Sprint Begins Revision A Rollout
The Numbers
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Sprint:
EV-DOr0: 400-700kbs (with burst speeds of 2mbs)
EV-DOrA: 450-800kbs (with burst speeds of 3mbs)
EVDOr0 is available to 158 Million Customers
EVDOrA will be available to 158 Million next year.
When not under EVDO coverage, expect speeds of 144kbs (1xRTT)
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Cingular:
EDGE: 70-135kbs
UMTS: 384kbs (with burst speeds of 2mbs)
EDGE is available to 250 million customers
UMTS is available to 70 million customers
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By the numbers, Sprint appears to be superior.
If you have diff...
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Therefore, your numbers are skewed. 😉
Look at it like this. Sprint rolled out EVDO Rev O. Now Sprint is rolling out EVDO Rev A overtop the EVDO network they just rolled out last year.
Instead of doing such a thing (twice the time and work?) Cingular rolled out UMTS and HSDPA simultaneously.
An upgrade for WCDMA / UMTS networks. It doubles network capacity and increases download data speeds five-fold or more.
While the technology is theoretically capable of downlink (download) data rates up to 8-10 Mbit/s (million bits per second), initial deployments and devices will be limited to 1.8 Mbit/s, followed by network upgrades and new devices capable of 3.6 Mbit/s.
HSDPA is standardized by the 3GPP in UMTS Release 5.
Cingular's 3G network is currently capable of speeds up to 3.6 Mbit/s. With the next software upgrade, existing network equipment will be capable of speeds up to 7.2 Mbit/s. HSUPA and MIMO will follow, further boosting download speeds into t...
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