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flyingjoey
join:2005-11-07
Jersey City, NJ
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Whys is everyone talking out of their a$$?
So what if LTE is in 99.9% of the world and WiMax is in .01%.
Most of you have not seen WiMax in action, and I'm sure as hell haven't even seen LTE as it's 3 years away.
I couldn't care less to freaken ROAM in an European LTE Network. I honestly only care about what affects me which is what's in between the west and the east coast and what's between Canada and Mexico.
While traveling in the Dominican republic last month I had a chance to use WiMax, although the speed was nothing to write home about (1.5down/768up) it was more than enough for me to do what I needed to do.
I already carry a Sprint Phone, an AT&T crackberry and a Verizon network card. My calls on the sprint phone consistently sound better, while my crackberry phone calls consistently sound like I'm talking to robots. I've gotten so good at this that when I hear people on conference calls using their crackberry I tell me to hang up or call from a land-line.
AT&T's voice quality EVERY WHERE I've been BLOWS. | |
a333
A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Corona, NY
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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February 18th, @10:06PM
| the WiMax race is only starting... give it 5 yrs and every laptop/mobile device sold here will have a WiMax chip inside just like Wifi, as many have said. And what a lot of GSM fans are missing here is the fact that WiMax will soon evolve into a multi-provider environment, with different providers offering different levels of service. Also, unlike UMTS/LTE, its an open IEEE standard, not bound by the same licensing restrictions. And btw, WiMax is a completely new standard that leans more toward an IP-based platform, instead of LTE and UMTS, which adhere to the current voice-based, carrier-dependent, platform.
There's just no getting past these facts. Doesn't matter if 99.9999999% of the world currently uses GSM/LTE/UMTS. The point is that the goal of WiMax is more to create an entirely new service model, where customers can simply bring their own device, and buy service on the fly, and also be able to load their own apps and software. Verizon, obviously, is terrified about this, as it would spell the end of their vicelike grip on their phones and apps.
In the end, it all comes down to who has the best network. Yes, I know, customer service is important, but the quality of service is as well. There's no getting past the fact that sprint has the best record in the data/advanced services field. It roams on more providers and has much more open policies than verizon, or any other provider, for that matter. | |
xenophon
join:2007-09-17 | ^Bingo. Someone gets it! | |
flyingjoey
join:2005-11-07
Jersey City, NJ
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to a333
Let the Verizon & AT&T of the world show their track record!
Who the hell told verizon and at&t that someone who pays 60 dollars a month should be expected to limit their usage to 5 gigs a month, no multimedia and use the service exclusively for "text based" contents... come on.
The only company I know who has consistently had an open door policy when it came to data services was sprint. I've been a customer of sprint since the days of "US Sprint and their FON card." I've had the same wireless number for 11 years with Sprint. Yes there have been minor issues here and there, and they have all been resolved to my satisfaction, and always in my favor.
I've been using "data services" from sprint since 2002 when I figured out how to tether via a USB cable (1x back on those days), then EVDO.
To make a long story short... who knows, LTE may be the best thing since email, but it's technology which is years away, I have requirements which can be addressed NOW, and can't wait. By the time we all start seeing LTE equipment WiMax will be reaching puberty.
And let's be honest here, we're most likely to see 2-4Mbits on WiMax from sprint than 2Mbits from Verizon or AT&T. | |
phoneboy3
@shawcable.net | reply to flyingjoey
and your point is.......? | |
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