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thegeek
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Better than Satellite

The only problem is getting the signal in a rural area. You'd think Verizon would wait to deploy this till there was actual coverage in rural areas.
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better than satellite? Kind of like saying herpes is better than AIDS. At least satellite doesn't charge $10 per GB overage.

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said by 88615298:

Kind of like saying herpes is better than AIDS.

Herpes is better than AIDS.
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said by morbo:

said by 88615298:

Kind of like saying herpes is better than AIDS.

Herpes is better than AIDS.

I wouldn't want either. That's the point
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said by thegeek:

The only problem is getting the signal in a rural area. You'd think Verizon would wait to deploy this till there was actual coverage in rural areas.

Apparently you haven't been to Birmingham, AL. We have a huge amount of rural, vast nothing covered with rural 4G LTE, places where people can't even get a landline.

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But given a "gun to your head" choice?

This certainly isn't an offering I would go for if I wanted to watch days upon days of "Downfall" parody videos on YouTube.

But, if I manage to own that cabin in the mountains I've always wanted some day, and spend 4 or so months a year up there, this would be a good offering for keeping up with my business online as opposed to dropping off the face of the earth for 25% of the year.

Oh, and since I've had neither Herpes or Aids, I can't attest to either.

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That's the idea that you wouldn't want either, broadband options are abysmal in rural areas, but I sure would prefer LTE with low latency and strict caps over satelite with high latency and low caps.

It's the better of two evils.

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Oh, and since I've had neither Herpes or Aids, I can't attest to either.

If you have cold sore like 80% of the population in this country does, you have Herpes Simplex 1.

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I live in a rural area outside of OKC and I regularly get 40Mbit/sec downstream on my Verizon LTE USB modem. By comparison, my AT&T Uverse is only 18Mbit/sec.

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That comparison was inappropriate.

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You can hit your cap and run up massive overages very quickly that way.....
NYC Girl
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said by thegeek:

The only problem is getting the signal in a rural area. You'd think Verizon would wait to deploy this till there was actual coverage in rural areas.

Question: is this the same as FIOS or are they referring to LTE as in cell / smartphone wireless Internet? Because the article mentions "residential LTE". Just curious.
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said by NYC Girl:

Question: is this the same as FIOS or are they referring to LTE as in cell / smartphone wireless Internet? Because the article mentions "residential LTE". Just curious.

It is not in any way related to FIOS, although they may try to brand it that way. It's just a way to leverage the mobile broadband LTE towers and backhaul links they've already installed to serve fixed location residential locations that don't have other options.

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LTE (long term evolution) doesn't really mean anything. but is wireless internet
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Thank you!!