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We won't see LTE anytime soon
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kudos:4 | said by S_engineer:The Deathstar continue to milk something...?...come on, they wouldn't do that. We won't see LTE anytime soon It gets to be a simple cost calculation. If they are going to LTE anyway within 2 years, it will be cheaper to just go to LTE and skip the step to faster speeds by modifying existing technology. And the main cost isn't the hardware itself; it is the costs of techs to do 2 significant upgrades. Staff is limited and costs are high to climb those towers and switch out electronics.
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| said by Romney2012:said by S_engineer:The Deathstar continue to milk something...?...come on, they wouldn't do that. We won't see LTE anytime soon It gets to be a simple cost calculation. If they are going to LTE anyway within 2 years, it will be cheaper to just go to LTE and skip the step to faster speeds by modifying existing technology. And the main cost isn't the hardware itself; it is the costs of techs to do 2 significant upgrades. Staff is limited and costs are high to climb those towers and switch out electronics. That's what T-Mobile is doing. Go T-MOBILE!
Skipping much of 3G deployment to focus on brining 4G.
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New York, NY | said by Gbcue:said by Romney2012:said by S_engineer:The Deathstar continue to milk something...?...come on, they wouldn't do that. We won't see LTE anytime soon It gets to be a simple cost calculation. If they are going to LTE anyway within 2 years, it will be cheaper to just go to LTE and skip the step to faster speeds by modifying existing technology. And the main cost isn't the hardware itself; it is the costs of techs to do 2 significant upgrades. Staff is limited and costs are high to climb those towers and switch out electronics. That's what T-Mobile is doing. Go T-MOBILE! Skipping much of 3G deployment to focus on brining 4G. I have heard no news at all about Tmobile (usa) even talking about 4G yet. Do you have any links?
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1 edit | said by wifi4milez:I have heard no news at all about Tmobile (usa) even talking about 4G yet. Do you have any links? »www.von.com/news/verizon-has-amb···ule.html
The last sentence.
»www.telegeography.com/cu/article···id=25979
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
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New York, NY | Not saying I disagree, however the first link says the parent of Tmobile USA (Tmobile) is going straight to LTE. This could mean the European markets only, but they dont clarify. The second link is fairly clear, but its from 2008 so thats my only issue with it. I havent seen any recent news discussing Tmo' USA is the only reason I bring this up. If you find anything else on the matter you should email it as news to the the site, I think a lot of people would be interested to hear about it.
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Not so simple. Isn't Verizon also going to LTE? if that's the case, you don't want to have them on your network first or using phones that are faster than your own.
1. No one in the USA at least has a LTE phone, and won't for 2-3 years.
2. Metro areas are dying for faster speeds NOW with existing 3G phones which may relieve congestion. Back hauling will be cheaper since there is higher density, and towers could be visited twice quickly. Fix the metro areas so that you keep your millions of iPhone customers who are your bread and butter accounts with the $30/mo data plans +$50 phone plan and make them happy- there are lots of phones with better than 1.5mbs 3G already in use. If you want to keep them once someone else sells something as compelling as iPhones. (I don't have a iPhone, but I get almost a mb on my att phone tethered.)
3. Less populous areas never got 3G in the firs place and certainly don't have LTE phones but may have 3G phones. Maybe rolling LTE out there first would be beneficial since they will be 'ready' when LTE is available and you'll have much better coverage in the end.
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