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[Q] How strong is signal on the Z3?

Hi guys,
How strong is the cell signal on the z3? Is it strong indoors and outdoors? Also is it good at locking onto signal once you leave an area with no coverage? How is LTE signal strength? If anyone also has any comparison to phones with strong reception like the M8 and iPhone that would be great thanks

sav_uk said:
Hi guys,
How strong is the cell signal on the z3? Is it strong indoors and outdoors? Also is it good at locking onto signal once you leave an area with no coverage? How is LTE signal strength? If anyone also has any comparison to phones with strong reception like the M8 and iPhone that would be great thanks
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3g signal is ok, i have not understand why my nokia 925 in 4g get best speedtest over Z3 ....
any other one have compared 4g speedtest vs other phone?

imsims said:
3g signal is ok, i have not understand why my nokia 925 in 4g get best speedtest over Z3 ....
any other one have compared 4g speedtest vs other phone?
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ok 4g is good ! i have a bad apn ...

Cool? Are people finding the signal to be strong and reliable for data and calls/texts?

Maybe the radio for Canada isn't optimized, but my lte signal is a bit worse than on the nexus 5, which was disappointing. The z3 loves bouncing between 3g and lte which is killing my battery

raegae2000 said:
Maybe the radio for Canada isn't optimized, but my lte signal is a bit worse than on the nexus 5, which was disappointing. The z3 loves bouncing between 3g and lte which is killing my battery
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I've noticed quite an improvement compared to my former HTC Sensation on Wind network, however, everyone will have a different experience depending on the phone they use for comparison.

Better than my S4 in my house by a hair. I even get LTE in the basement

I am going to be a bad example because this is my first phone on t-mobile.
compared to the Note 2, Nexus 5 and Galaxy s5 on spint, my Z3 on T-mobile has a WAY BETTER connection in my city. whether im in or out of my house or another building 4G LTE with dang good bars. for me.. speeds like in my signature is normal for me around here. well more like 25mbps. VoLTE is awesome here as well and call quality is amazing compared to sprint :S why did i wait 2 years to switch?

Thanks for your input guys

Better than the Z2, a tiny hair worse than the iPhone 6. IMO, very good reception

Pretty good at maintaining connection for me.
I live in an area with average to bad signal -90dBm to -110dBm on LTE
Xperia Z3
Ookla Speed Test: Run 1 and 2
42 / 49 ms Ping
36.87 /39.68 Mbps Down
4.92 / 8.10 Mbps Up
Mother's iPhone 6
47ms Ping
41.23 Mbps Up
4.38 Mbps Down

sav_uk said:
Cool? Are people finding the signal to be strong and reliable for data and calls/texts?
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I've never used 4g before but my one (6603, on EE in the UK) has peaked at 59megs down, 29 up, which is mental!

Thanks again for all of your help guys

sav_uk said:
Hi guys,
How strong is the cell signal on the z3? Is it strong indoors and outdoors? Also is it good at locking onto signal once you leave an area with no coverage? How is LTE signal strength? If anyone also has any comparison to phones with strong reception like the M8 and iPhone that would be great thanks
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I am in the US and have Z3 D6616 from T-Mobile. The signal is very strong to be hones! I had Xperia Z1 Compact, iPhone 6, HTC One M7 - all on LTE network and they had 2-3 bars at my place. This Z3 has from 4 to 5 bars, but no less than 4! Had been great at holding onto the signal. Although my Blackberry Z10 had the same 4-5 bars of signal.
There are some issues with VoLTE calls sometimes, don't know if UK version of Z3 has that feature enabled.

Much better reception on my z3 than on my previous LG g2.

I'm using Z3 6653 since a week now in Mumbai, India with vodafone network. Network signal strength is quite weak and signal losses have become frequent especially when i go indoors. I never had this issue with my nokia lumia 920. Even my wife's moto g had better reception at few places.
I'm on stock rom at present, havent rooted on this phone as i want to give few months on stock .
But, signal issue.. looks to be a dampener on this otherwise great looking snappy phone..

Southeast Europe here. Biggest provider, but no lte yet...
-73dBm atm inside a house ment for bunker
My old HTC 1s barely stayed connected here...
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The m8 of someone I know looses signal while the signal of z3 is still 2g.
Compared to my old s4 mini it's also better most of the time.

se1000 said:
Better than the Z2, a tiny hair worse than the iPhone 6. IMO, very good reception
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I haven't seen any significant difference between any device I've used (and I've used quite a few) in years.
Nexus 4, 5, Oppo Find5, Oppo N1, Oppo Find7, Z3, Z Ultra GPE (Only the F7, ZU GPE, and Nexus5 were LTE) - all provide nearly identical reception performance (losing and regaining signal) at my desk where reception is extremely weak. If there were any appreciable differences between any of these devices, some would've simply never had signal at my desk, while others would've had consistently weak but usable signal.

6603 on AT&T Florida
4 G
HTC One+ = -85 dBm
Z3 = -95 dBm
Z3 with Devilcase bumber = -99 dBm
Data speeds of H+ and LTE almost the same down. Up, LTE much better.
Still can't receive calls or SMS with LTE turned on. If I make or receive a call it will work for several minutes but then send calls directly to voice mail. 15 minutes later I get a voice mail notice but no missed call.

[Q] Oneplus One Tmobile

So does the factory unlocked oneplus one work good with tmobiles 4G lte bands, I currently have the att note 4 and has terrible connectivity and signal strength with tmobiles network never had issues with tmobiles phones them selves had great signal till I bought a factory unlocked att note 4 it works but the signal is bad, I want the one plus one but anyone use it with tmobile and how is the signal compared to a tmobile phone?

It does work well. Not as well as the TMO S5, it doesn't have all the bands. That being said, my LTE speeds have dropped to around 20mbs in certian places were they once might have been 35mbs., you'll have to do a speed test to even notice. I live in middle of nowhere AL, this is a rest i just ran. tl/dr OPO works great on TMO

Cool seems good, another thing is the signal strength I use my phone a lot and this att note 4 hardly ever gets signal at the border I work by the Otay border. my other tmobile phones had excellent signal.
So signal wise is it almost the same as tmo s5 ? Let's say in certain areas where you used to get very low signal with the s5 does the oneplus one still get signal? I almost never get full bars unless I'm outside with my tmobile phones I would literally almost have full bars or close to full bars anywhere and that's what I'm looking for.

Cr1z619 said:
Cool seems good, another thing is the signal strength I use my phone a lot and this att note 4 hardly ever gets signal at the border I work by the Otay border. my other tmobile phones had excellent signal.
So signal wise is it almost the same as tmo s5 ? Let's say in certain areas where you used to get very low signal with the s5 does the oneplus one still get signal? I almost never get full bars unless I'm outside with my tmobile phones I would literally almost have full bars or close to full bars anywhere and that's what I'm looking for.
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I travel for work a LOT and what i have found is where i got poor LTE on my S5 i now get HSPA+ on thr OPO . basicly same speed though. Again im in the US. I have no idea what border you taking about and being New Years, I'm not looking it up . I still get signal where I always have.

Cellular strength and throughput

We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Huawei Nexus 6P's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add.

Using on AT&T, signal strength is good. And it has band 30 which will be good in the future when they get that rolled out.

Using on Verizon. With my old Note 3 and also my work iPhone 6 Plus, at work where the signal is terrible, it would switch to 3G periodically. With the 6p, i haven't had a single instance where it switched to 3G. Just for kicks, i put in my coworker's T-mobile sim card. He has iPhone 6 Plus and he gets 1 bar on his iPhone and i saw 3 bars

LTE on T-mobile - good strength compared to my Nexus 5 - can get LTE in some areas where I did not before. Shows full bars though LTE discovery shows different strength levels on band 4. Waiting for band 12 support to see full impact and hopefully with carrier aggregation to give better throughput.

pipnmike said:
Using on Verizon. With my old Note 3 and also my work iPhone 6 Plus, at work where the signal is terrible, it would switch to 3G periodically. With the 6p, i haven't had a single instance where it switched to 3G. Just for kicks, i put in my coworker's T-mobile sim card. He has iPhone 6 Plus and he gets 1 bar on his iPhone and i saw 3 bars
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Yup same here. this thing gets better signal at work (in a 12 story building) than my Note 4 on VZ. just to be sure it isn't a software bs thing. I tested speedtest and it pulls 7-8 mbs vs 1.5-3 mbs before (note4). So not sure which of the two VZ freq it pulls from normal or XLTE but the radios/antenae seems stronger than the note 4. in any event, I am quite happy and satisfied with my signal!! (orange county, calif)

T-Mobile signal at my desk at work has been inconsistent with my past two phones (Moto X 2014 and G4), but the 6P manages to hold on to LTE more often than the other two did. It also seems to switch back to LTE from HSPA+ quicker.
The biggest difference is HSPA+ performance. With both the Moto X and G4, HSPA+ performance was always awful, to the point that I just figured T-Mobile's HSPA+ spectrum was too saturated to provide decent results. The 6P manages to get much better data throughput in these conditions, so I am loving that.
LTE performance seems to be on par with the other phones, but with so many changes in the network, I never know if it's the phone or new things going on in the network.

I noticed that the signal strength is far superior than what i was getting on my S6 Edge. The 6P gets signal in places my S6 didn't so im a very! very! happy camper.

Cell reception has been pretty bad on mine so far...
Could anyone check if covering the visor area with your hand affects cell signal? (You will inevitably cover part of it when holding the phone horizontally with both hands or just the left hand) On my phone, just loosely covering the visor area with my hand lowers signal by one to two bars, and lowers data transfer rate from ~16MBps to less than 10MBps..

Of course it does. Every phone has an area or two that allow you to really hurt the signal by covering them with your hand.

WIthout a doubt the cell signal is far superior to that of the Nexus 6 that I replaced. This was easily seen driving down the road which with the Shamu would have areas that there was no signal at all, yet with the 6P I had at a minimum 2 bars all the way up and down the road. Even in my house where I had to switch to WiFi calling because of so many trees , I also get a good LTE signal throughout the house.
WiFi performance itself is amazing as it is literally faster than my $4k gaming laptop. This is what I got on my 300 connection
http://screencast.com/t/dHcAt6FuxN6
http://screencast.com/t/2Vn4MF5Iw

pipnmike said:
Using on Verizon. With my old Note 3 and also my work iPhone 6 Plus, at work where the signal is terrible, it would switch to 3G periodically. With the 6p, i haven't had a single instance where it switched to 3G. Just for kicks, i put in my coworker's T-mobile sim card. He has iPhone 6 Plus and he gets 1 bar on his iPhone and i saw 3 bars
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Hope this is the case for me too! I have the Nexus 6 and lose LTE occasionally... it irritates me too, because i can toggle Airplane Mode and LTE pops back up. So hopefully this is the case for me as well.

collinjm01 said:
Hope this is the case for me too! I have the Nexus 6 and lose LTE occasionally... it irritates me too, because i can toggle Airplane Mode and LTE pops back up. So hopefully this is the case for me as well.
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I used to see this with my Nexus 6 and G4 all the time. I had to use LTE Discovery and its Auto Cycle feature to stay on LTE longer at work. With the 6P, if it does drop out of LTE, it recovers a lot quicker than all the other phones.

Coming from my Nexus 6, I have much better reception everywhere in the Phoenix Valley
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I am on AT&T and I am finding myself getting better LTE reception than ever before. My previous phone was an Xperia Z3 and the 6P is definitely superior.

Way better signal than the Moto X 2014 or Oneplus One!

I'm on Verizon and have not had a chance to test it in my fringe areas. I do have a Wilson signal booster in the house and my Note 4 would typically show a signal strength of -84 to -86db. The Nexus 6P is consistently in the mid -70s. (Lower is better)

My cell reception is amazing.. Texts in and out of the depths of where I work.. Voice quality was muffled at times but seems better with root

I have a Nexus 6 & ordered a 6P using it on Verizon. Is the reception about the same? The 6 was my first moto phone & had much better reception than my LG G2 (previous phone). Will I lose call quality?

On t-mobile for the most part I am getting good signal. But....
I am noticing that many times I drop my LTE connection and just get HSPA and or 3g....
I am also loosing my LTE signal and a point that the cell site is close by so it is not because of weak signal.
I looked at coverage maps and used an app called LTE discovery I don't see the new T-Mobile bands here in Atlanta yet... Maybe that will help..

LTE has been great for me here in Irvine CA, got 84 Mbps download. WiFi speeds are good too, but WiFi range is much worse than my nexus 5. Bluetooth range isbworse too. My n5 keeps my WiFi signal down at my street corner, 6p loses thebwifi half way there. Same with Bluetooth, it loses bt signl half distance that my n5 does.

Cellular strength and throughput

We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Google Pixel XL's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add.

Awesome. Verizon just put up a new cell tower by us. 68 down and 15 up.
Sent from my Pixel XL using XDA-Developers mobile app

I'm getting LTE service in places that were dead zones compared to my 6P.

I'm getting 120Mbps down, 30Mbps up here on Telstra.

I guess I am the odd ball out, coming from an iPhone 7 Plus and a Note 7 this phone def has the worst signal of the three. The other two would average at my house 3-4 bars of signal the Pixel is 0-1 bars. Now to be fair it hasn't dropped a call, I have not tested the throughput of it as of yet.

Fate0n3 said:
I guess I am the odd ball out, coming from an iPhone 7 Plus and a Note 7 this phone def has the worst signal of the three. The other two would average at my house 3-4 bars of signal the Pixel is 0-1 bars. Now to be fair it hasn't dropped a call, I have not tested the throughput of it as of yet.
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So the reception isn't actually that great. I wonder why all the reviewers were raving about it then. I can't imagine a half-metal phone manufactured by HTC having such fantastic cell reception.
Have you checked the actual dBm values? You can't really compare by "bars" side-by-side. I know that my Galaxy S6 got about 10dBm better reception than my Nexus 5, not sure how it is for the Pixel XL.

I know this probably isn't the right place for it but in London we use our phones to pay for transport and the NFC chip here is lightning compared my note 7. Just as fast as the oyster payment cards we use which open the gates for us Londoners.
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Pixel XL reception's seems to be a bit less than my tried and true Nexus 6. I will measure with LTE Discovery app over next few days.

The real question is ,
Anyone was able to trigger LTE-A (4G+) which peaks to 150+mbps or is it just LTE and we have to speedtest every now and then ?

Emerald Core said:
The real question is ,
Anyone was able to trigger LTE-A (4G+) which peaks to 150+mbps or is it just LTE and we have to speedtest every now and then ?
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*#*#4636#*#* is your command, change it, experiment boom, done

Sorry hit send twice.

Now that I have the phone... The cellular reception on the Pixel XL is as good as, or better (by a few dBm) than the Galaxy S6.
However it's hard to tell sometimes when it's in LTE+ carrier aggregation mode

My signal strength has been good. When I'm outside, I usually have full bars. Then when I get inside a building, I lose 1 bar. I have at&t, Google pixel xl, cruzerlite case.

Here's my speed test details from being inside a building.

How exactly do you enable LTE-A or VoLTE in the 4636 menu? I can't seem to figure it out.... I know I can't enable VoLTE provisioning; it lets me turn the switch on, but if I back out and go back in, the switch has reverted to off.

Tmobile baby??

i think my opinion comes more from the provider than the phone itself. My wife also has a Pixel XL but she's on Project Fi and I'm on AT&T. She gets better service than I do in most places, which is more TMO vs ATT than anything else. we live in NY and i'm underground a lot while traveling to work and home. I'm always getting 5 bars of LTE coverage in the train at Grand Central but I might as well have no service. There's never any data.

Cellular strength and throughput

We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the OnePlus 6T's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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Ran a speed test this morning and hit 151Mbps dl and 31.5Mbps ul. (On TMo) I don't even know what to do with that.

I ran one this morning, got 192 dl and 47.7 ul on T-Mobile. Left att last week and am loving the coverage and speed so far! Also, it's almost half the price of att, and that was with my 28% discount from my employer for att!

cswee1932 said:
I ran one this morning, got 192 dl and 47.7 ul on T-Mobile. Left att last week and am loving the coverage and speed so far! Also, it's almost half the price of att, and that was with my 28% discount from my employer for att!
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Where do you live?
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I'm in upstate NY.
nite2k said:
Where do you live?
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I'm getting around 40 mbps Dl at home, but 135 mbps in the city (Memphis) . That's better than my Pixel 3 XL got. It was more around 30-35 at home. I never really tested it in the city.

I live in the UK and use Vodafone, Im getting full service, my XS Max has 3 bars. The speed on the 6t is 62 mbps DL and 17 UP. On O2, service is the same, with a speed of 22 DL and 20 UP.

cswee1932 said:
I'm in upstate NY.
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More specifically, is was in the Schenectady, NY area delivering to a local college, a few miles away at home, I get around 20-30 up and 5-10 down.

cswee1932 said:
More specifically, is was in the Schenectady, NY area delivering to a local college, a few miles away at home, I get around 20-30 up and 5-10 down.
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I'm in upstate ny too and have been getting great speeds. I went to a concert last night and had terrible data speeds while in the arena.
Hopefully it was a one time thing

How are speeds on Verizon.

In India, on Vodafone-Idea connection. If it switches from 4G to 2G (Edge) due to poor signal strength, it doesn't recover to 4G in area of higher signal strength. It remains on Edge. I had to enter the testing menu (*#*#4366#*#*) and then select preferred network as LTE Only. Then it switched to full strength 4G.

Verizon Speeds are very nice so far

Overall internet speed is satisfying but the antenna in OnePlus 6T is weak I think. At work my friend sitting next me has an Iphone 7 Plus and he gets the signal and I dont. We are both on T-Mobile and both phones support all the T-Mobile bands. The only way for me to get signal at work is to use wifi calling option. According to OnePlus: Even if a device supports some or all of the required frequencies for this carrier, it will not be able to connect unless the device is approved for this network. So that means my OnePlus 6T supports all the bands but T-Mobile dont have them enabled for my phone? I purchased mine directly from OnePlus

pk-air said:
Overall internet speed is satisfying but the antenna in OnePlus 6T is weak I think. At work my friend sitting next me has an Iphone 7 Plus and he gets the signal and I dont. We are both on T-Mobile and both phones support all the T-Mobile bands. The only way for me to get signal at work is to use wifi calling option. According to OnePlus: Even if a device supports some or all of the required frequencies for this carrier, it will not be able to connect unless the device is approved for this network. So that means my OnePlus 6T supports all the bands but T-Mobile dont have them enabled for my phone? I purchased mine directly from OnePlus
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This is certainly something that I would like to know more about. As while I am at work my LG G5 does not have signal, while my IPhone work phone does have signal. Also, while driving home my LG G5 drops calls, while my work IPhone does not drop calls. Both phones are through Verizon.
I really want a phone that gets a strong signal/reception. I am concerned that I will have the same problem with the 6T as I have with my current LG, compared to my work IPhone.

As far as speed/throughput on Verizon, the OP6t blows my Axon 7 out of the water. at my house, in an area where i was lucky to have 200kb/s on my back porch, i get substantially better speeds and connections. two factors are at play. One- on Verizon, the OP6t is used as a 'cdma-less" device which means the phone/radio only is focusing on LTE signal instead of tying to switch from 3g to LTE and back, etc.Two: glass back. People list this as a qualm with the device bc of no wireless charging being present, but its for radio transmission/reception, not Qi wireless. glass is so much better than metal in this regard.
I now get service everywhere i did with Axon 7, but also in places where the Axon had spotty connections at best, the One Plus 6t gets respectable connections/speed. Case and point, i used to miss calls from work when i had been on call (medical) and with OP6T in the same location/times/etc i get flawless coverage. The speed is not brag worthy at my house, but blows that 200kb/s crap out of the water. a side note, i have the slowest/cheapest single line unlimited plan Vzw offers, so YMMV if you have a premium data plan. this phone has reminded me why i live verizon coverage and speeds. I had Tmobile for a couple of months and where i live in Upstate SC, Verizon is unbeatable for reliability as i am all over the upstate for my work and never hit a dead area until i crest the Appalachians. then its topography and physics, not the phone or network.
could not be happier.

mjnoles1 said:
This is certainly something that I would like to know more about. As while I am at work my LG G5 does not have signal, while my IPhone work phone does have signal. Also, while driving home my LG G5 drops calls, while my work IPhone does not drop calls. Both phones are through Verizon.
I really want a phone that gets a strong signal/reception. I am concerned that I will have the same problem with the 6T as I have with my current LG, compared to my work IPhone.
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I bought my OnePlus 6t from OnePlus it's on Verizon and I have no issues whatsoever and I'm all over to the Appalachians

planbbobby said:
I bought my OnePlus 6t from OnePlus it's on Verizon and I have no issues whatsoever and I'm all over to the Appalachians
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If a Pixel 3 gets say 230 Mbps download speed from my local Verizon cell tower do you think the 6t will match that.

bcltoys said:
If a Pixel 3 gets say 230 Mbps download speed from my local Verizon cell tower do you think the 6t will match that.
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I think it was surpassed that pixel...I could be wrong but one plus is always been at the top of the game when it came to uploads downloads and just all-around quickness thay are amazing phones for the price..,. And I'm a fan of the Google phones, but I think the OnePlus it smoke it's boots....... This is one way to look at it, look at one plus on eBay used. You could sell it a week after and you're not going to lose Harley anything for money..look at the phones that are a year old how much they still are they keep their value and are great phones... And this is just my honest opinion. And I played with a lot of flagships

One thing I've noticed with the device is the rf performance shows poorly in the signal department compared to other devices. However, a big difference is not just the numbers, say -117dBm vs -110 dBm on my s8+ but how the device performs at those numbers.
As an example.
My s8+barely gets service around -115dBm but my one plus at -120dBm will still work, all be it a bit slowly.
This is the first device I've noticed working at levels like that.

bcltoys said:
How are speeds on Verizon.
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dont even want to talk about the verizon speed im in miami i also have the 6t on tmobile and its speed is great