As Transit Wireless continues its massive project to cover nearly 280 underground subway stations in New York City, testing company Global Wireless Solutions decided to take a look at the quality of the coverage that has been extended thus far.
CEO Paul Carter spoke with RCR Wireless News about the testing, which was conducted in June and July in around 60 stations where either distributed antenna systems or Wi-Fi coverage has already been rolled out. The company found that the Q Line had the best overall speeds, both for mobile-only and when Wi-Fi was taken into account. Watch the interview below:
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GWS used Rhode & Schwarz’s SwissQual QualiPoc Freerider portable testing system with Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphones for the benchmarking. A GWS engineer visited the stations and/or platforms Transit Wireless had listed as having had enhanced service deployed, although GWS found that six stations on the “deployed” list actually had no detected signal, Carter said.
The packet data networks of AT&T Mobility, Sprint, T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless all were tested for upload and download speeds. Results on mobile data performance and Wi-Fi performance included:
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MOBILE DATA PERFORMANCE |
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BEST LINES |
WORST LINES |
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| 1) | Q LINE | 21) | Z LINE |
| 2) | 6 LINE | 20) | J LINE |
| 3) | R LINE | 19) | 5 LINE |
| 4) | N LINE | 18) | 3 LINE |
| 5) | D LINE | 17) | C LINE |
| *Taking only mobile performance into consideration | |||
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OVERALL TRANSIT WIRELESS WIFI PERFORMANCE |
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BEST LINES |
WORST LINES |
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| 1) | B LINE | 21) | 4 LINE |
| 2) | A LINE | 20) | 5 LINE |
| 3) | C LINE | 19) | 6 LINE |
| 4) | Q LINE | 18) | E LINE |
| 5) | F LINE | 17) | 1 LINE |
| *Taking only Transit Wireless WiFI performance into consideration | |||
The NYC subway system handles more than 1.7 billion riders per year.
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