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Qualcomm paid for a study that says its modems beat Apple’s C1

Apple’s C1 modem launched earlier this year as a competitor to Qualcomm, but a new study—paid for by Qualcomm—says it fall short.

It’s not entirely clear, but one possibility is that the Cellular Insights data is being skewed by Qualcomm’s higher top-speed capacities. Ookla’s study showed the same, but emphasized that hitting such peak performance is rare for smartphones, and in typical use, the C1 won out. Also, browsing Cellular Insights’ website seems to show that its last published work before this report was in March 2017.

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