Clearwire Achieves 90Mbps Downloads in LTE Tests
Verizon's numbers
Clearwire announced peaks.
I'm sure they were faster anyway, but what will their speeds fall to under full load?
Verizon's also not looking at selling off spectrum to try and fund the network. My brother has clearwire, I am very impressed with their service, but they have serious bandwidth and capacity issues already, let alone when they get faster.
I'll let Cellstudent explain it as he knows more about the Spectrum than I do.
Long story short: Higher spectrum is better for faster peak data, but loses that edge fast once you go rural or in high urban areas.
Menno said:
I'll let Cellstudent explain it as he knows more about the Spectrum than I do.
Well, if you insist....
I think this is the third time I've had to repost this data for the same stinking reason.
Phonescoop ought to put me on the payroll or something...
https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
1) To show an example of a fine debate or,
2) To treat me as a cheap whore.
I'm not exactly sure which one to recognize here.
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Seriously though, I think it is important to realize the advantages and disadvantages of both frequencies. Individuals outside of geek world, won't know of, or even understand tech jabber. More than most people on these forums, you personally, know that the 700 Mhz spectrum is a happy medium but not immune to complications that higher frequencies are better equipped for.
I support the higher frequencies for the delivery of data transfer. There are two ways to look at efficiency. While 2.5Ghz may not be...
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Sorry.
BTW, I did take the time to admit that 2.5 GHz clearly has the better transfer rates. I'm a scientist, not a fanboy. Clearwire has a valid business model and valid technology to implement it with.
Even in poor RF enviornments, they are getting speeds of around 19Mb/s to 25Mb/s.
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They decided to use these low numbers to cover any and all potential performance results.
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Sprint advertises 3 to 6mbs with max of over 10mbs not the theoretical speed of 70mbs.The theoretical max of verizons lte is 100mbs with a 10sec latency. Those numbers will be a lot lower during load. This is why Sprint is the Now Network they already have 4g and Big Red is still playing ketchup! 😎
The first is in regards to technology. When the various carriers were making the various decisions over which 4G technologies would reign supreme (Ok, I just watched the Iron Chef, sue me 😛), there were three really. LTE, WiMax, and UMB.
Verizon and Sprint both, initially, considered going with UMB. It is more spectral efficient, faster, and has a slightly larger scalability than LTE. However, it was designed by the netwrok system bugaboo of the world, Qualcomm. In other words, Europe and other GSM camp would never approve it. Therefor, the largest backer of UMB moved to what the GSM (3GPP) world wished, LTE. In essence, this killed UMB and forced Sprint's hand.
I wont start a who is better at what...
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