DMZDec 18, 2010, 11:20 AM
I'm Waiting For The Mad Rush When The LTE Phones Come Out
Latest info on that seems to be February or March. Also, 2011 is when AT&T's exclusivity agreement with Apple REALLY expires, and you all know what that means, right?
Every last iPhone owner I know in the NYC area is counting the days until they can tell AT&T to shove it.
expensive..... enough said
In a single, long day of testing, I burned through 2 GB of data without trying too hard. All of that Netflix streaming was undoubtedly to blame. If you rely on the LTE network for your entertainment needs on a long business trip, you could easily burn through the larger 10GB data cap in a single work week watching TV and movies online. That's $80 down the drain just to watch Netflix. At that point, Verizon starts charging $10 per GB of data over the limit, which isn't exorbitant but it isn't cheap, either.
1 week. someone answer how lte is better?
the biggest issue I have read is that they alotted only 30MHZ of space for this technology, so bottlenecks will be frequent. Sprints Wimax has 300MHZ...the data highway has more lanes. Thats the reason for the flucation along with terrain.
Better building penetration is all I can come up with for answer.
the premise behind 4g is the same as it was with 3g. the issue is that a true 4g network does not exist. (google it. 4g is defined as 100mbps downloads, this article is about the fast network in place and if you can read youd see that the speeds dont ...
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