U.S. 3G broadband comparison crowns a surprise winner … Sprint In December, Gizmodo did its “Definitive coast-to-coast 3G data test” in which it compared the mobile broadband performance of Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint in eight cities across the U.S. and then published the results, which came up with a surprise winner: Sprint. Gizmodo used comparable USB dongles from the big three U.S. cellular carriers to measure bandwidth in eight cities: * New York * Boston * Chicago * San Francisco bay area * Seattle * Austin * Portland * Raleigh-Durham As the chart below shows, Sprint had the best download bandwidth in four of the eight cities and was highly competitive in the other four. In terms of national average, Sprint was the clear winner, with just under 1.5 Mbps average while AT&T and Verizon averaged about 1.2 Mbps.
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