name the PHONE besides HTC that has a LTE chip in it and that is also QCOM.....Not sure I know of one.
their Pantech modem works ok, but then it has a steady 500 mA source and a giant 1500 mAHr battery to back it up. Other than that, I can;t think of one LTE powered device that has their chip.
If you got em, list em...
MOT does their own, Samsung does their own. Who else even has a 4G phone?
Speeds are fast WHEN THERE IS COVERAGE ...like 15 Mbps. Highest I have seen is 150 Mbps in the outback near Rochester NY.
As for frequency issues, this is not rocket sceince. they already do it for hte Pantech modem, so why not for a phone? Oh yea, they do not want a fixed single one. In todays technology there is no reason that you can't make a radio which is agile over 450 Mhz to 6 Ghz in a single chip. then couple this wiht some clever filtering and PA technoogy and there is no reason they cannot overcome this simply.
But the cell sites from VZ are broken and limping along. What happens is that these carriers have gotten very slick, but very dishonest in how they show coverage, speed, and real network access. they tell you they are the fastest (Tmo) but then they do not have good coverage. Or they are the most reliable, but then this is on ones that are connected to major cell towers where they keep them up 24/7.
but when you roll the screen back and see the wizard, you find out that Verizon has had at least 3-4 full days of complete nationwide LTE outage. In the first one, I caught it in about 15 mins, tried to work with Verizon on it, they just flat lied to me, tried to bully me into not looking at it, sent trucks into my place to tresspass, all to make it my problem. Just use your wifi and get over it I was told.
And all the Us carriers are playing this cover your problems with wifi, so everyone thinks it is all ok. but you are paying for a free service and paying alot for it. Even if you never touch a real working 4G or HSDPA basestation in a month, you still pay them $30-60 for the priveldge of using your device on someone elses wifi.
In EU, the carriers are worried that there will be a new startup which uses the wifi to go completely, yes completly around the carriers. totally possible.
not in the US, where the FCC backed up telling google to tear down their free wifi setup, the major carriers basically OWN the FCC. and it would have just gotten 1000 times worse if the AT&T-mo deal went thru. It would have meant that Sprint probably would have been bought by Verizon and we would have TWO carriers in the US.
there is no reason for anyone ever to buy spectrum any more, as there is no possiblity of them getting enough traction and captial to make use of it IF THE DEAL WENT thru. I actually prefer the 3G situation in the EU which is that each area has 4 complete carriers mandated with each having hte same spectrum for 3G. No monopolies.
Yes, I see Q behind the competition and just pushing ever more EVDO and 3G. They do not dominate the LTE world and have to share it wiht others. There are like 10 different low cost, small, LTE basestation products coming out for next year CTIA. How many you think are QCOM based? |
