Evidently they mean it when they say faster than Home Broadband

Having had my share of ups and downs with Clear, and AT&T, and other companies, I guess I just thought the sign up in the T-Mobile store was marketing spin. Specifically they had a couple signs that claimed their 4G service was "Faster than Home Broadband".

My Clear service on a good day is 6M down and 1M up. Not bad. My cable service was somewhat faster down, and about the same up. After seeing what AT&T's 3G service rates claimed to be versus what they actually were, I was pretty cynical about any marketing related to speed.

So when I hit SpeedTest this morning my jaw just about hit the floor. My results:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1640720799.png

In case you can't follow the link that's 13M down and 2.5M up. I ran it a couple different times today, and I'm getting pretty consistent results. It's just eyeopening to think how much of an upgrade I just made when all I was expecting was about the same speed. I will be keeping an eye on it to see if this is a Saturday special, but I have to say I am impressed to see a claim backed up with facts like this.