Well, let’s peak under the hood and see if we can find some dirt on the golden child of wireless networks. If Verizon’s streaming quality is as impressive as its other features, it may need to be bumped up to a full 5 stars on our review. Let’s do a little latency blind experiment to start things off. If we line up three phones on three different networks, streaming the same baseball game at the same time, which stream is the first to show the baseball hitting the catcher’s mitt after the pitch? This is fun, right? YouTube TV will be our streaming service of choice because it provides live latency stats like the one you can see below. Anecdotally speaking, I was able to watch the game with no buffering pauses or grainy streaming quality. For reference, we performed the exact same test with T-Mobile, and it scored a 33.33 second latency—about five seconds behind Verizon. Hold on to your hats ladies and gentlemen, Verizon just got the edge T-Mobile. Take that for data!
