ninjatutle
You can keep the "change"
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | Will there be capage?
As with their Sprint Mobile Broadband service at 5GB?
Or will they wait until .5% of the users download too much and then cap everyone like they did with SMB? |
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
| I was thinking the same deal.. Why have the extra bandwidth if you can't really use it? I mean a car that can go 200 mph, but with only 1/8 a gallon of gas.. Your not gonna go far with it.... Granted, I do understand some caps to restrain 733T dawg and friends from slaughtering the network with file sharing and such, but man.. Come on, legit video streaming and game patch downloads eats some bandwidth!!! |
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v_lestat
The Blood Is The Life
join:2002-11-09 | being in the business i can tell you that the WiMax isnt all they had hoped it would be. they can make all the claims and marketing hype they want,, but the results thus far are quite crappy, and i mean that,, very very disappointing. |
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expert007
join:2006-01-10
Buffalo, NY | So what kinds of real world throughput are they seeing? |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
 ·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
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said by v_lestat  :being in the business i can tell you that the WiMax isnt all they had hoped it would be. they can make all the claims and marketing hype they want,, but the results thus far are quite crappy, and i mean that,, very very disappointing. And you think LTE will be any better?  |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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June 18th, @03:58PM
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said by v_lestat :being in the business i can tell you that the WiMax isnt all they had hoped it would be. they can make all the claims and marketing hype they want,, but the results thus far are quite crappy, and i mean that,, very very disappointing. Can you be more specific? Sounds like FUD from a Qualcomm employee. I've seen people posts speeds of 3-6Mbps with latency much better than EVDO. But I have heard there will be challenges indoors if not near a tower, unless doing fixed with an outdoor antenna. MIMO antennas should help down the road. And of course providing enough backhaul is a big challenge.
Also, Clearwire's pre-WiMAX is nothing like capabilities of 802.16e mobile WiMAX that Sprint is doing. |
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VansHSI
join:2005-01-29
America | reply to ninjatutle
No, the wimax product is completely separate. |
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a333
A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Corona, NY | reply to v_lestat
Care to elaborate on that statement? |
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flyingjoey
join:2005-11-07
Jersey City, NJ
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·Verizon FIOS
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So those caps only apply to "broadband" cards.
I just noticed that sprint has new plans (talk & data).
It appears like the new caps do not apply to customers who have Phones with high speed capability e.g. the mogul/touch etc.
I keep looking at my account and for my data usage it reads unlimited, then again I've only used 365mb this month so far. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to tc1uscg
Who said anything about LTE? |
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Sprintuser
@omcastbusiness.net
| said by EPS :Who said anything about LTE? I did, thought I would toss that out since the only other U.S. 4G plans revolve around LTE.. Thought since he had such a grasp of WiMAX, he could shed some light on the not here yet for a long time LTE. Is that a problem?  |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | The problem is LTE doesn't exist- we can't really say how it will act in reality. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI | That's funny.. The way the media (and telcom's who are "planing" to deploy it, you would think it's been here for 10 years already. |
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