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iPhone 5 Likely to Support AT&T '4G', Widening Speed Gap Over Verizon

MyTouch 4G T-Mobile San Diego, CA Unlimited data $25/month no contract got the phone on craigslist for $200 :)
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brownpaw said:
Sorry, but can someone explain to me why anyone gives a **** about 4G? I consider myself a power user and my Verizon Droid X (got tired of waiting for the Verizon iPhone...) has never left me waiting for a page to load, or a video to buffer, etc. Downloads are plenty fast, too.
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You never know what tomorrow will bring -- your 3G service might be fast enough to cover today's needs, but why handicap yourself for what tomorrow might offer?
 
AT&T notes that it is currently seeing "4G" speeds of up to 6 Mbps for HSPA+ devices connected to cell towers utilizing the enhanced backhaul connections needed to support such speeds.
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Have never seen that anywhere with AT&T. Lucky to get 1Mbp down. Usually it's less than half that.
 
Had Verizon for years. Swapped to AT&T strictly for speed in comparison to 3G on Verizon. LTE won't be near me until mid-late 2012. I will stay with AT&T until then. Coverage is good in my area. If T-Mo can say they have 4G, why not AT&T?
 
Ultrafied said:
Had Verizon for years. Swapped to AT&T strictly for speed in comparison to 3G on Verizon. LTE won't be near me until mid-late 2012. I will stay with AT&T until then. Coverage is good in my area. If T-Mo can say they have 4G, why not AT&T?
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If you're actually in Riverside, it's completely possible AT&T LTE will reach you by the end of 2012 anyway.
 
The differences between LTE and HSPA+ are negligible. T-Mobile just doubled their HSPA+ speeds to 42 MB/s.

What everyone's missing is that Verizon will be at another disadvantage because the iPhone 5 is rumored not to support LTE for Verizon's network until the 2012 release.

Therefore, depending on where you live, the iphone 5 will have much faster data speeds on ATT.

Bummer.
 
I'd like to be able to make phone calls on it :). Seriously the drop calls on this thing is ******.

Also maybe an easy mode so my brain dead parents can use it:D
 
Just my little hope: let it be a dual-sim supported device....

It's so hard having to wear both an iPhone (private phone) and another phone for the job.... putting both sim's into my iphone would rock my world.

p.s. Yeah,.. I know: samsung has phones that do support it... but I only want a iPhone Dual-Sim.
 
Questions is, how much faster is this in real-life usage? In my area, Verizon is just as fast as AT&T, sometimes even faster and they have better signal.

I think I'm still going to switch to Verizon when the new iPhone comes out. I've had my iPhone replaced multiple times due to signal issues but it seems it's AT&T, not the phone. Signal drops when I'm indoors, at places like Sears and Macy's. Extremely frustrating. Verizon, here I come.
 
I hope that they will announce iPhone 5 during WWDC. As for 4G, it better be everywhere and not only in some areas.
 
Right now I get 1.2 mbps at very best w/ 300-400 ms latency. Will hspa+ be faster? If it will, then I don't care what it's called. The name is meaningless.
 
SeniorGato1 said:
The differences between LTE and HSPA+ are negligible. T-Mobile just doubled their HSPA+ speeds to 42 MB/s.
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T-Mo did just doubled the theoretical top speed of their HSPA+ speed in SOME markets to 42mbps. Too bad they have 0 (zero) phones that will do those speeds.

Galaxy S 4G can do 21mbps, while the G2x, G2, and MT4G can only do 14mbps. And since those are the theoretical limit of the modem, actual speeds will be much less. Contrast that to people using Verizon's LTE and seeing real speeds of 20+mbps.
 
D3lta said:
Questions is, how much faster is this in real-life usage? In my area, Verizon is just as fast as AT&T, sometimes even faster and they have better signal.

I think I'm still going to switch to Verizon when the new iPhone comes out. I've had my iPhone replaced multiple times due to signal issues but it seems it's AT&T, not the phone. Signal drops when I'm indoors, at places like Sears and Macy's. Extremely frustrating. Verizon, here I come.
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Read my post on page 2. Verizon, for me at least, is FASTER for data than ATT due to lower latency and more consistent connections.
 
GENTLEB said:
This is so funny .... I'll take Verizons "slow" 1Mbps CDMA 3G over AT&T's EDGE 2G any day of the Week/Month/Year.

^^^ That's the bottom line here

I love the "fall back" to HSPA+ ROFL in reality it's a fall back to EDGE
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You can't be serious? I download at a shade under 400kb/s with AT&T's 3G. That is far greater than what Verizon provides. Verizon's 3G is slow by any measure of the word.

There's a reason why AT&T customers aren't seeing a huge difference between 3G and HSPA+. It's because there isn't one. AT&T 3G already gets 3Mbps, so to get 6Mbps really isn't much of a difference for normal applications.

And if your point was 3G isn't available anywhere because you see the maps on the TV commericals, well then you are just clueless about AT&T. AT&T gets 3G service anywhere there are more than 20 people that live in a town.
 
GENTLEB said:
I love the "fall back" to HSPA+ ROFL in reality it's a fall back to EDGE
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I'd love to fall back to EDGE, because that would mean I am no longer stuck on EDGE all the time. I live in a small town with no 3G, yet I pay over a hundred bucks a month for an unlimited plan. It really pisses me off when AT&T talks about 4G stuff when they deliver 2G. On top of that, we have ONE cell tower and when it fails, we get 0G. /rant
 
one word REVB ;)

I noticed when the CDMA iPhone launched it specifically mentioned supporting REVB EVDO data speeds over just REV A. As of right now Both Verizon and Sprint only support up to REV A data. Hopefully this will put pressure on both carriers to upgrade the 3G network speeds which from what I understand involves mostly a software update on the towers to begin with.
 
mrweirdo said:
one word REVB ;)

I noticed when the CDMA iPhone launched it specifically mentioned supporting REVB EVDO data speeds over just REV A. As of right now Both Verizon and Sprint only support up to REV A data. Hopefully this will put pressure on both carriers to upgrade the 3G network speeds which from what I understand involves mostly a software update on the towers to begin with.
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In most cases it is just a software update from what I understand. The real questions are coverage and backhaul.
 
srl7741 said:
That and you should not be able to run TV Ads claiming the same when you dont even have 4G anywhere in an entire State. People walk into a store buy a 4G phone and never think to ask if they even have 4G service. They find out later "It's Coming". Total farse and deceiving to the average consumer.

I have several people a week brag to me about their 4G smart device and I smile while telling them good job, we don't even have 4G anywhere in the entire State you moron.
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That reminds me of how Cici's Pizza is advertized here in Spokane, WA. There isn't one for over a thousand miles. The closest one is in freakin Las Vegas! WTF!

I'm still running on EDGE on my iPhone 3G. We have 3G here, but I like my battery. I don't even get data anyway, so it doesn't even really matter.
 
getting real fast speeds on att with iphone 4

Not bad in the Detroit / Chicago area.

3g faster than so-called "4"G.

how come i'm getting hspa+ speeds on iphone 4? :rolleyes:



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I won't consider an iPhone unless it's on LTE - or faster. Also, it can't be on AT&T.
 
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