Is boost mobile coming out with 4g

[kolosus]

No towers in my area either and that includes the whole state of indiana and most of michigan and only 1 city in michigan has 4g and that city is several hundred miles away from me

Dont feel special. Most of the USA is without any 4g coverage! If you live on the East coast you're luckier than the West coasters.

The way it looks all or even most of USA will never get 4g/wimax coverage... LTE has already come up and beat everyone else. 4g never even got to the breakeven point. Now 4g LTE is going to be owned by the Government, as soon as Verizon's exclusive access runs out sometime this year. That means everyone is going to have access.

What did you say? Big Brother? You're just over reacting... Have you read April's issue of Wired?

 

[kevincott]

It looks like 2.5gig will be the throttle threshold.


Later this year, in order to provide the best value and customer experience, Boost Mobile will move to reduce 3G/4G data speeds to 3G speeds of 256kbps when a customer’s data usage exceeds 2.5GB in a month. Customers who go over the 2.5GB threshold may experience slower page loads, file downloads and streaming media. Data speeds will restore to full 3G/4G speeds when a customer’s new monthly plan begins

http://newsroom.boostmobile.com/pre...4g-and-android-monthly-unlimited-low-40-htc-e

 

[MyUsernameRox]

256 kbps...isn't that dialup speed? lol

 

[kolosus]

No. Dial up was 56kbps at its best. Even then your actual speeds would be about 45kbps and that's on a good day. It could fall back to 25-30kbps. There was some algorithms out there that would "pre fetch" some web pages depending on your "browsing history" and it would make it seem like you're browsing at faster speeds. But if you were streaming youtube then it would show at the real speed.

To put things in perspective, that's a 5-6mb mp3 in roughly 30 min. I remember using dialup forever. When tethering from my phone I can get a 75mb file in about 15 min. My phone gets about 180kbps. Even if they "throttle" me to 256kbps it'll still be faster than any speed I ever got so I'm cool with it.

 

[Topken]

Kolosus I know exactly what you mean and my AOL dial up was even worse then standard 56k speeds. I pretty much got double aol with netscape when aol wouldnt install on my brand new 64bit pc back in 2006 so we had to find a new internet provider and cable wasnt an option here back then.