ninjatutle
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join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | Capage and P2P
Let's see how they deal with these 2. |
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baineschile
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join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | caps and throttling, duh |
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Obama Biden '12
join:2000-03-29
Beverly Hills, CA
 ·AT&T Yahoo
 ·Packet8
·magicjack.com
| Vs. T-Mobile
I'm a T-Mobile fan, but if they have a no contract data plan for under $50 and reasonable Los Angeles coverage I'm there.
Of course, the new Mac Books are gonna build in AT&T 3G...
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OS X on a PC? Yup! »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86 |
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partysource
join:2000-11-25
Phoenix, AZ | VS LTE
I'm just gonna wait for LTE. These speeds are nothing compared to LTE. |
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ninjatutle
Premium
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | reply to baineschile
Re: Capage and P2P
Or they could just ban P2P, duh!  |
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iansltx_
@spcsdns.net | reply to partysource
Re: VS LTE
I heard that LTE was a technospeak acronym for Pie In Skye. Wimax will actually come out, whereas LTE is the flying car of mobile connectivity. |
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ydoucare
join:2003-03-12
Rensselaer, IN
·Embarq
 ·Millenicom
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
3 edits | reply to partysource
said by partysource  :I'm just gonna wait for LTE. These speeds are nothing compared to LTE. And you think the providers that will be offering LTE are going to be pulling backhaul out of their collective asses in order to provide anything better than Xohm/WiMax? |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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By the time LTE is out, WiMAX 802.16m will be available, which is spec'd technically to 1Gbps, way higher than LTE. Only Sprint has enough spectrum to do it. But backhaul will be the challenge for ALL 4G carriers. We'll be lucky if 100Mbps is broadly available to every user at every 4G site in 5+ years.
Backhaul will be the limit, not the 4G technology. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
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Well to be fair, Verizon Communications, Inc. and at&t Inc. (you can throw in Vodafone Group plc and Deutsche Telekom AG if you want) ARE significantly larger than the Sprint Nextel Corporation and have more financial resources. One wonders how much that really means. |
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
| it bites
It just really bites that they are starting the services off in areas already heavily offered services... It just kills me that they do this then judge the future of the product off of the response from these markets..
Give me something reliable, with low latency, and i'll be happy with just 1.5mbps speeds.. I can game with that easily.. I can streamline with that easily.. Now if you give me a retarded 5 gig a month cap... Well, isdn will remain my friend... |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Sprint has WiMAX spectrum in major cities, Clearwire has a lot of spectrum in small markets and rural areas. Clearwire already has pre-WiMAX in several small markets and will grow it with real mobile WiMAX where they feel they can get a solid subscriber base. Once Sprint/Clearwire combine, they'll be able to focus on doing markets where they'll likely get subscribers no matter the size of the market. WiMAX has to be in the large markets in order for the ecosystem to economically work for everyone investing in the game.
WiMAX will work well in rural areas but there still needs to be an appetite/demand from a rural area in order for the carrier to supply/invest in it. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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Re: VS LTE
said by EPS :Well to be fair, Verizon Communications, Inc. and at&t Inc. (you can throw in Vodafone Group plc and Deutsche Telekom AG if you want) ARE significantly larger than the Sprint Nextel Corporation and have more financial resources. One wonders how much that really means. True but who is deploying what and when? Yeah.. that's what I thought. Sometimes, being the biggest kid on the block gets you just what you push.. HYPE..  .. |
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
| reply to xenophon
Re: it bites
Again though.. Not many that already have many options are going to switch just to risk having a possibly good internet option as opposed to one of their landline counterparts.. Yes, there are a few that will love it, but hell those few might as well be considered the same few that will be in the rural areas that need/want broadband on a reliable scale with okay pricing.. |
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