Ha ha! Please please please, DO NOT automatically associate those of us in the Philly area with that guy. I shudder at the thought. Besides, I think he's from the Scranton area anyway, which might as well be in an entirely different state.
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Why the he11 did AT&T skip Philadelphia with LTE
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Ha ha! Please please please, DO NOT automatically associate those of us in the Philly area with that guy. I shudder at the thought. Besides, I think he's from the Scranton area anyway, which might as well be in an entirely different state.
Point, implication, let's not split hairs. I'm sure he knows that it ISN'T by population, otherwise we'd already have LTE. His IMPLICATION was that perhaps it SHOULD go by population, or at least be a strong factor. I agree, not because we're more important, but because more people means more network congestion, which means slower speeds, which LTE would alleviate, hopefully.
Really now, it's not that hard.
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How can you say I didn't make any point? Obviously it isn't rolled out by population maybe that's the point I was trying to make.
HSPA+ is more than suitable for a smartphone or tablet. You won't even notice a speed difference with LTE if you have a good HSPA+ connection. Of course if the ping is lower then the page will load faster. I'm sure Philly has HSPA+ so you'll go be good to go and have better battery life.
While I'm anxious to see true LTE speeds on my new iPad here in the Philly area, I can't honestly say that I have a huge problem with the 3-5 RealWorld (tm) Mbps I get on HSPA+ when I have a decent signal. My biggest issue with AT&T in this area has been backhaul bandwidth, meaning, when I have a strong wireless signal but can't get any throughput because the network BEHIND the wireless signal doesn't have the capacity to handle what's being thrown at it.
I live in Scranton pa about 2 hours from Philly. Bought the original iPad when it first came out so I was grandfathered in the AT&T unlimited plan. Bought the new ipad3 thought I was going to get this ultra fast speeds. Man was I disappointed I didn't see a change in speed frome the 3G I returned it gave up my unlimited plan and switched to Verizion. All I can say is wow I'm getting over 35 mps vs 1 or 2 mps with AT&T definitely worth giving up the unlimited plan for the speed I'm getting with Verizion
Could be the rudeness of the inhabitants
Wow, way to jump into the thread with an insightful comment. Nice going.
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Make sure you save your IMEI from your original iPad. With it and an AT&T sim, you will be able to use your Verizon iPad on AT&T 4G if you are in an area where Verizon doesn't have LTE.
If you will read, I was not the only one who has a similar comment about Philly. I have visited . . . . Crude and rude.
I have read, and comments about the manners of Philly residents are completely irrelevant to the thread topic. The thread questioned why Philly would be skipped by AT&T, and jokers, like you, decided to start slinging mud about Philadelphians. There are rude *******s in every city, not just Philly. Let's stick to the topic.
Hey at least the mile high city(Denver) didn't get skipped but as far as the burbs' go AT&T has been very sketchy. Meanwhile at Verizon they forgot us completely. Although considering philly is pretty big common sense tells me that you guys should have LTE soon.
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FYI: Philadelphia will be getting LTE soon enough. It's too big of a market for them to set aside.
http://www.att.com/gen/sites/focus?pid=22633
^^Those markets are very important to AT&T.
http://www.att.com/gen/sites/focus?pid=22633
^^Those markets are very important to AT&T.
You are taking your thread WAY too serious!
You asked why and I am giving you my opinion of why they skipped Philly and YOU are doing a great job of proving my point!
SO get back on topic!
Why ARE they so rude?Philadelphia-metro area
New Jersey Turnpike Exit # 4
Verizon LTE
Download 12.94 Mbps
Upload 3.86 Mbps
Ping 53 ms
AT&T 4G (non-LTE)
Download 7.36 Mbps
Upload 1.37 Mbps
Ping 57 ms
New Jersey Turnpike Exit # 4
Verizon LTE
Download 12.94 Mbps
Upload 3.86 Mbps
Ping 53 ms
AT&T 4G (non-LTE)
Download 7.36 Mbps
Upload 1.37 Mbps
Ping 57 ms
Well, no LTE annoucement cost them a potential customer to Verizon (switched from wifi only yesterday). Their loss...
Hopefully suburban coverage gets expanded soon.
Update - I can now get Verizon LTE at my apartment complex (used to just reach the main street of my Delaware County town some blocks away).
If only I had it on my iPhone, sigh.Hope AT&T does roll it out this summer as rumored. I understand unions slowing things down, but it's not like that's exclusive to them and not Verizon.
I'm a little disgruntled it's not offered here in Seattle either. So I feel your pain OP. They need to get their act together!