4G Coverage
It sure seems as though both Verizon and T-Mobile are both lighting up their "4G" networks at a faster pace than Sprint is building out WiMax. 👀
Another opportunity that Sprint had in its hands but let it get away. 🤭
cellphonesaretools said:
It does seem that Sprint has completely squandered their first-to-market advantage, as they have slowed the pace of lighting up WiMax. ☹️
It sure seems as though Verizon is lighting up their "4G" networks at a faster pace than Sprint is building out WiMax. 👀
Another opportunity that Sprint had in its hands but let it get away. 🤭
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Sorry dont considered tmobiles enhanced 3g network to be 4g. Only LTE and Wimax have true 4g capability. I think they both have theoretical speeds of 200 mbs correct me if I'm wrong.
Of course all that can change with a system upgrade, but last I saw, Sprint's average upload & download speeds with WiMax were far below Verizon's LTE and in many parts of the US Sprint's WiMax is slower than T-Mo's HSPA+.
Although 10 Mbit/second is indeed better than 5 Mbit/second, in reality a solid 5 Mbit/second is very liveable for the vast majority of users. Sure, some people will always want more of everything, but only a small percentage will ever really NEED anything approaching 10 Mbit/second. So if T-Mo's HSPA+ is reliably 3-5 Mbit/second, that's b...
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You might see faster 3G blackberries for ATT and LTE for VZW and eventually ATT.
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Sprint’s been having a lot of trouble lighting up new WiMax towers as of late – it’s been a REALLY, REALLY long time since we last saw another city get 4G. Part of it is due to Clearwire’s financial situation that’s all but frozen their efforts to expand their WiMax offering.
If you thought Sprint might have wanted to consider LTE before because of the situation, then you’ll be happy to learn that they’ll probably have no choice. PC World caught up with Sprint’s Bob Azzi, who is their senior vice president of networks.
If Sprint wanted to move on without Clearwire, then they’d have to use LTE technology b
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