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Old 12-12-2008, 06:38 PM
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Re: LTE vs. Wi-Max
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Originally Posted by blue4shizzle View Post
ah... that is extremely unlikely to happen regardless anyway... gsm is a whole differnt type of technology (not assuming you didnt know this already). if they was to do what you mentioned... then they would have to set up a whole new set of towers to use that are gsm based for their handsets.. while at the same time keeping up with the towers that support cdma phones.. as we all know, they are renting them out as it is anyway lol. as much as we would want that, i seriously doubt that it would ever happen.. even if pigs flew and hell froze over.
Oh yeah... I knew that... Verizon is going to LTE.. And they use CDMA now..

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Originally Posted by savior02 View Post
seems to me the only thing u win is pride until your contract is up than u probably switch because LTE is supposed to be faster than wimax.....
Supposed is the key word... LTE is quoted at 100 Mbps and Wi-Max is quoted at 70Mbps.. Obviously that is theoretical... It all depends on what the actual throughput is..
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