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ritchblasi
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ritchblasi

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Wireless Growth Claims

Regardless of what stats are used the fact of the matter is that there is limited spectrum available to handle the content-rich applications and services used by mobile customers. This will continue to grow (pick a number out of the air) as it has on the wired side of the house -- meaning more peple will access video, and soon use the same mobile data networks for their voice calling (mVoIP or VoLTE) - think Skype and Google Voice. If you've ever used them on a 3G or the "so called" 4G networks, you can go through your data plans quickly because they are bandwidth hogs. That eats up spectrum. No matter whether it's AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile or Sprint, they all need spectrum and are all facing quality and capacity issues based on increased data usage. Numbers can be whatever anyone tells you - they can use them and mold them in any fashion they want. In reality, what it comes down to is the customers experience -- and that will change for the worse if more spectrum isn't made available through auctions.
sonicmerlin
join:2009-05-24
Cleveland, OH

sonicmerlin

Member

said by ritchblasi :

No matter whether it's AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile or Sprint, they all need spectrum and are all facing quality and capacity issues based on increased data usage.

Says who? Where's your evidence of this?

Have you ever used T-Mobile's HSPA+ 42 service? It's ridiculously fast. Or Verizon and AT&T's LTE? It beats out basic cable.

Or Sprint's Network Vision-renovated cell sites? 3G speeds are wonderful in those places.

Where is your evidence that we're facing a crunch?

Paladin
Sage of the light
join:2001-08-17
Chester, IL

Paladin

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Where is Karl's?