I need it for my HTC Evo to roam on their tower. I tried every PRL and all I get is 1x
(I live in rural area)
Thought some of you might, or might not, like to read this:
http://www.slashgear.com/sprint-tea...n-as-2013-in-clearwire-negotiations-03137666/
elegantai said:
Thought some of you might, or might not, like to read this:
http://www.slashgear.com/sprint-tea...n-as-2013-in-clearwire-negotiations-03137666/
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Can someone explain what would happen if they do decide to go with LTE? Would that mean that places without 4g currently at the time of contract will have to wait now for LTE 4g network to be set up. Currently, I am in Michigan with no 4g and it sucks because I have had my Evo since last year waiting for 4g. Now all of a sudden Verizon and Tmobile have 4g in my city. WTF!!!
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Can someone explain what would happen if they do decide to go with LTE? Would that mean that places without 4g currently at the time of contract will have to wait now for LTE 4g network to be set up. Currently, I am in Michigan with no 4g and it sucks because I have had my Evo since last year waiting for 4g. Now all of a sudden Verizon and Tmobile have 4g in my city. WTF!!!
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If it were to happen, which I still doubt (sprint has too much invested in wimax), it would take at least a few years. And during that time there would be a switchover from wimax phones to lte, so people probably wouldnt be affected too much.
bsmoove386 said:
Can someone explain what would happen if they do decide to go with LTE? Would that mean that places without 4g currently at the time of contract will have to wait now for LTE 4g network to be set up. Currently, I am in Michigan with no 4g and it sucks because I have had my Evo since last year waiting for 4g. Now all of a sudden Verizon and Tmobile have 4g in my city. WTF!!!
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Well, Verizon doesn't have to deal with Clearwire, which is Sprint's WiMax provider. They are the reason that WiMax hasn't spread as much as it should. And TMobile's "4G" isn't even 4G, its just a beefed up 3G network. I know that Sprint's 4G towers can be "converted" into LTE towers by just a simple firmware update, but I am pretty sure the hardware in the phones that support WiMax can't be changed. I may be wrong though. I believe that's why Sprint is now releasing smartphones without 4G support, because of the uncertainty of their deal with Clearwire. Again, this is all just what I think, but honestly, I'd rather have TMobile's "4G" than have to deal with LTE. I really REALLY do not want to own an LTE device. I really hope that Clearwire can fix itself and start deploying more towers, because then we won't have to deal with LTE. But we'll see what happens.
From what I have read, once Sprint's infrastructure clean up happens they will have 800 mHz spectrum leftover from the iDen network. This could go to LTE.
Tuffgong4 said:
From what I have read, once Sprint's infrastructure clean up happens they will have 800 mHz spectrum leftover from the iDen network. This could go to LTE.
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Didn't the DoD buy the iDen network a while back? I thought they were supposed take over it after Sprint phased it out.
Tuffgong4 said:
From what I have read, once Sprint's infrastructure clean up happens they will have 800 mHz spectrum leftover from the iDen network. This could go to LTE.
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That's a no go at 800mhz for Sprint. The reason is because they only have 14mhz of spectrum there. LTE needs 20mhz of spectrum (I think there's something with TD-LTE that can get by on 15mhz, but they're still short there).
From what I've read, 800 mhz will go CDMA with PTT. If they wanted, they could use 10mhz of it for LTE, but would need to go to 1900mhz for any additional spectrum they would need. Because of this, it would make more sense to move their current CDMA service to 800mhz and install LTE at 1900mhz.
If you haven't checked the clear coverage map yet you may have 4g in your city. The signal is still weak here but I have picked it up at WSU's campus.
I was wondering what kind of speeds you guys are getting with AT&T's "4G" here in suburban Chicago. I get 3.10 UP and 0.57 Down at best. I have a Inspire.
Irish Enigma said:
I was wondering what kind of speeds you guys are getting with AT&T's "4G" here in suburban Chicago. I get 3.10 UP and 0.57 Down at best. I have a Inspire.
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Its pretty bad if you UP speed beat your DOWN speeds by that much!
My wife just upgraded to an HTC Sensation 4g (excellent phone!) but it wasn't until after we re-upped for 2yrs that we found out that most of Maine (we live in the Augusta area) is still 2G!!
I'm not greedy, I'd love to have 3G. Does anyone know if/when T-mo will roll out 3G (technology they started rolling out over 4 yeas ago!!) will be coming to central Maine?
sixteen2nd said:
My wife just upgraded to an HTC Sensation 4g (excellent phone!) but it wasn't until after we re-upped for 2yrs that we found out that most of Maine (we live in the Augusta area) is still 2G!!
I'm not greedy, I'd love to have 3G. Does anyone know if/when T-mo will roll out 3G (technology they started rolling out over 4 yeas ago!!) will be coming to central Maine?
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I know they have 3G in Portland and small parts of Sanford, that's about it. Basically edge speeds in the whole state. Absolutely terrible
sixteen2nd said:
My wife just upgraded to an HTC Sensation 4g (excellent phone!) but it wasn't until after we re-upped for 2yrs that we found out that most of Maine (we live in the Augusta area) is still 2G!!
I'm not greedy, I'd love to have 3G. Does anyone know if/when T-mo will roll out 3G (technology they started rolling out over 4 yeas ago!!) will be coming to central Maine?
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Unless they plan on refarming their existing 1900mHz band to HSPA+ in your area, I don't see an upgrade to HSDPA (3G) or (+) (3.5G) in your area as a priority. T-Mobile is mostly focused on refarming the 1900mHz band so they can use their existing AWS spectrum (in this case 1700/2100mHz) to LTE-A
In other words....Don't hold your breath.
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