AT&T Names First Five LTE Launch Cities
Dumb choices
AT&T, dumb choices for you first 5 cities to get your LTE service. All these carriers don't seem to understand that the future of this country lies in the Western states. California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area should be the definitive first market to launch your LTE service. The Silicon Valley and California's economy growth needs to be supported and needs to have the technology first. The East Coast is dead and doesn't need the service.
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I beg to differ. The 5 cities are excellent choices to start and begin with. Woohoo for Houston (my hometown). As for California's economic growth, maybe if they cut the mountains of red tape, regulation, and taxes across the board maybe they would see more economic development. These are hard days and right now businesses don't really have an incentive to stay in California nor start up.
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So they are crying over the fact that they ran their own network into the ground. They don't have the capacity because of the iphone exclusive blah blah and now they can launch LTE? Crappy unreliable AT&T LTE lol. I wonder how fast it will actually be?
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Appearently not fast enough for them to brag about it. The fastest speed I've gotten thus far on Vzn's LTE is 34mb/s.
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Wow you don't know jack about California. And as it goes for Texas, the movie Full Metal Jacket has the best quote when it comes to Texas.
Point of the matter is, all the tech giants are opening up new HQ's or remolding their current HQ's. Real Estate is picking up and the next Net boom is blooming.
Now is the time to ditch the states East of the Rockies. It's time to kill of the old East Coast Bias now and for all.
Point of the matter is, all the tech giants are opening up new HQ's or remolding their current HQ's. Real Estate is picking up and the next Net boom is blooming.
Now is the time to ditch the states East of the Rockies. It's time to kill of the old East Coast Bias now and for all.
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I also want to add that California now has 3 of the largest cities in the country with San Jose (Capitol of the Silicon Valley), Los Angeles and San Diego. If AT&T wants to see instant profits, they would target those cities with their LTE service first.
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These markets were the original test markets. So...all the stuff is already set up. It makes sense to lead with the stuff you've already got built. That's what Verizon did and it's worked pretty well so far aside from the small hiccup a few months back.
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Are you aware of what you just said? You just said that California has 3 of the largest cities in the country.
Have you ever heard of NYC, Chicago, Houston, Dallas.
Have you ever heard of NYC, Chicago, Houston, Dallas.
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I agree San Francisco needs more competition in the LTE market. We have Verizon LTE and MetroPCS LTE, why not let AT&T see how great their LTE could be? Ill tell you why it wont happen soon enough - because people dont even trust their 3G or HSPA+ roll out in SF, it sucks!
If people want FAST data they chose T-Mobile and Verizon now, and dont use AT&T or Sprint
If people want FAST data they chose T-Mobile and Verizon now, and dont use AT&T or Sprint
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Sprints WiMax currently runs faster than Verizon's joke of an LTE network in the SF Bay Area. SpeedTest.com tests have proved it countless times.
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I dont know what the deal is with LTE in SF but in LV I get above 10mb/s quite regularly, using the Samsung Droid Charge. I even get 20+ mb/s down the street at Sahara & Paradise.
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You do realize that nothing related to this would stimulate california's growth right? And would you rather have those areas you claim should get first dibs be hit with possible malfunctions and issues or have you forgotten that most of California is valleys and peaks vs larger, open expanses of area? If they're going to make sure it works I'd rather it be in an area where there's at least a controlled rollout vs "why isn't this working? oh, it's on a hill." (SF is retarded for cellphone carriers.)
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With reguards to hills, the 700mhz frequency is suppose to have a farther range, right.
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700mhz does have a further range but it's still affected just like everything else is. Huge changes in terrain, trees, stone, lead paint, cast iron pipes, etc all effect it's penetration rate.
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When you consider that AT&T HQ is in Atlanta and AT&T Mobility HQ is San Antonio, the choices are logical. Rollout test in areas where you can get direct unbiased feedback without a ton of airing problems in public.
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Dumb Choices? It's called moutainous areas. The places which pose the biggest signal problems. Test it in the toughest place for it to work, then roll it out to the easiest.
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