3 More Cities Get Sprint Revision A Faster speeds, lower latency... Sprint has brought their EV-DO Revision A network upgrades to three more cities: Las Vegas, Milwaukee and Seattle. Twenty-one cities will be upgraded before the end of the year. From the horse's mouth: "Seattle is among the first 21 markets where Sprint will roll out EV-DO Revision A this year with coverage expected to reach more than 40 million people. Sprint Power Vision users in these markets should experience significantly faster average upload speeds of 300-400 kbps (compared with 50-70 kbps of current EV-DO networks). Average download speeds should also increase to 450–800 kbps from 400-700 kbps." While the faster speeds are obviously nice, the real benefit to Revision A is the significantly reduced latency, which in upgraded markets should be somewhere around 50ms. Many first generation EVDO users report a latency range of 200ms to 500ms, even higher in saturated markets. We recently compared EVDO service from Verizon Wireless and Sprint. We gave the current competitive edge to Sprint because of faster Revision A adoption and a less restrictive EULA.
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| ....... VZ needs to change there EULA. But Vz has alot more coverage area to upgrade then Sprint does. Kudos for sprint.
Could be to the point that VZ has something up there shirt getting ready to come out remember when FIOS came out we all where like WOW. I think VZ has something going on right now if you ask me. They are watching the testing over seas to find out which is a better system to use. What you ask, faster speeds like over in Asia running what was it 30 mbps. (correct me if im wrong)
Just my .02 in this | |
|  | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: ....... said by hayabusa3303:VZ needs to change there EULA. But Vz has alot more coverage area to upgrade then Sprint does. Kudos for sprint. I always heard it as VZ has more square miles of EVDO, and Sprint has more cities (markets) with EVDO. Im in Queens NYC, but strangly I can get Sprint EVDO but not Verizon EVDO at my house. | |
| | | | | Re: ....... Too far away from a cell tower? strange | |
| | | | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: ....... The VZ cell towers around me dont have EVDO, I get 5 bars on 1x, zero to 1 bar on EVDO (when I force my phone onto EVDO), its hell for me since my phone (Moto E815) constantly sits on a unusable EVDO signal in my neighborhood, I get 0 bars, then it switches to 1x after 1-3 minutes and gets 5 bars. I live in Jamaica Estates. | |
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 rawgerzIn Debt we trustPremium
join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA | Rev. A latency quote:
While the faster speeds are obviously nice, the real benefit to Revision A is the significantly reduced latency, which in upgraded markets should be somewhere around 50ms. Many first generation EVDO users report a latency range of 200ms to 500ms; even higher in saturated markets.
Someone know an article or press release where this comes from? I haven't read anywhere else about the latencies being lower. | |
| | | | RevA does have better latency RevA has latency that can go as low as 50-80ms if near the tower. A demo was posted on evdoforums.com. Rev0 latency is about 130-150ms best case, up to 400ms+. Of course RevA could be over 200ms if not near tower or lots of obstructions.
Sprint covers over 170m pops with EVDO RevA/0 and will have 200m by end of year. Verizon is only in the 150s with Rev0 only. | |
|  MarkyDPremium
join:2002-08-20
Oklahoma City, OK | wow. Yet, El Paso, Tx...a city of almost a million people...still does not have rev 0 EVDO.
Horse crap. | |
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