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Verizon or AT&T for a New York Mobile Proxy?

Published Oct 10, 2026

Every order on our site starts with a carrier choice, and the two most people compare are Verizon and AT&T. We stock Verizon first because it is the carrier that behaves best across our three boroughs, AT&T second because it is close behind and better at one of our sites, and T-Mobile third for customers who need it. Here is how we would choose if we were the customer, by job.

Verizon in New York: long sessions, big pool

Verizon's New York footprint is dense and its modem sessions on our racks are the longest we see. Leave a Verizon line alone and the address often survives most of a day. That matters for anyone who wants a stable identity: a logged-in account, a long scrape that should look like one visitor, a browser profile that should not wake up on a new address every hour.

Verizon addresses show up as Cellco Partnership on AS6167 or AS22394, and geolocation reads them as New York. Verizon's regional pool is large, so rotating many times in a day gives you a good spread of addresses before you see a repeat. Speed on Verizon 5G in Brooklyn is at the top end of what we quote.

AT&T in New York: strong in Queens, quicker to move

AT&T addresses come from AT&T Mobility, AS20057, and also read as New York. On our Queens rack AT&T is the carrier we trust most, and AT&T 5G there is excellent. The difference from Verizon is in session behaviour: AT&T sessions tend to be shorter on their own, so a line left alone sees a new address more often without you asking. Some customers want exactly that. Others set a rotation timer anyway and do not care.

AT&T's pool in the metro is also large. In practice the address spread over a day of rotation is similar to Verizon, with slightly more repeats at the hour-to-hour level in our experience, which is anecdotal and varies with the time of day.

T-Mobile as the third option

T-Mobile, AS21928, is the carrier we keep in the smallest numbers. It is a good choice when a target has seen a lot of your traffic on the other two carriers and you want a different network entirely, or when your job is specifically about how something behaves for T-Mobile customers in the city, such as testing an app or an ad placement. T-Mobile 5G in New York is fast when the signal is good, and session lengths sit between Verizon and AT&T.

Pick by job, not by brand

Most of the time the right answer follows from what you are doing, not from which carrier name you like.

Long-lived account sessions or a browser profile that should stay on one address: Verizon
Frequent natural address changes without scripting a timer: AT&T
A second network after heavy use on the first: AT&T if you started on Verizon, or T-Mobile
Carrier-specific app or ad testing: the carrier being tested, obviously
Highest raw speed: 5G on Verizon in Brooklyn or AT&T in Queens, with the usual caveat about signal at the device

What is the same on all three

The plan shape does not change with the carrier. You get a dedicated SIM in a dedicated device, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 access with a username and password, no metering on data within the fair-use rule, rotation as often as you want with no waiting between changes, and the same prices. A day is $5 on 4G and $6 on 5G, a week is $28 and $31, a month is $65 and $75. An hourly test is $2 for the first two hours on 4G and $3 on 5G, up to four hours.

If you pick wrong, it is not a big deal. The dashboard lets you move a plan to another carrier for free, and the remaining time comes with you. We would rather you try Verizon for a day and switch than agonise over the choice.

Signal, racks and the borough question

Carrier choice also decides which rack a line lands in, because we do not hold every carrier in every borough in equal depth. Verizon modems in Brooklyn and Manhattan see the steadiest signal we measure, which is part of why they hold long sessions well. AT&T is thickest on the Queens shelf, where it sits closer to the carrier's gateway and reconnects quickly after a rotation. T-Mobile is spread thinner across all three.

None of that changes what a website reads. Every line, in every borough, geolocates as New York City, New York; the borough only matters for signal, stock and which carrier you can have today. If a job is sensitive to signal, for example a long upload or a streaming check, tell support which borough you want and we will say whether the shelf has it. If the job only needs the address to read as New York, take whatever carrier is in stock and stop worrying about the borough.

Our own default

If a customer asks us to just pick, we give them Verizon 5G in Brooklyn for anything account-shaped and AT&T 5G in Queens for anything scrape-shaped. That is not a rule, it is the habit of people who look at the monitoring graphs every day. Your mileage will vary with the target site and with the hour, and the hourly test exists so you can find out cheaply.

Frequently asked

Is one carrier more trusted than another by websites?

Not in any way we can measure. All three are consumer wireless carriers behind carrier NAT and sites treat them as phones. The differences that matter are session length, pool spread and signal at our sites.

Can I run one of each?

Yes, and some customers do exactly that, with three lines on three carriers so that a problem on one network never stops the work.

Do 4G and 5G lines on the same carrier use different address pools?

Not in a way you can see from outside. Both read as the same carrier in the same city. 5G buys you speed, not a different kind of address.

What if the carrier I want is sold out?

The dashboard shows live stock. You can reserve a line on a sold-out carrier and it activates automatically when a device frees up, or take another carrier now and move later.