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  #427014 14-Jan-2011 08:41
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I would have thought he 700 ~ 1Gig would have been a way better band for LTE. At the 2300 ~ 2600 the distance traveled and building penetration will be bad. At bit like 3G on the 2100 band..




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  #427017 14-Jan-2011 08:44
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old3eyes: I would have thought he 700 ~ 1Gig would have been a way better band for LTE. At the 2300 ~ 2600 the distance traveled and building penetration will be bad. At bit like 3G on the 2100 band..


I agree.

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  #427021 14-Jan-2011 08:46
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old3eyes: I would have thought he 700 ~ 1Gig would have been a way better band for LTE. At the 2300 ~ 2600 the distance traveled and building penetration will be bad. At bit like 3G on the 2100 band..

That's why a lot of telcos are (or will) holding back until they can use that spectrum, before they embark on another expensive capex exercise.



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  #427037 14-Jan-2011 09:26
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sbiddle:

Mobile in the USA is a joke. People just don't realise how much better things are everywhere else in the world.



Slightly perjorative statement IMHO.  With two main carriers each with about 93M customers and a fairly large geography to handle, there are bound to be issues.

While I would say the CES experience was terrible (I and my friend had ATT, T-Mobile and Verizon) in terms of data, how many operators could handle 120K people descending into one city with about 90% with their smart phones all trying to access the 3G network. It just doesn't happen.

But outside of that I loved the freedom of being able to call anybody at anytime and not worry about whether it they were on my network, they were landline or cell (not that you could tell) and having friends not worry about calling me. 

My plan (and this isn't an attractive as a true contract plan) was US$30 for 1500 minutes of calls/SMS a month and 30MB data. There was no way I was going to reach that minute allocation but the Internet was easily exceeded. So each day I would purchase a day pass for US$1.45 which gave me unlimited for the day.

Since I was using Google Voice (I guess Skype would have been an option except you need a broadband connection) I was able to call home for 2c/minute and all local SMS was free because they were being routed through GV.

I put my daughter on a ATT prepaid plan which was no charges for any day she didn't make calls or send SMS or receive calls and if she did, then $2 for that day which gave her unlimited calls/SMS for the day. As a confirmed texter here she soon found the freedom just to call so much easier.

I think my daughter experienced a few dropped calls on ATT in the Bay Area where they are known to be bad (which is ironic given their largest partner Apple is in Cupertino) but I had no problems with T-Mobile (who only have about 30M customers). But when she was in NY she found call quality and reliability just fine.

2D here are heading down that way with their plans but we have a long way to go before we have cellular freedom.

One downside to this no differentiation between land and cellular. I started to get telemarketing calls on my cellphone! Slightly annoying but a minor issue really.




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