How CenturyLink, Verizon network performance stacked up in Q1

A residential or business customer's wireline service experience is influenced by three factors of an operator's network performance: latency, throughput and availability.

FierceTelecom, in partnership with Cedexis, has taken a look at how the top wireline operators such as AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) performed along these metrics in the first quarter. Similar to the fourth quarter, Verizon and Consolidated remained nearly tied with the lowest latency of 39.7 and 39.8 milliseconds, respectively. 

FierceTelecom has released its latest latency and wireline network performance report which you can read here.