To that end, things aren't looking great for Sprint's new 4G network at launch, it is promising just 6-8 Megabits per second download speed (burstable to 25Mbps) and 2-3 Megabits per second upload. While these speeds are certainly faster than the Now Network's 3G alternative, they aren't exactly what consumers may have expected from a new LTE network.
All of that being said, Sprint's LTE network is an improvement over both its 3G and WiMax offerings (the latter of which will be phased out by 2015), and the Now Network is already planning to up the ante at some point in 2013 with LTE Advanced.
That's well into "fast enough not to matter" for most.
Sprint can advertise unlimited to counter that.I would tend to agree, if its consistently in those ranges. Thats plenty fast for streaming music, NetFlix, YouTube, Hulu, etc.
But, from a marketing perspective, its something that will hurt Sprint when their competitors can advertise double their speeds and gain paying customers from it.
Sprint can advertise unlimited to counter that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaZjiUA1Uco
I'd take unlimited 6Mbps over 30Mbps with 2GB data caps any day of the week.
As long as Sprint keeps their unlimited data plans, it's good value.
If Sprint gets rid of their unlimited data plans however...
Is this new network coming to a real city like New York or staying in the boondocks for a couple of years before making it here?
Sprint can advertise unlimited to counter that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaZjiUA1Uco
I'd take unlimited 6Mbps over 30Mbps with 2GB data caps any day of the week.
As long as Sprint keeps their unlimited data plans, it's good value.
If Sprint gets rid of their unlimited data plans however...
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't think 3g is really too slow most of the time. I bought my droid bionic thinking about how amazing 4GLTE would be, and then I hardly noticed it. And now i'm back on "regular 3g" with my galaxy nexus and I don't even notice the difference.
This.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.
Verizon 3G is slow.Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't think 3g is really too slow most of the time. I bought my droid bionic thinking about how amazing 4GLTE would be, and then I hardly noticed it. And now i'm back on "regular 3g" with my galaxy nexus and I don't even notice the difference.
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.
Watch this video guys, I was just reading up on Sprints LTE and found out they released their new network today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMrrocVllLA
the kid is kind of annoying but its worth the watch for those insane speeds, trust me when I say insane.
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.
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.