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Wireless Carrier Claims versus Customer Performance
Jim Warner
University of California Santa Cruz
March 2014
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Exaggerated claims might have an economic impact.
What about over subscription reducing performance during high use?
What is the effect of indoor v outdoor coverage?
Great questions, but not in 10 minutes. FCC and CPUC will employ crowd source
approach to get data.
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Claim: almost perfect LTE
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Small LTE extended area
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Verizon reports to the CPUC
Border shows 5 sq mile survey area
Claim: 10-25 Mb/s up Claim: 3-6 Mb/s down
Elevation: 400 ft to sea level
Area has 6 cell sites
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Survey method
Verizon LTE 7 inch tablet
Measurement at every street intersection
No do overs Ookla speed test
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Links
Data for each measured point: upload and download speed, ping time and coords
http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/verizon-SC.kml
Test of building envelope penetration
http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/in-bldg
CPUC data in KML format http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/mobile-test/