The FACTS of 3G
I live in Tucson, AZ and 3G just got launched earlier last week for Cingular here. It got me thinking a bit.
I know the only 3G in Tucson now is Sprint Power Vision (operating at EV-DO rev. 0) and CIngular I believe is operating at UMTS speeds, with a possible HSDPA upgrade in the future.
There are some places with EV-DO rev A, correct? Can anyone give a side-by-side comparison of the 3Gs on the CDMA and GSM side? EV-DO rev 0 on wikipedia says it can pull 300-500 kbps real world and UMTS says 400-700 kbps. Can anyone vouch for these speeds?
I know the only 3G in Tucson now is Sprint Power Vision (operating at EV-DO rev. 0) and CIngular I believe is operating at UMTS speeds, with a possible HSDPA upgrade in the future.
There are some places with EV-DO rev A, correct? Can anyone give a side-by-side comparison of the 3Gs on the CDMA and GSM side? EV-DO rev 0 on wikipedia says it can pull 300-500 kbps real world and UMTS says 400-700 kbps. Can anyone vouch for these speeds?
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Every 3G market for Cingular has HSPDA. I have tried EVDO on Verizon and SPrint and HSPDA on Cingular. Cingular HSPDA is closer to 1mbs and Verizon has bursts up to that fast. Sprint is around 300-500 and has bursts at around 700kbs. Hope this helps
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Check out some of the posts in the verizon forum there is some pretty good info there.
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Much depends on your market, the time of day you use it, etc. EVDO and HSDPA are both dynamic systems, that is they allocate bandwidth dynamically. If there is a lot of usage on the network both will slow way down. With minimal network usage they will both speed up dramatically. In our market there is no HSDPA but Sprint's Powervision is running at about 1MBPS.
HSDPA and EVDO are roughly equivalent to each other in performance in their current revisions.
Sprint is not running revision a anywhere to my knowledge. Revision a will speed up the uplink speeds with a modest downlink speed boost so it won't be that dramatic for the average user with a powervision phone. The difference will be seen by users with pc connection cards.
HSDPA and EVDO are roughly equivalent to each other in performance in their current revisions.
Sprint is not running revision a anywhere to my knowledge. Revision a will speed up the uplink speeds with a modest downlink speed boost so it won't be that dramatic for the average user with a powervision phone. The difference will be seen by users with pc connection cards.
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any news on when 3g will be in inland empire area san bernardino riverside?
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well i Have it in fallbrook, thats pretty close, but not quite up there. hopefully soon though because i travel up there a lot.
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