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Is this not false advertising?
I have seen all these commercials "4G network, 4G phones, 4G 4G 4G!!!!". Well, being a networking nerd, I was curious what the speeds were for the 4G standard.
What I came to was a startling conclusion. There is actually no real set standard for 4G. It is really just a new idea, an improvement on current tech. However, I did find that they wanted speeds up to 1 gigabit for stationary and 100 megabits down for moving. For that to be true, these speeds would have to be faster than, well, fiber-optic connections (Fiber optic is around 30mb/s, 1gb/s down would be around 4 times that fast). Sorry, there is not a single phone around that can get me that kind of speed on any current network. The only leg the companies might have to stand on is that their phones will be ready for 4G when it is available, but I believe it is Sprint advertising the "best 4G network around".
My question is, is this false advertising?
basically, 4G is just another way they found to transmit...in most cases, its done with the old bandwidths the tv stations used to use before the switch to digital from analog...while the phone companies are scrambling to lease the bandwidth before the FCC runs out of licenses, they also inherit the maintenance and upkeep of the equipment that was used to do the transmitting, i.e., the towers and antennaes and such...
therein lies the problem...if not for SPRINT, then certainly for other companies boasting 4G, like CLEARWIRE, or CLEAR...i think its CLEAR on the east coast, CLEARWIRE on the west coast, or something..
Here's what SPRINT did: they came out with their 4G network about a year ago, and offered up some talked up, hyped up hardware to go along with it..namely, modems and hotspot modem/routers, which they were hustling for a pretty penny..
I'm no nerd or geek, but i did find out in short order, that last year this time, SPRINT wasn't ready for the world....their modem hardware, put out by Qualcomm, was engineered for 3G, and firmware upgrades had to be downloaded to them..but in order to download the upgrades, you had to get a signal, and SPRINT was purposely blocking or degrading their 3 & 4G signal for one simple reason: to make you pay for the usage...
The SPRINT contract for those modems was like this: You would get unlimited 4G service, with no caps, with the 2yr contract, but use of the already existing 3G network would cost you oodles per KB....so what would happen was, when you switched on the modem or pocket hotspot router and started surfing, the signal would always drop from the 4G network, and switch back to the 3G network, with little or no difference in quality that you could see outright....when that happened, your bill started to skyrocket...
In all fairness to SPRINT, they did have a control console on the modems, which allowed the user to configure whether they wanted the modems to switch automatically to 3G in case of loss of 4G signal..if you turned it off, then you spent a lot of time offline with no signal, cuz the 4G wasn't set up as planned...or as advertised..
that was last year...this year, while SPRINT, and others like CLEAR have acquired leases, and towers to transmit from, their networks are slowly covering the landscape...but the equipment is old and faulty, and i guess when the media got wind of the big switch from analog to digital, the stations using those towers stopped working on them to maintain them.
What that means where i live, is that although the theory of speed is sound, the application is faulty , due to the equipment used.....kinda like trying to apply Einsteins theories using a fast car.....fast, but not fast enough for light speed or even close to it.
Those speed standards you mention are just hype..even if the down and upload speeds were anywhere near that fast, who, pray tell, has the pc powerful enough to handle it? PCs are still operating on 128 bit platforms, by and large; cpu speeds have reached a plateau, and the only way to acheive faster speed now is simply to double up on cpu's.....these optimal speed rates are something you get with direct connect pc to pc, like LAN; on the open and crowded highway of the web, your speeds are dictated by the servers of the sites, and the traffic on them.
SPRINT has based their claims on the prospect of making money, from customers who will buy into the tech first, then sit and wait for SPRINT to take their contract investments ,and improve the application.....if i were stupid, i'd be halfway into a dead end contract with SPRINT, for a nifty gadget that didn't work as advertised, but looked cool to carry around...
JUST LIKE AN IPHONE.
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