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I can confirm the data from the previous posters. I live in the San Francisco area, and Verizon is excellent there.
But I am in Seattle today, and I have given up trying to use my phone (Samsung Galaxy S4), as a hotspot
or tethered device.
I have switched to my AT&T Blackberry instead. Much, much faster.
I got download speeds of .25 Mbps on Verizon! This is ridiculous and close to unusable for modern needs.
Even just trying to do Google searches directly on the phone did not work.
I could not reach Google!
Seriously?
My signal meter says 4G with 2 to 4 bars depending on my location downtown.
So what.
My colleague in the meeting I am in had a Verizon Mifi hotspot, and his connections were no better.
I travel extensively around the US, and it has been my recent impression that Verizon's network is much
slower than it used to be in general.
I compare my speeds on Verizon vs. AT&T commonly, and at my home in Marin County, north of San Francisco,
Verizon wins handily with speeds in excess of 20 Mbps, but elsewhere the story is quite different.
AT&T often seems to be better to me.
Here in Seattle, there is no contest. AT&T is 10 times faster, as measured by the speed test available at Megapath.