Sounds good until you hit 2 gb and they start to slow
down your data speed and/or your charged more for overages.
Rich
--- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, Bill Boulware <bill.boulware@...> wrote:
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> http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/1cWv3pZzp8k/
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> Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: Which Carrier’s iPhone
> 4S Will Be the Fastest? [MAP] via Mashable! by Charlie White on 10/9/11
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> Want to look before you leap into an iPhone 4S? OpenSignalMaps used
> 46,600 speed tests from real-world users (ironically, using an Android
> app) to find out where carriers are bringing the top speed, and where
> they’re lagging behind the others.
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> As you can see in the map above, the iPhone 4S on AT&T will be the
> speediest in 31 states in the U.S., with Verizon coming in a distant
> second in 6 states. Sprint didn’t win any states at all. Those other
> greyed-out states didn’t gather enough data for reliable results.
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> The researchers at OpenSignalMaps emphasize this doesn’t mean AT&T’s
> network is the overall fastest, but that the iPhone 4S will perform
> faster on that network (in certain states) than on the other two. Also
> keep in mind â€" this data doesn’t take into account the frequency of
> dropped calls.
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> Why did AT&T win this speed race? The company recently upgraded its
> HSPA network to HSPA+, which has a faster theoretical upload and
> download speed:
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> According to OpenSignalMaps’ crowdsourced results, that translates into
> a real-world speed advantage.
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> SEE ALSO: iPhone 4S: 4 Reasons to Upgrade
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> One of the more useful parts of the OpenSignalMaps interactive page is
> its service plan comparison tool, where you can set its filters on
> which iPhone you’d like, which networks to compare, and amounts of talk
> time, SMS, data and storage you want, and then compare prices.
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> Here, I’ve filtered the lowest-priced iPhone 4S plans, comparing their
> pricing from each of the three carriers. In this example, you get what
> you pay for â€" notice the reported slowest network, Sprint, comes out
> with the lowest monthly price of $69.99:
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> To interactively drill down into the data state-by-state, compare the
> various carriers, their service plans, the resale value of the phones,
> as well as their upgrade and return policies, go to the OpenSignalMaps
> site, where you can sift and filter the data yourself to find out
> exactly which iPhone 4S is best for you.
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> iPhone 4S
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> The iPhone 4S looks and feels exactly like the iPhone 4.
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> Click here to view this gallery.
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