bignate
join:2005-12-05
Austin, TX
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Re: Not horrible
of course EVDO is better than EDGE...they are not Competitors.
EVDO's 3G Competitor from ATT is their HSDPA network which is comparable.
EDGE is ATT's secondary data connection for when you cant get 3G(for 3G phones at least).
when i am connected sure i prefer to be on the 3G network getting 700k but it is nice to know that if i cant get that i can still always use the backup...EDGE...i have never been completely out of data service with ATT. |
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kyler13
Is your fiber grounded?
join:2006-12-12
Arnold, MD | Yes, but EVDO is more widespread the HSDPA, so the CDMA providers are a step ahead of the GSM guys. I think EDGE is more on par with 1xRTT, though EDGE is clearly faster. |
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Time4aNAP
Premium
join:2007-04-09
Des Plaines, IL
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said by bignate  :of course EVDO is better than EDGE...they are not Competitors. That might be true, but they're obviously competitors. Using a word as a proper noun to signify some unstated meaning does nothing to alter the underlying facts, And the fact is that I can choose between several competing services.
when i am connected sure i prefer to be on the 3G network getting 700k but it is nice to know that if i cant get that i can still always use the backup...EDGE...i have never been completely out of data service with ATT [sic]. So what?
I prefer to be on Sprint's EV-DO whenever I can (at twice your data rate), and can fall back to 1xRTT or even dial-up. What's your point? Surely you weren't trying to make the false claim that AT&T's offering is somehow superior! 
The fact of the matter is that no wireless service works everywhere. The Faraday cages in some of my data centers don't discriminate between carriers. And no amount of marketing hype will convince them to pass one vendor's signal. So if you "have never been completely out of data service with ATT", that's only because you're not very mobile. That's not an accomplishment.
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CMoore2004
Premium
join:2003-02-06
Jonesville, MI
| I had Cingular a while, and around here Centennial is completely EDGE capable, but ATT gets only GPRS data in certain places.
I only switched to Sprint after giving Cingular a very fair chance.
Sprint's customer service DOES suck. 100% true. I tried changing the caller ID name on one of my lines, and they changed the account owner name. Apparently, I have to visit a store to change it back. However, my phones always work and I'm satisfied with that. My data card gets better speeds than Cingular pretty much everywhere I travel. Even the 1xRTT beat the hell out of the EDGE speeds in my area.
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
 ·T-Mobile US
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said by kyler13 :Yes, but EVDO is more widespread the HSDPA, so the CDMA providers are a step ahead of the GSM guys. I think EDGE is more on par with 1xRTT, though EDGE is clearly faster. :D If I wouldn't know you're talking about US_only, I would call this post h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s. 
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
 ·Comcast
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| said by kamm :said by kyler13 :Yes, but EVDO is more widespread the HSDPA, so the CDMA providers are a step ahead of the GSM guys. I think EDGE is more on par with 1xRTT, though EDGE is clearly faster. :D If I wouldn't know you're talking about US_only, I would call this post h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s. What do distant aliens have to do with this conversation? Sheesh! It's about Deathstar, not some foreign CEO's consideration someplace. We don't travel thousands of miles every day. We pretty much stay within our own thousand or so mile radius, probably within a few hundred miles from home on an average week. That's not Mexico, nor Canada for most of us, and nowhere near wherever you're talking about. |
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