PC Magazine - USA (2020-10)

SAN ANTONIO: AT&T
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most in the sprawling San Antonio metro area is that no carrier had particularly
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than in many other cities, and reliability was lower as well. We saw, in general,
the worst results for all carriers on the south side of the metro area, with a
string of poor results in Cassin and in the semi-rural areas near the Toyota
plant. But speeds in Canyon Springs also weren’t great, with AT&T being the
best performer of a bunch of bad results.

So what’s good in San Antonio? We saw strong AT&T performance across the
central and north sides of the metro area, from downtown up to Startzville (but
not beyond that). We also saw a few Verizon 5G results, but as we caught them
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near Southside Lions Park and in the Dignowity Hill neighborhood, but oddly
not downtown.

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