Future bandwidth 2+ years

[Rocketman]

http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/4g-defined-wimax-and-lte-dont-qualify-683

Though they aren't on sale yet, the two future technologies are on their way. IEEE 802.16m is expected to be ratified later this year, and the WiMax Forum plans to begin certifying products under its WiMax Release 2 specification in the fourth quarter of next year. Samsung has said its tests of pre-standard 802.16m equipment achieved a downstream speed of 330M bps. Though that was in a test setting with no other users competing for bandwidth, it still represents a big jump beyond today's WiMax, which typically gives individual users 3M bps to 6M bps, with bursts up to 10M bps, according to Clearwire. Verizon has demonstrated its LTE network at 5M bps to 12M bps in the real world.

So Wimax and LTE V1.0 are not considered "4G" by the experts.

Real mobile high bandwidth suitable for cloud computing is 2-3 years away.

Rocketman

 

[Woodcrest64]

I've seen here on Mac Rumors that the current prediction for the iPhone 5 is that it will not be 4G. We will end up waiting till 2012 when the standard is widely available.

I will say when the day comes when we get 50Mbps+ down and 25Mbps+ up across the entire country on our cell phones will be life changing in terms of the capabilities and content we can have access to.

 

[kdarling]

In the end, no one cares what the ITU says is 4G or not.

They're the same United Nations agency that a decade ago claimed EDGE and 1XRTT were 3G... are you kidding us?... and later had to admit that no one else used that label for them. Not even the carriers.

Now they're trying to stay relevant with talks about 4G labels, and again they'll be proven wrong.

It's just a label, and the overwhelming mass of world customer perception and sales ads will steamroll over their attempted definition.

 

[Don Kosak]

Whoa, nice.

1 Gb per second when stationary, 100 Mb per second when highly mobile!

I'm guessing the iPhone 6 or iPhone 7 will be a must-have device once the Carriers roll out these networks.

Puts a whole new spin on iPad version 3 (or iPad 4) as well... Sitting in a coffee shop with 1Gbps access to 10 Terabytes of Cloud storage will be sweet.