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Minneapolis Said to Have Fastest Average LTE Speeds in United States

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Minneapolis has the fastest average LTE speeds of all major cities in the United States, according to a recent study conducted by OpenSignal.

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OpenSignal found that the average LTE download connection in Minneapolis was 21.5 Mbps, almost twice as fast as the 11.65 Mbps average it measured in Las Vegas, which was the slowest among the 35 cities it tracked.

Four out of the five fastest cities were in the Midwest region, with Minneapolis joined by Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis in the rankings.

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OpenSignal said 29 of the 35 cities exceeded the national LTE download average of 13.98 Mbps. When compared to global speeds, though, only 14 cities had 4G speeds higher than the worldwide LTE download average of 16.6 Mbps.

OpenSignal collected its data from millions of smartphones with its app installed under conditions of normal usage.

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Mattsasa Avatar
117 months ago
Hell yea!! Minneapolis represent!!

I had no idea I was this spoiled!
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Andres Cantu Avatar
117 months ago
Still such a low average compared to other countries.
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Craiguyver Avatar
117 months ago
Cincinatti...
Colombus...

What, were fifth graders in charge of spelling on this one??!!
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
OldSchoolMacGuy Avatar
117 months ago
Minneapolis is awesome.

We also have the fastest home internet on the planet. 10Gbps to the home fiber with USI.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
b11051973 Avatar
117 months ago
The map of the US used in the story is T-Mobile's color. Let me say that TM sucks in Minneapolis, and MN in general, in my opinion. I tried them late 2016 for like 2-3 months and it was pathetically slow. I'd try to download a podcast at work and it would take 20 minutes, and I'm not exaggerating.

I'm on AT&T again now, and was on Verizon before my T-Mobile experiment. AT&T and Verizon are both pretty great.
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117 months ago
I used to work in St. Paul — don’t have any numbers, but I never felt a slowdown on T-Mo, at least in my experience. A coworker on Sprint had issues in St. Paul all the time though...
It's Sprint what do you expect...lol.
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