HSPA+ is true, official, bona-fide 4G

[Applejuiced]

I'm on the fence. Fact is, when I visit family I'm stuck on Edge. Those same areas have Verizon 3G coverage. BUT, getting an LTE phone will probably be the holy grail for me. So I'll most likely hold off jumping until they have LTE.

I'm just watching the situation closely.

I hear you, LTE will be sweet.
Assuming they deploy it quick in your area.
Im really interested on how it will go also and hope it shakes AT&T to respond with maybe pricing and coverage improvements.

 

[Geckotek]

I hear you, LTE will be sweet.
Assuming they deploy it quick in your area.
Im really interested on how it will go also and hope it shakes AT&T to respond with maybe pricing and coverage improvements.

That's whats odd, Dallas gets these things early usually. We were one of the original TDMA test markets (garble "can you hear me now" garble) and we are already covered by LTE. Don't understand why my AT&T data speed is so blah. Perhaps they are spending all their money on the suburbs (where I'll eventually go to die).

 

[Applejuiced]

That's whats odd, Dallas gets these things early usually. We were one of the original TDMA test markets (garble "can you hear me now" garble) and we are already covered by LTE. Don't understand why my AT&T data speed is so blah. Perhaps they are spending all their money on the suburbs (where I'll eventually go to die).

My guess would be network congestion with lots of clients.
Dallas is a pretty big city.

 

[jav6454]

That's whats odd, Dallas gets these things early usually. We were one of the original TDMA test markets (garble "can you hear me now" garble) and we are already covered by LTE. Don't understand why my AT&T data speed is so blah. Perhaps they are spending all their money on the suburbs (where I'll eventually go to die).

The freaking backhaul... AT&T is spending their money on their network, but on the wireless portion of it to have something to show on the screen of a cellphone.

However, they are not wisely doing the concurrent upgrades to the backhaul that feeds the towers... hence slow speeds. In New Orleans, the upgrade to 7.2Mb/s is ready, but I only see 3-4Mb/s where as markets with the backhaul ready see 5-6Mb/s.

 

[zephxiii]

The freaking backhaul... AT&T is spending their money on their network, but on the wireless portion of it to have something to show on the screen of a cellphone.

However, they are not wisely doing the concurrent upgrades to the backhaul that feeds the towers... hence slow speeds. In New Orleans, the upgrade to 7.2Mb/s is ready, but I only see 3-4Mb/s where as markets with the backhaul ready see 5-6Mb/s.

How do you it's just not general traffic as well(on the air interface) that is cutting down on the speeds? On a single channel it requires 66.66% of that channel to be UNUSED for you to get the full 7.2mbps and do mind those are with ideal signal quality situations. Being in an overlapping area of cells is not ideal. It only takes 1 other 7.2 user that is in a large transfer to knock you off that 7.2mbps horse. This is not even considering all of the other voice/small data (email checks, web page loads etc.)/SMS signaling that is eating resources.

The main issue with AT&T and having so many 3G users and getting those fast speeds are 1. Channel interference from neighboring cells and devices 2. Traffic from a huge subscriber base.

There are way too many variables to consider than to just claim it is lack of backhaul.