lundi 5 mai 2014

Introducing Fastest Mobile Networks 2014

A lire sur: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2457155,00.asp


Fastest Mobile Network 2014

It's a big country, and we could use your help covering it. For the fifth year, we're starting our engines on Fastest Mobile Networks, the nation's biggest journalistic test of 3G and 4G networks. This year, we've signed up some powerful partners, and we're hoping you'll join in, too.
Fastest Mobile Networks tests AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon data network performance in 30 major cities nationwide. That covers a lot of the country, but not all of it. So this year we're working with network testing firm Sensorly and a range of top tech websites (Chipchick.comExtremetech.comGeardiary.comGeek.com,Phonescoop.comSlashgear.com,  AndroidCommunity.comAndroidAndMe.com,Phonedog.comTmonews.com and TodaysiPhone.com) to distribute our new speed test app. Run tests during the month of May, and we'll all report on the results.
Download Sensorly's speed test app for Android and for iOS to report speeds in your neck of the woods, and we'll include the results in our story! 
Crowdsourcing offers the ability to check real-life speeds all over the country on a wide range of devices. But we're still going on the road. That's because drive testing has its unique strengths, too.
Fastest Mobile Network 2014 Bug
In the back of each of our three Ford C-Max cars, we'll have seven LG G2 phones tuned to each of the four LTE networks plus the Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T 3G networks. We'll also have an eighth LG phone for the Verizon 3G network. All the phones will run custom speed test software all day. That lets us focus on network performance, eliminating the variables of phone type, time, and location as we compare the networks.
Why the LG G2? We needed a phone that can hit all of the carriers' new, high-speed networks - whether it's the 20+20 LTE networks that T-Mobile and Verizon have set up, or Sprint's new tri-band "Spark" network. The LG G2 will show off everything the carriers have to offer.
In mid-June, we and our partners will report on the results of both our drive testing and your own testing.
Our drivers will be Tweeting where they go and what they see at @pcmphones. If you're in one of our 30 cities, tweet them and tell them where to go, what to eat, or what to see in your home town. They'll try to stop by and include it in their routes.
Where We're Driving
Our 30 cities divide the country into six regions:
  • Northeast: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.
  • Southeast: Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Miami
  • North Central: Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City
  • South Central: Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, and Austin
  • Northwest: Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle
  • Southwest: Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, and San Diego
We'll also take some measurements on the road between the cities, to try to get a gauge of rural network performance. Here's where we'll be over the next week:
  • May 1: Boston, Denver and Detroit
  • May 3: Chicago and New York
  • May 4: Salt Lake City
  • May 5: Indianapolis and Philadelphia
  • May 6: Las Vegas

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