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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
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3G Radio?

News Flash: 3G will be phased out soon enough in favor of LTE as the carriers seek to recoup that spectrum for LTE services. Already 2G is on its last legs as there are published timetables for its shutdown. Granted you probably have until 2020 but I am sure 3G services will be drastically scaled back before then making performance suffer.

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3g is going no where soon it's obvious since why make a new chip just for 3g? that is just a waste of money unless there is another motive behind it. intel fully supports 3g outdated tech for remote disable/ wipe of computers

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3G chipsets like this are made because 2G is phasing out and there is plenty of use for IoT. Think of wearables that can also now be independent of bluetooth and other such uses. Samgung just announced a 3G wearable, Timex did too, Filip is a kids wearable, all 3G. Size matters in these devices and 3G is much more power efficient than LTE, plus LTE spectrrum is split over more bands, so you'd have to build an antenna to support 4 bands just for a US product rather than just 2 for 3G, or you can move to 4 to support world wide coverage, LTE starts to get real ridiculous to support world wide bands.
rradina
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Planned obsolescence so folks have to buy a new one in a few years.
dfxmatt
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Uh, wrong. Number of bands isn't what affects the antennas. It's the number of frequencies. 3G didn't function on only 2 frequency bands in the first place (more like 6), but LTE actually simplifies that by having global consistent LTE bands. The problem with the 3G ones is that they required actual separate chips, LTE doesn't.

It's not planned obsolescence either, though.