Living in SF, I haven't really noticed this, which the article bears out. I was actually just commenting in one of our Slack channels at $work that it's still kinda weird to me that the internets are, on average, at least 4x faster (throughput, not latency) on my phone vs my home internet service (bonded DSL).
EDIT: Out of curiosity, I just checked again, first on LTE and then on WiFi:
LTE: 30ms ping 64mbit/s down 23mbit/s up
WiFi: 24ms ping 6mbit/s down 2mbit/s up
I use AT&T LTE in New York City, which from my research back in the fall was at the very top available in the US. Although I got 23 Mbps once, it is typically around 10 Mbps.
In Seattle with AT&T I find that I often have to disable LTE because it's so slow. I just ran a test and I get about 1.5 Mbit/s downstream on LTE. Pathetic.
I can see that just over a day. During off-peak hours, I've speedtested around 260 Mbit/s on LTE on my iPhone (it's 10:20 PM on a weekday and I just got 230 Mbit down[0]), but during peak hours (commute hours or lunch rush), it drops to like... 20 Mbit
I’ve gotten 150 mbps down using the Ookla Speedtest app on my iPhone 6s at the strip mall nearest to me. (Nowhere special, suburban Annapolis.)
Tried it just now at my house on my iPhone SE: 29 mbps down, 28 msec ping. One floor right above my Wifi router, I’m getting just 30 mbps (7 msec ping however) over Wifi, so the LTE performance isn’t too shabby.
Outside in Greeley Square a week or 2 ago: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/646728668. I just did one at work inside a tall building (9:15AM ET) with 2 dots of LTE coverage and got 32 ms ping, 5 down/5 up.
According to a chart of the local LTE mobile internet options the max speed is 10Mbps. The fast test on my phone just reported the max speed as 1.9Mbps.
The LTE is faster because your ISP is a douche. It is insane to ever, ever think transmission over airwaves can rival same-day wired capacity. They're just assholes.
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