Whose LTE network will take the hardest hit with an LTE iPhone

[rman726]

Verizon's coverage is so vast and widespread i doubt they will even be affected with the 5 on LTE. Whats the worst that could happen? My 12 mbps down to goto 10? Wow... Scary

Well considering you used to be able to get 30-40mbps, that's a pretty big loss of speed already. You'd better hope it's only a 2mbps loss...

 

[Dwalls90]

More than likely Verizon's. They have what, 8 million more customers than AT&T? AT&T also doesn't have the LTE coverage Verizon has. This will allow more customers to benefit from the LTE.

Of course the downside to this in general is that the LTE networks on both carriers will see much much more traffic in the coming months. Poor Android users will see degraded speeds.

Of course the good thing is AT&T's HSPA+ network will have less congestion.

8 million customers and also way more throughput on their LTE market let alone markets covered.

I would say Verizon will take the biggest hit, with all these people claiming they're jumping ship from AT&T.

Hehe, I hope most of them leave for Verizon, that will leave less congestion for me on AT&T. Of course it has to reach my area first.

Let's not forget that if we are considering iPhone users only, AT&T still has 2/3 of that market at least. So if that ratio upgrades, then AT&T, who has less LTE coverage and rollout, is certainly more "screwed."

Plus, if we're going by past experiences, AT&T has always had network issues.