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AT&T Prepares to Launch LTE 4G Network in 5 Cities This Summer
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Wanna bet? iPhone sales in this coming quarter are going to be blowout as usual.
Why does this need to turn into city-bashing?
There are lots of reasons to roll 4G out to different areas, civic pride not included.
You must not come up to San Francisco or the East Bay much - because it is Terrible...TERRIBLE. I support 1000 folks w/ them and they are poor poor poor for making calls....
LTE adoption is likely to be very quick in affluent urban areas like LA and NY. Last thing you want is a network rollout to debut with bad press.
Maybe 'density' would be a better parameter to consider when testing cellular speeds. Maybe not.
But if so, the top 10 U.S. cities by density are as follows:
New York, NY
Paterson, NJ
San Francisco, CA
Jersey City, NJ
Cambridge, MA
Daly City, CA
Boston, MA
Inglewood, CA
Santa Ana, CA
El Monte, CA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
Chicago(3rd largest in the US) and Houston are not major cities? You must be joking. Atlanta(largest in the Southeast) is also a major city.
Detroit used to say the same thing.
Everybody Loves Raymond played a bigger role on television than Arrested Development. It doesn't mean it's worth watching.
4G service is just compensation for being stuck in Texas.
I use 4g for tethering to my laptops. I have a Sprint 4g device I use when I need to get out of the lab to stay sane. It is not that much faster than my ATT devices, but it gives you free unlimited bandwidth when in 4G.
ATT 4G should be much faster than Sprint.
NFC should be safe. It will only connect to one device at a time for financial transactions it will ask for a password on your device before it performs a transaction and it will have some kind of conformation code on the vending device to inform you that you are connected to the correct device. I am sure it will also use some form of public/private key encryption.
How many times to we need to keep saying this, Skunkwood North Dakota is not a major metro area.
I would not brag about one day. When you can get four days of heavy use per charge, please come back.
I think they are doing Chicago for the pizza. Chicago is also a great city to make money from gang violence. You can make a fortune sweeping up the brass after a big gun fight.
And Los Angeles and California in general are the gang capital of the world. Step a few blocks away from USC campus if you don't believe me.
Ever heard of a little company called Apple? You should send Steve Jobs an email, I'm sure he'll move the whole company to Chicago as soon as he hears that it's a bigger part of the economy than the bay area.
Chicago has it's good points but there is a reason Steve Jobs would never consider living there.
San Francisco is a beautiful city, but it not worth much in the big scheme of things.
I wouldn't be surprised if AT&T's abysmal performance in SF and NYC is because they ignore this very sort of thing. "It works great in a flat, spread out mess like Houston... it's probably fine everywhere".
Apple is a "little" company in the in the big scheme of business. Just because you worship them don't get delusional.
Like I said, you should let Steve Jobs know. I'm sure he'll very quickly move the company to that hotbed of technology and innovation known as Chicago.
You should let the stock market know. Last I checked they had one of the three biggest market caps in the world.
But yeah, they're just a small time company. No one buys Apple products.
Agreed - LTE in the bay area is outstanding. Night and day compared to AT&T service, and it's faster than some people's cablemodems.
Let's just hope this stays true once the vast majority of phones use LTE. I mean AT&T 3G is awesome when no one else is on your tower.
From being a PM on the clear/sprint 4G roll-out 2 years ago it takes a lot to get a city online. you have to deal with landlords who own property in which towers sit. you have to deal with city governments. and from what i heard from some of my contractors that would install for me ATT like to use just one company as there installation team so that could be part of the limited city's. How true that is IDK? I do know philly, NYC, are the two hardest city's to build in though.
No, but it's a short walk from my house to his.
I grew up in the midwest and northeast - and never want to deal with the winter weather again...