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Originally Posted by bikeandestroyx
well thats with their 3g technology, LTE is more advanced than 4g from what i understand.
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Technically speaking, LTE and WiMax are
not 4g as "4g" has yet to be approved by any of the work groups involved. Most consider both technologies to be 3.5g because of this, though for marketing companies are throwing around 4g (sort of like the Wifi N debacle).
LTE Advanced has been put forth as a 4g candidate.
Either way, we won't see any of this tech in a "phone" proper for probably 2 years. This announcement is more relevant for data cards/dongles/date devices than phones.
The reason for that is LTE has no agreed upon method for handling voice calls, so it has to fall back onto 1x--but that method has not been agreed upon yet either. Building a ROM, assuming that was even possible, would only get to "roam" on Verizon''s old EvDO network for data (something we can rarely do now as Sprint doesn't have a 3g data roam agreement with them), but do nothing for voice, which last I checked is the main function of a phone
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Originally Posted by phillip587
you are correct, 5-12 mbps down and 2-5 up
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But you can do
that in Baltimore today with Sprint and WiMax. The "real world" speeds and reliability between the two technologies still need to be tested. Too early to call without mentioning their "theoretical potentials".