RoboMonkey
Android Expert
So I'm right in assuming that in the near future you wont need a "cell phone", but a VOIP phone. Sweet!
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So I'm right in assuming that in the near future you wont need a "cell phone", but a VOIP phone. Sweet!
misterzeno
Well-Known Member
I see what you did there OP
Not sure but my guest is they will keep voice seperate..
You will/can do VOIP over wimax, "Clearwire does it now" but I suspect Sprint will not go that route for a long time if ever..
CDMA will probably be around for a long time and once data is lifted off of it it means more people can be added..
I believe LTE will be the standard in the future. Kinda like Blu-ray winning the battles vs. HD-DVD. If LTE wasn't gaining popular ground, Sprint would not be considering getting into the LTE field. Anyways, it doesn't concern me right now but in 2 years time, I will be switching to another smartphone and going fulll steam towards LTE (Verizon, AT&T).
Here's some links to WiMax vs LTE articles:
CTIA: Focused on the Need for Speed - Forward Thinking by Michael J. Miller
LTE vs. WiMAX - PCWorld
LTE vs. WiMAX: The 4G Wireless War
Clearly everyone else besides Sprint is going LTE. Sprint should hop on the bandwagon already.
Here's some links to WiMax vs LTE articles:
CTIA: Focused on the Need for Speed - Forward Thinking by Michael J. Miller
LTE vs. WiMAX - PCWorld
LTE vs. WiMAX: The 4G Wireless War
Clearly everyone else besides Sprint is going LTE. Sprint should hop on the bandwagon already.
You can not compare usb doggles to cellphones.
They will have to convert, they can not keep gsm and cdma after 2018.
That is soo miss guided it is not even funny. You are posting marketing as facts, and really have no clue what you are talking about. In 2 years time, lte will still be around 2.3-3.3mbps. Wimax will be a full 8-10mbps.
It is not wimax vs lte. If lte is going to offer that speeds it promises it will have to backhaul with wimax.
Sprints decision to go Wimax was a very smart one.. It will put them in a good position in the up coming years.. I think it was part desperation part smarts..
Wimax is cheap and easy, "like my women"
but it has so much more potential, flexibility and usage and that it is what makes it a great technology.
When the LTE and WIMAX roll out they will both be fine but the congestion will come again and Sprint-Wimax will be better prepared to handle it..
And with the tech explosion we have been seeing its congestion is going to come much faster this time..
Wimax is cheap and easy, "like my women"
but it has so much more potential, flexibility and usage and that it is what makes it a great technology.
When the LTE and WIMAX roll out they will both be fine but the congestion will come again and Sprint-Wimax will be better prepared to handle it..
And with the tech explosion we have been seeing its congestion is going to come much faster this time..
bluehaze013
Well-Known Member
Maybe on paper T-Mo is faster but in real life I can assure you it's not. I left T-Mobile after about 15 years of service from them because I was just tired of the slow internet. Their 3g is awful and I live in and travel between major cities daily (Ft.Lauderdale-Miami) Your lucky to get a steady connection here, half the time the phone is on 2g and when it is on 3g it's only around 300kb per second and thats with HSDPA showing on my Nexus One.
Since getting the EVO and switching to Sprint the difference is night and day I have 3g everywhere I go and average around 1100kbps the internet on Sprint seems blazing fast compared to that on T-Mobile If I knew there was going to be this big of difference I would have switched a long time ago.
Since getting the EVO and switching to Sprint the difference is night and day I have 3g everywhere I go and average around 1100kbps the internet on Sprint seems blazing fast compared to that on T-Mobile If I knew there was going to be this big of difference I would have switched a long time ago.
They will not fully go over, they will offer lte phone, just like verizon will offer wimax phones.Just wait till Sprint integrates fully over to LTE
You keep getting stuck on that. Wimax is like wifi. Lte is like 3g.
You would not buy a smartphone today with out wifi, in the future you will not buy a smartphone without wimax.
There is zero reason for them to go over to LTE. Zero.
This ^
I live in Mesa, Arizona. I bought a Nexus One with Tmobile in January. Sprint gave me the EVO 4G at the Google IO conference. At my home in Mesa, Tmobile is very slow. Speedtest.net gives me around 60k download speeds, Sprint 3G on my EVO at my home gives me around 700k download! 4G is not available in the Phoenix metro area.
I am leaning towards keeping my EVO 4G instead of my Nexus One because Tmobile stinks in my neighborhood. I live in a suburb of Phoenix. I am not out in the middle of the desert.
I am leaning towards keeping my EVO 4G instead of my Nexus One because Tmobile stinks in my neighborhood. I live in a suburb of Phoenix. I am not out in the middle of the desert.
Greymarch it will be a whil before you get wimax. Arizona is very picky about permits when they go against local companies. Wimax is being built out by snap cable companies.
What I want to know is when will Tmobile data speeds improve in my area? Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the U.S. 60k download speeds for 3G is inexcusable.
Nokia N900 is not a dongle.
Lol.
What...were the cellular signal strength indicator, microbrowser format, and 3G icon telling you otherwise?
Meego
Nope. Won't be "officially" supported on 900...stuck with Maemo 5 and Flash 9.4. Obsolete OS after 6 months. Sux to thave the perfect phone "for me", save for Slingmobile.
Meego demos running on netbooks and tablets I've seen is pretty slick, but I digress.
But back on topic...for the people w/4G, is the coverage proving consistent, or sporadic? If sporadic, are there any planned upgrades (i.e. suring up weak areas) in your area, or once its live, that's it?
T-Mo's upgrade roll-out is kinda all over the place. I got the speed bump "middle of DC/Baltimore corridor", but there is supposed to be yet another tower going up on the other side of town later this year.
That sounds great but t-mo doesn't seem concerned with spreading their 3g network. just upgrading the existing one. Thats why I didn't get a nexus. do those of us in the outskirts or suburbs they dont seem to care about us. so I dont care about them.
Sprint, Verizon and ATT are the 3 I get. Verizon was about 700kb, att I didn't try cause of the 5gb cap and sprint was about 1.2mb unlimited so I went with them on the aircard.
let me know when t-mo starts to care about rural areas like the listed above 3. But all the statements i've read say t-mo isn't interested in more roll outs just upgrading existing towers.
not cool when your gps nav switches to edge in a suburb
Sprint, Verizon and ATT are the 3 I get. Verizon was about 700kb, att I didn't try cause of the 5gb cap and sprint was about 1.2mb unlimited so I went with them on the aircard.
let me know when t-mo starts to care about rural areas like the listed above 3. But all the statements i've read say t-mo isn't interested in more roll outs just upgrading existing towers.
not cool when your gps nav switches to edge in a suburb
Fair enough, but from what I understand, they are not just "upgrading", but also "expanding":
BELLEVUE, Wash.
^^ yes but you notice those were metro areas. They're only servicing metropolitan areas with no plans to expand coverage only upgrade where the bulk of their profits come in. I live in central valley ca and they supply bakersfield but all the surrounding cities have no 3g and terrible voice coverage. If you live in NY im sure thats great but In california hwy 5 and 99 is a complete deadzone for hours while all the other networks atleast have towers along the freeway for people traveling and 3g in small towns.