So if someone wants to stay with GSM phones for LTE, which carrier is faster? ATT or TMO?
Only one GSM carrier has LTE right now, so your decision is rather simple.
people are making way too much out of that video. people are pulling down in the 20s right now.
sprint is supposedly building its network in such a way that converting to LTE/R10 is fairly simple, whereas vzw and att will need to rebuild much of their network infrastructure.
So if someone wants to stay with GSM phones for LTE, which carrier is faster? ATT or TMO?
from what i've read sprint is rolling out with R9 as opposed to cellco and at&t which went with R8, and that the R8 equipment will require significant overhaul to move to R10. maybe that's wrong, but it's what i've read.uhhhh..... and do you think their infrastructure vendors are any different? It's slim pickings out there if you want to purchase eNodeB/MME/SGW/PGW. No one vendor is even close to correctly implementing R8, let alone a future release.
iow, people are bouncing off the rev limiters on sprint right now as there's about 10 users in the entire metro and speeds will decrease when there's more users. and 5x5 is inherently less overall bandwidth at the cell site than 10x10, which can't be as readily corrected for by having more densely packed towers as some might have you think (which may not be more densely packed at all). of course, sprint having roughly half of cellco's or att's subscriber base also plays into it.Also in 5 mHz you have 300 subcarriers per millisecond. given a normal cyclic prefix, we fit 14 OFDM symbols per carrier.
300 X 14 = 4200
Now assuming 64 QAM, we get 6 bits per symbol:
6 X 4200 = 25200, or 25.2 Mbps
So you have just hit channel saturation on those "20" speed tests.
Now the argument is "cell density" which is hogwash. All other carriers will be doing a 1 for 1 overlay, as eNodeB's a far cheaper than the alternatives. Not only that, no vendor is supporting Inter Carrier Interference Cancellation, so they will still have to deal with the fact that every cell (sector) interferes with it's neighbors. IC-IC chops up the already sparse spectrum anyways.
LTE is GSM (kinda sorta), and TMO doesn't have LTE
therefore, the answer to your question is verizon wireless
Are you sure? So I can take an LTE phone I purchased in Europe, Canada, or Asia and it'll work on Verizon's LTE network not unlike ATT?
They're very strict when it comes to devices. It won't work.
So other area won't work unless you get an international phone with their plan which is expensive as hell
I doubt they have 4G globally off Verizon.
Are you sure? So I can take an LTE phone I purchased in Europe, Canada, or Asia and it'll work on Verizon's LTE network not unlike ATT?
ok, so doesnt this completely blow the cover off cable companies who say its 'difficult' to provide 'high speed' internet that tops 30mbs? and that they 'must' enforce data caps to save bandwidth?
now we have the wireless companies beating them. im sorry, that is just a joke. we cant even get close to hardwire speeds off wifi, and that is a much shorter distance.
Are you sure? So I can take an LTE phone I purchased in Europe, Canada, or Asia and it'll work on Verizon's LTE network not unlike ATT?
LTE fragmentation is about to begin. You haven't seen anything yet.Are you sure? So I can take an LTE phone I purchased in Europe, Canada, or Asia and it'll work on Verizon's LTE network not unlike ATT?