HSPA+ tends to have latency degrade far faster when you get farther from a tower than LTE, that's the big difference between the two. LTE speeds are quite good

HSPA+ tends to have latency degrade far faster when you get farther from a tower than LTE, that's the big difference between the two. LTE speeds are quite good on Verizon[1]. I get around 2-4MB/s normally. LTE pings for me are 50-100ms depending on where I am. [1]Verizon uses the 700mhz LTE band.