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US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds
alphadogg writes: The U.S. has fallen to No. 55 in LTE performance as speeds rise rapidly in countries that have leapfrogged some early adopters of the popular cellular system. The average download speed on U.S. 4G networks inched up to 10Mbps (bits per second) in the June-August quarter, according to research company OpenSignal. That was an improvement from 9Mbps in the previous quarter, but the country's global ranking fell from 43rd as users in other countries enjoyed much larger gains.
In your face, Indonesia!
55!
USA is near the top in LTE penetration. It's easy to have high speeds when you've got the tower to yourself...
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Now those other 54 countries will be able to upload their selfies to Facebook faster than me! 10Mbps isn't enough!
I don't get it, why is gramps boasting about not being able to drive 15 miles below the speed limit? Boomers are dumbf.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
But, hey, we are still in the top 1/3 out of ALL countries in the world...
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I keep saying this, but a small European Country having really good stats, isn't the same as the USA having mediocre stats. Have you seen the size of the US vs Europe?
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However, since I don't have a list of countries that beat the US, my assumption is that at least some of them are european.
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I'm sure the cost to invest in other countries is much lower, in the US it is practically impossible to honestly backhaul fiber to tower sites and install the equipment.
#1 the land is too expensive, and leasing tower sites which already exist are far out of budget for anyone to start.
#2 the right of ways that are supposed to exist do not, this prevents you from running your own cables. there is always talk of dark fiber but I can't find anywhere to buy a single mode fiber line from point a to point b and a few hundred miles costs thousands a month for a 100mbps connection.
#3 there are no sources of clear and honest funding available to those wishing to do something, a marketing plan is more important than proof you can do the work.
#4 it is difficult to find english vendors of 4g equipment because there are huge conglomerates as the only purchasers in the states.
#5 you can't honestly run new fiber lines to public exchange centers anymore, and the cost from those there is tremendous.
All in all there are a couple huge behemoths, and if you don't work for them then you're fucked. It's funny that ATT built unix which is supposed to be modular and interworking, then structured their business as a monolith.
They are totally willing to let you start your own thing and steal all of your ideas though, I guess then you are supposed to "get it back" later or something?
For coverage we are actually doing pretty well.
For speed it's just miserable.
Combine the two, the obvious answer is poor investment by the carriers. They have plenty of towers, they're putting crappy sub-par equipment on them.
So the US has a high penetration, but medium speeds. Average speed doesn't include zero availability.
Frankly I'd rather have 10 MB/S in 80% of the country than 0 MB/S in 50% of the country, and 17 MB/S in another 50% of the country. This is exactly the case for Italy. Averaging them doesn't account for going to 3g speeds or worse, which sucks.
10Mbps = megabits per second, NOT bits per second.
to make the butt-hurt Americans with the large, sensitive egos, to come out. We can't have any post like this here, without you crawling out. It must be difficult to always feel you have to be the best at everything, and everytime it's clear that you're far from, you have to play things down.
Here in Canada, I am getting 27.7 Mbps down and 22 Mbps UP on Rogers on LTE and then there are areas of the city with LTE-Advanced.
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In the dallas fort worth airport hyatt many brands of phones get no reception at all. it's a joke.
It's annoying to go from the "modern world" back to the 1980s when you travel about 10 miles.
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If #1-54 have average LTE speeds of 11 Mbps, then 10 Mbps is not that bad.
If #1-54 have average LTE speeds of 90 Mbps, then 10 Mbps sucks.
Rank on an arbitrary list is meaningless. If you want to compare against a distribution, compare to the distribution itself. Not some arbitrary index. The distribution is linked in TFA and is vastly more informative than TFA or TFS. In fact it's one of the best interactive data presentations I've ever seen. It should've been linked as TFA, not some article talking about it.
Most of the countries are clustered between 8-18 Mbps. #43 (the previous U.S. rank) is 13 Mbps. If the U.S. were to increase its LTE speed by 50% to 15 Mbps it would jump to #28. And if it were to double its speed to 20 Mbps, it would jump to #12.
There is no 4G anything in the United States. No LTE deployments in the US meet the definition of 4G as accepted by ITU.
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