Store manager, so I definitely try to facilitate sales from the board here. Helps pad my numbers.
Either way, I facepalm anytime HSPA gets referred to as 4G
Ya not your fault that corporate ads blast 4G logos all over the place.
It’s like HD…HD everything…HD floor cleaner, HD glasses, HD underwear.
Neat. Now I can blow past my ‘unlimited’ data plan even faster!
You know to much! You must be silenced!
pulling down 45-50 Meg speed tests on the GSIII… If only the network was gonna stay this empty.
The data speeds and the GS3 combined = happy nerd.
it makes no sense they would open the pipeline like that, it makes more sense to open it up in segments to keep a consistent speed available to all users… now people will get used to those speeds and when it goes to 7-10mbps people will be pissed
#1 it’s a great sales pitch. #2 it helps people blow through their data plans that much faster and need more expensive ones or pay overages. Also, I assume once they upgrade a tower they don’t do it in pieces, it either has LTE or it doesn’t.
it has the capability to be rolled out in segments (dont know the technical term)
verizon rolls out portions so that the more people who get on the network, they can flick a switch and its instantly back to where it was with half the people, from what i understand they will be able to do this quite a few times before people see a decrease in speed (aka they can do 5-10x the customers and still maintain that fast speed without a customers complaint about a slow network)
Huge money in cell tower back haul now
I would imagine its got a lot to do with time division multiplexing and packet scheduling since a low number of people are actually using 4g/whatever its actually called now.
It will be fast right up until launch day of the next iPhone (assuming it’s actually an LTE phone).
It will be slow on launch day and for a week until people cap their data and then it will speed up again. I am waiting to see if ATT lets people with grandfathered unlimited data plans keep it on LTE or if they will make you drop them when you move to the new LTE data. If they make you change, I may go to Sprint because I have been living on my data too much to not have unlimited.
I’m hoping they don’t allow LTE to grandfather in unlimited. A few gross abusers slow it down for the rest of us.
I don’t know how you guys use so much data I have another friend who hit 76Gigs so far this month
F U
I am not that nuts. I hit like 8-12GB a month and its all legit. Not tethering.
8-12gb a month? Do you travel for a living or just not have wifi anywhere?