Ask anybody that does serious gaming, or even casuals that have had to go through the nightmare that video chats are on a high-latency connection. Suddenly, all that bandwidth becomes entirely redundant, as latency is the time it takes for any one packet (or a bunch of them) to make the trek between the source and the target, which is what really counts in a real time environment. FierceWireless, teaming up with OpenSignal (an app), have taken to the task of compiling a quick latency comparison between what it calls Tier 1 carriers – AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile – and their respective networks.
Looking at the scores, T-Mobile, the smallest of the contestants, actually ends at the top, across its myriad of 3G and 4G LTE networks. As you can see, the carriers have been grouped in two groups of two, as they rely on different technologies, though we could simplify (dangerous) things by saying that UMTS, HSPA, HSPAP, eHRPD and UMTS are essentially all technical standards based on 3G networks. Now that we've exhausted the confusing technical abbreviations, it's to time feast our eyes on the results below.
Some of you may feel like disregarding data such as this, but it's more than likely that latency will play an increasingly important role in your overall mobile experience as we go ahead.
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