Clearwire to Test LTE, Prove It Can Do LTE Better
The question I have is...
John B.
Since the world is settling on LTE as the standard, Sprint and Clearwire are acknowledging this fact and are prepared to offer both. And they can because they have the wiggle room.
When I had Clear here in Las Vegas wimax coverage was ok, there were a few spotty places though, like in Henderson.
What about the fastest speed you've ever got?
The fastest I ever got in Las Vegas was 15mbps, I even got 11mbps one time on the strip bus while moving in front of Wynn & Encore.
I was able to successfully obtain a speed of 10Mps only a couple of times. The average has been roughly 4-6Mps. I am quite happy with that. ๐
Web browser is indeed faster.
It is nice to be able to stores apps to memory card now, but very, very few developerse havde updated their apps to be able to be stored to memory card.
I literally only have 9 apps stored on my sd card. I really wish developers would update their apps to include this feature!
Your probably lucky to even have wimax in Wilmington, Del.
and now they want to switch and do lte
typical sprint
I worry about what scam LTE is going to bring. WiMAX is built on an all inclusive offering buffet. Up until LTE is launched, everything about LTE has appeared to be Ala Carte.
John B.
Sprint has been tagged as taboo and has undergone disgrace and humiliation. I truly feel Sprint has reached the folcrum point in this labeling. While not alot, Sprint was able to gain subscribers. These subscribers are reaping the benefits of Sprint's dramatic improvement of customer service. The word will get out.
Change does not happen overnight, but does require aggressive moves and tenacity in ...
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Sprint has been preparing for this era for years. While many carriers were busy swiping up other smaller carriers for subscribers, Sprint was busy horting precious spectrum for the future. Spectrum large enough to push the limits of what Wimax and LTE are designed for. The other carriers now realize the direction of the future, but were only able to acquire limited bulk spectrum. Even though VZW acquired a substantial amount of spectrum for coverage, it is only enough to handle a small amount of duties. In short, the other carriers will offer alot of sizzle with LTE, but no steak. Backhaul and the amount of spectrum is crucial in obtaining the power for pushing the envelope i...
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Slammer said:...
This is a very good question. I hope I can answer it correctly.
Sprint has been preparing for this era for years. While many carriers were busy swiping up other smaller carriers for subscribers, Sprint was busy horting precious spectrum for the future. Spectrum large enough to push the limits of what Wimax and LTE are designed for. The other carriers now realize the direction of the future, but were only able to acquire limited bulk spectrum. Even though VZW acquired a substantial amount of spectrum for coverage, it is only enough to handle a small amount of duties. In short, the other carriers will offer alot of sizzle with LTE, but no steak. Backhaul and the amount of spectrum is crucial in obtaining th
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Anyhow, it basically means that while Sprint may have 5 times more spectrum then the other competitors, they really have (probably) a little less then double the capacity at full build out.
It also shows that build out costs for the higher bands (2.4 GHz+)are at least TEN times greater then comparable build-outs in the 700 or 850 MHz bands.
Couple those data points with the fact that Clear is actually using a lot of that spectrum (in the super-high 5.0+ GHz bands) to provide microwave backhaul to the network because they don't have enough fiber-in-the-ground access to backhaul over landlines, and things start to look grim fairly quickly...
Sprint and Clear are certainly...
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Damn that's a lot of money to be loosing.
(Lower frequency = better spectrum efficiency)
Even if that was partially the case, you're ignoring a whole hell of a lot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_efficie ncy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_efficiency#Com ... »
Good info, but it lacks some significant detail. Look at the entries for "fixed WiMAX" and "3.9G LTE" and the problem presents itself in the "bandwidth B per carrier" column. The only thing they're really basing their calculations on is the bandwidth, and that's incomplete.
The calculations and discussions in that article are completely silent on the issue of spectrum quality within the radio wave continuum. It doesn't add much to the discussion of spectrum quality and real-world usability because we can only presume they're comparing calculations done with "apples to apples" spectrum, like 850 MHz WiMAX vs. 850 MHz LTE.
We don't kno...
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Personally I'm just looking forward to the day when we have dual-core smartphones, and 20+mbps real world/end user speeds, so webpages load in the blink of an eye, and !!BAM!! the next thing I'm doing is reshaping the webpage to read it.
He also stated that their massive holdings of spectrum has unleashed a great potential in their innovative plans to expand on the 4G platform.
Technology won't stop at these two 4G formats. So I am looking very forward to some more Sprint technology news.
It is true Sprint and Clearwire own more than enough spectrum to cover the entire nation. I cannot vouch whether or not they chose not to, but rather it may have been the lack of money to build it out.
Sprint did best when attached to the cool factor. Just as ATT is with the iPhone. It's cool. People are drawn to this. Sprint is reverting back to this and I for one, will welcome the return. they have always been innovative and we shall see more of this from them.
Slammer said:
In talking with an inside source at Sprint engineering...
As I am busily on my way to a career in telecommunications engineering, I would be really, really interested to know what your contact has to say about my analysis here:
https://www.phonescoop.com/news/discuss.php?fm=m&ff= ... »
Did I get anything wrong in my mindset here?
My further research also indicated that I think Clear is 120 MHz deep in deployed WiMAX spectrum and is still getting slightly inferior performance to what VZW is expecting to get out of 22 MHz of bandwidth in the 700 band. Is that correct?
Since WiMAX and LTE are very similar in their base formats, spectrum does indeed play a role in determining the outcome of what which will perform better. There is no disputing your analysis based on this information. The amount of spectrum held by carriers, does however, help in determining how much more can be acheived through the spectrum allocated.
As a telecommunications engineer student, you are fully aware that...
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As a telecommunications engineer student, you are fully aware that 4G is not the last frontier. We can only speculate on consistant leap frogging on future technological advances.
My question is why you would feel Sprint is not capable of these further advances?
I was not aware I ever said that, but it is true that they're using larger quantities of inferior resources to try and accomplish similar objectives.
My analysis was of spectrum usage an quality only. I don't think I ever mentioned LTE, WiMAX, 4G or 5G except to get people on the right columns of a table that I didn't write.
While I do think AT&T and Verizon have the upper hand with 700 MHz deployment options (compar...
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We must remember that Sprint has always been ahead of the other carriers in regards to innovative new ideas that were brought to the wireless industry. You can't think for one minute that engineers like yourself to be, are not wondering what the heck sprint plans on doing with all thier spectrum. I believe there is a lot more to spectrum than just building penetration. Convience for building penetration is very nice but I like the idea of the capacity for expansio...
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I have no idea what you're calculating using that second table, nor how you're coming to that conclusion.
For 750 MHz band:
511/(792-777) = (channels)/(bandwidth) = 34 channels/MHz
similar calculations for the other bands...
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