Verizon's Galaxy S4 will be first to utilize faster LTE spectrum

[2298754]

They may make upgrades to heavily congested areas. But the vast majority of users won't see any tangible speed increase.

AWS is only going up in heavily congested areas right now, such as Detroit, Chi, LA, OKC, Boston, NYC, etc. There is no reason for AWS anywhere else.

There are reports of slow LTE speeds and unusable data in LA right now. I do agree that majority of users won't see any difference, but that's because they don't have an S4 or 928 to take advantage of AWS.

 

[nestafaria]

I'm going to have to agree with this. My brother lives in NoVA and my VZW mifi was dirt slow in the Tysons area and once I got into DC. AT&T was great everywhere.

Thirded. I was getting 85mbps on ATT late last year. I now get 5-6mbps on Verizon. It's awful. I'm just outside DC in Maryland.

 

[2298754]

Thirded. I was getting 85mbps on ATT late last year.

That is impossible. Max throughput on a 10x10 LTE network is about 73mbps

 

[lazard]

That is impossible. Max throughput on a 10x10 LTE network is about 73mbps

actually it's 85.7 mbps

 

[aneftp]

FYI. Verizon only really guarantees 5-12mpbs speeds for lte. That's what they consider acceceptable.