The average downlink speed was 23.6 Mbit/s and the peak data rate was 61.1 Mbit/s, which "meaningfully exceeded" the expectations of Signals Research. The data rate was higher than 5 Mbit/s for 95 percent of the time.

The average uplink speed was 15.2 Mbit/s with a peak rate of 23.6 Mbit/s, which was "much higher than we anticipated," according to Signals Research. The uplink data rate exceeded 5 Mbit/s 98.2 percent of the time. [Ed note: As a shared medium, wireless networks typically slow down as they get loaded up with customers, so it will be worth checking these speeds again in a year.]

The average latency was 49 milliseconds with a minimum value of 40 milliseconds. According the Signals Research, this was "higher [worse] than we were expecting based on the capabilities of LTE and our experiences with testing networks in Europe."

For the handover between LTE and HSPA+, it took 2.4 seconds for the device to drop the LTE connection and establish a connection on the HSPA+ network, which Signals described as "relatively seamless for a data connection."

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