LTE towers so far and when it starts to get crowded with users youll see those speeds drop to around 8megs. and then itll be to late because your stuck with a 5 gig cap that will be reached in only 10 days, then anything extra will be overage charges. dont let them fool you, do some research and dont throw your money away because you can think and let them know your not stupid.

Challenge accepted. I was in Manhattan (57th street to be exact), and had a Verizon LTE USB card and a Sprint Overdrive. Both into the same laptop. Both cards gave me almost the same data rates: 5M down, 1.5 up. So I am going to throw the BS flag on you.

I could care less who is tops, but lets get our data at least close, mmmm-k?

I don’t think the Sprint numbers are even remotely right having informally tested a Clear iSpot, Sprint Overdrive and Evo 4G in the same building in midtown and getting much better results on all devices. I’m on a Verizon 4G LTE Hotspot now and it is much faster than all the other previous devices but not even getting 1Mb in Midtown NYC on Sprint 4G?

I remember WiMax here in Canada in 2002, its was slow, couldn’t connect properly and always dropped data sessions. I don’t know why this dinosaur is still up on the market; and add insult, it is being branded as 4G. HSDPA can beat it, let alone HSPA or HSPA+, and they aren’t even 4G. WiMax is part of Qualcomm’s 3/4GPP2, a competitor to GSM’s and the ITU’s 3/4GPP standard. Even Qualcomm decided to give up on its own Wimax, pulling its 3GPP2 program in favour of following GSM standards and collection and developing royalties and technologies within the GSM framework (GSMA standards include, GSM/GRPS/EDGE, UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA/HSPA+, and LTE. Although UMTS (current 3G, more commonly known as HSDPA/HSPA or WCDMA [those are data upgrades to UMTS sort of like EDGE is to GSM]) is a different technology than GSM, it still belongs to the GSM family. Hence the SIM card and global interoperability. GSMA is just an international standard meant to aid in global interoperability and coverage and make a path for technological upgrades on an international standard.

b******t. 
We got 3.5down and 1.1 up avg on sprint 4g evo.