The Daily Reveille reports Verizon is the best wireless carrier in Baton Rouge, with AT&T a close second, according to a study done by RootMetrics, a Seattle-based data statistic company. T-Mobile and Sprint follow in third and fourth, respectively. Verizon beat AT&T in the texting category, taking an average of only 3.4 seconds to receive a text compared to AT&T’s 4.2 seconds. T-Mobile took 4.8 seconds to receive a message and Sprint took 13.1 seconds. AT&T’s 4G LTE network beat Verizon in terms of average download speed at 12.9 mb/s to Verizon’s 10.9 mb/s, but Verizon had a faster upload speed — 7.6 mb/s to AT&T’s 5.5 mb/s. T-Mobile had download speeds of 3.5 mb/s and upload speeds of 1.4 mb/s. Sprint, with no LTE network in Baton Rouge, had download and upload speeds of 0.4 mb/s. The study also showed AT&T and Verizon were the most reliable networks for data delivery in Baton Rouge. To read more about the study, click here.
Verizon tops study on wireless carriers in B.R.
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