The Sorrow Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 4G is a MYTH! With all these cellular providers and wireless broadband trying to sell out their 802.16 4G service, i thought id take a bit of my time and start some conversation on it. Whats everyones opinions of the new HTC Thunderbolt's 4G and Clear's WiMax? Quote
The Sorrow Posted March 30, 2011 Author Posted March 30, 2011 I work for Clear tech support and 4G is... iffy at best. Its great on a one to one basis... but it can only support so much bandwidth. Im waiting for 802.16m Quote
Infiltrator Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 (edited) Can't wait for the National Broadband network construction here in Australia to be concluded. Back to the 4G Myth, does it offer any coverage increase at all, or is it only the speed that improves. Edited March 30, 2011 by Infiltrator Quote
dr0p Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 (edited) Sprint, AT&T, TMobile all really have 3.5G networks but Verizon has LTE which is a truly 4G network. That being said, you cram enough users (eg: large cities) onto a few towers and you'll probably have a hard time noticing the different between 3G and 4G. Edited March 30, 2011 by dr0p Quote
The Sorrow Posted March 30, 2011 Author Posted March 30, 2011 Basically 4G is a whole new network with its own towers etc. It is not even nation wide in the US yet. Quote
xtr3m3 Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/67xmzat This is all I know about 4g in the UK. It will start after the digital switchover is complete (when analogue tv will no longer exist :( ) Quote
The Sorrow Posted March 31, 2011 Author Posted March 31, 2011 We lost analog TV a year or two ago Quote
krew790 Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 my phone only texts and make phone calls; i dont not have any data with it, so im out of the loop and dont care when people go on about 4g on their phone. I feel it just 3g but they just change the 3 to a 4 and that was it no other change. Quote
dr0p Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Basically 4G is a whole new network with its own towers etc. It is not even nation wide in the US yet. Of course it's not nationwide. The US is huge. We don't even have 3G nationwide. It's in most of the major cities now though. Quote
The Sorrow Posted April 1, 2011 Author Posted April 1, 2011 Of course it's not nationwide. The US is huge. We don't even have 3G nationwide. It's in most of the major cities now though. Well no network can truly be nationwide. The only one that is even close is the internet and its not quite nation wide. However 3G is prominent enough to claim the 'nation wide' title. Quote
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