…or just here, in North Coastal San Diego County?

Back towards the beginning of this year, I was amused by Verizon’s campaign to illustrate that their 3G network is significantly larger than AT&T’s, and even more amused when AT&T responded that they “cover more people,” displaying a map that looked bigger than Verizon’s.

I wonder how many people never figured-out that the AT&T map, which “looked better,” was actually a map of their voice coverage, and not their 3G coverage?

About that same time, I began reading all kinds of scathing reports about how AT&T’s 3G coverage was not just spotty, but really pretty slow in some areas.

All of that back-and-forth got me wondering… I had started noticing what I perceived to be a slow-down in the 3G service provided by T-Mobile on my wife’s Android phone, and decided to see how well it was really performing, by conducting a series of speed tests over time.

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