Hands-On: Verizon Wireless LTE
expensive..... enough said
In a single, long day of testing, I burned through 2 GB of data without trying too hard. All of that Netflix streaming was undoubtedly to blame. If you rely on the LTE network for your entertainment needs on a long business trip, you could easily burn through the larger 10GB data cap in a single work week watching TV and movies online. That's $80 down the drain just to watch Netflix. At that point, Verizon starts charging $10 per GB of data over the limit, which isn't exorbitant but it isn't cheap, either.
1 week. someone answer how lte is better?
1 week. someone answer how lte is better?
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the biggest issue I have read is that they alotted only 30MHZ of space for this technology, so bottlenecks will be frequent. Sprints Wimax has 300MHZ...the data highway has more lanes. Thats the reason for the flucation along with terrain.
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vercetti said:
the biggest issue I have read is that they alotted only 30MHZ of space for this technology, so bottlenecks will be frequent. Sprints Wimax has 300MHZ...the data highway has more lanes. Thats the reason for the flucation along with terrain.
1) Clearwire caps out at around 150 MHz, not 300. Much of that spectrum is also either up for sale to make payroll next quarter or in 5+ GHz bands that are useless for WiMAX.
2)Why are you ignoring VZW's AWS spectrum holdings? East of the Mississippi they hold 42 to 66 MHz of LTE spectrum in every major market. That's plenty for the next few years!
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Jayshmay said:
Better building penetration is all I can come up with for answer.
Nope. Unless it can operate at lower C/I ratios, a new airlink alone does nothing to improve building penetration.
AJ
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the premise behind 4g is the same as it was with 3g. the issue is that a true 4g network does not exist. (google it. 4g is defined as 100mbps downloads, this article is about the fast network in place and if you can read youd see that the speeds dont even sniff that.)
That being said do take into account that verizon does not market this as a replacement for a home internet service. And our ever gracious journalist here even said that he watched several movies. So of course if youre using to replace a home internet connection youre going to run your bill up, and fast. youd do the same thing on the 3g cards with their 2 GB cap.
Finally the advantage to "4G" is quicker downloads and uplaods on the go. Being able to have an internet that...
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That being said do take into account that verizon does not market this as a replacement for a home internet service. And our ever gracious journalist here even said that he watched several movies. So of course if youre using to replace a home internet connection youre going to run your bill up, and fast. youd do the same thing on the 3g cards with their 2 GB cap.
Finally the advantage to "4G" is quicker downloads and uplaods on the go. Being able to have an internet that...
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