Verizon and 4G
I didnt see anyone else post it, so just wanting to point out that VZW announced that the announcements that VZW had picked LTE for the 4G plans was incorrect. The report about VZW picking LTE was not from VZW saying it, my guess is when VZW announced it was going to partner with Vodaphone on 4G that someone made an assumption that it would be LTE and thus said VZW was going to go LTE.
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Good i always thought it was strange that verizon supposedly picked LTE, glad to hear it's not true....what direction do you think they will go?
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Pretty sure Vodafone will go with whatever they think is going to be best/ the EU forces them to pick and VZW will take the same.
The international roaming problems VZW has is hurting it on some of the big business accounts, the companies have to take alot of lines from us to t-mobile for the international coverage.
With the fact that performance on all the 4G techs are close enough(except some of the stuff I have been hearing with wimax not having the range it needs) that the tech picked will be whatever one will have the lowest cost of deployment worldwide as that will becoming the most widespread (aka like GSM is now).
The important things is that the voice quality on LTE or UMB should be the same and the data rates are going to b...
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The international roaming problems VZW has is hurting it on some of the big business accounts, the companies have to take alot of lines from us to t-mobile for the international coverage.
With the fact that performance on all the 4G techs are close enough(except some of the stuff I have been hearing with wimax not having the range it needs) that the tech picked will be whatever one will have the lowest cost of deployment worldwide as that will becoming the most widespread (aka like GSM is now).
The important things is that the voice quality on LTE or UMB should be the same and the data rates are going to b...
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LTE and UMB are not the same. Latency on the UMB is better than on the LTE. On the UMB it is about 16ms.
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Pretty sure Vodafone will go with whatever they think is going to be best/ the EU forces them to pick and VZW will take the same.
The international roaming problems VZW has is hurting it on some of the big business accounts, the companies have to take alot of lines from us to t-mobile for the international coverage.
With the fact that performance on all the 4G techs are close enough(except some of the stuff I have been hearing with wimax not having the range it needs) that the tech picked will be whatever one will have the lowest cost of deployment worldwide as that will becoming the most widespread (aka like GSM is now).
The important things is that the voice quality on LTE or UMB should be the same
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Wow that's really something! From everything I've read here, I thought that this was for sure - that VZW was going to LTE. However, UMB is still clearly better (based on what I've read so far). Perhaps they could develop a technology that works on both LTE/UMB networks?
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Verizon and Vodafone have a joint venture Verizon Wireless they will likely instill their strategies into their wireless network divisions to have a global LTE or else why would Verizon even mention it? they could have said something to the affect of “well we are going to help support LTE and Voda’s ambitions but for our wireless unit we aren’t going to do that.†they didn’t so obviously it means that they will work together and put it on both of their networks to have that global network. Verizon Wireless will deploy LTE.
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