AT&T LTE found to be faster than Verizon's
0. phoneArena posted on 21 Dec 2011, 10:48
It had been assumed that although AT&T has fielded a faster network compared to Verizon for years that LTE would bring parity between the carriers, but a new study has found that AT&T's fledgling LTE network is upwards of 30% faster than Verizon's...
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37. NokiaS77 posted on 21 Dec 2011, 18:21 0 0
Well, it's like this, lte is a natural path from basic gsm tech to a higher path of the same technology. It's called Inter-Technological Mobility. It works seemless lte and 3g. HSPA works on top of or as the same as 3g, Its just another upgrade as with lte is layered to and with hspa. This is why 99 times out of a100 you wont see att with all these outages as does verizon. In short, verizon is trying to take a world standard and mix with cdma tech, 1 for data and 1 for voice. A whole lot of kinks must be worked out in all of that transfer. Att works so much smoother, it's called moving up the path. Verizon wasn't so simple and it's 2 different worlds of tech they have to make work together and the handover is much more complex and battery life will suffer from it in verizon lte phones. Thats all.
42. remixfa posted on 21 Dec 2011, 20:03 2 2
you didnt answer a single question. you show no proof of your data.
And if you know radio tech so well, then you would know that CDMA carries signal longer per tower, and it also carries a much better building penetration than GSM which is why for actual connectivity, CDMA is superior. GSM's only strength is in its faster 3G speeds compared to CDMA and its natural HSPA+ progression path.
VZW's signal is much harder to knock out than ATT's, and their network is much bigger than 1.3% of a difference. I dont know who has been feeding you that line, but its not true at all.
45. NokiaS77 posted on 22 Dec 2011, 02:18 1 0
Lets put it like this, when you build out towers, you know whats going on. At the end of the day, I don't have to prove anything because you are not putting money into my accounts. Having said that, as so called as superior as cdma is said to be, 70% of the world doesn't use it. By the way, doesn't sprint use cdma? Oh, they have wonderful penetration don't they? Spectrum is what causes better building penetration fool. Now, nothing changes the fact that Lte and Gsm networks work better together. By the way, who asked me a question? Att and Verizon are about the same in terms of wireless. Verizon has more 3g coverage that's all. Field test have proved this. All one must do is look at both of their coverage maps and see for yourself what they both advertise on map coverage. I'm sorry, you know so much. Miss me with the hype.
46. remixfa posted on 22 Dec 2011, 09:16 0 1
70%?
Really, last check said it was 52% GSM to 48% CDMA.
Try again.
you dont have to prove anything.. because you have no proof.
53. devon613 posted on 23 Dec 2011, 19:55 1 0
man ignore that person im with u nokias77 they hating they prob got verizon lol...most of the world is cdma y u think verizon wants to switch to gsm it will happen one day ....cdma is old technology....
25. torr310 posted on 21 Dec 2011, 15:27 1 0
Internet speeds from different carrier are fast enough for me...
But AT&T... scored the worst customer services again this year.
28. MickDM posted on 21 Dec 2011, 16:02 0 0
Did some1 mention a FAIR comparison? I just read pa 4 general information...very biased reporters here...
38. downphoenix posted on 21 Dec 2011, 18:55 0 1
all the speed in the world doesnt matter if you dont have the road to travel. A car going 200 mph wouldnt matter if it can only do it on a quarter mile, it needs an autobahn
40. andi8945 posted on 21 Dec 2011, 19:58 0 0
I live in Puerto Rico and ive been using from my job the galaxy skyrocket and have been doing speed test for the LTE networks, and the numbers are great 13.3 mb download and 3.5 upload. Can't wait for more and even greater LTE phones!! Can't say for Verizon because we don't have it in PR
47. Jeradiah3 posted on 22 Dec 2011, 10:42 0 0
The problem with this article is tenure. Verizon has had LTE for over 6 months while AT&T is just getting started. I have AT&T and Im looking forward to having LTE here in St. Louis. We cannot honestly say that AT&T has a better LTE network than Verizon until it has been active for over 6 months with enough subscribers and devices active within
The only difference between the networks are the backup coverages when LTE has a weak signal or none at all
AT&T has HSPA+ and HSPA as their backups to LTE
Verizon has 1+EvDo (I think)
that is a huge difference because we all know that LTE wont be available everywhere for a while and we are addictive to not only our data plans, but the amount of time it takes to load a web page or stream a video. It depends on what you are willing to deal with when LTE is down
The only advantage that AT&T has over Verizon is that I can surf the web and talk on the phone at the same time
48. remixfa posted on 22 Dec 2011, 11:08 0 1
LTE will most likely be rolled out over top of the HSPA+ signals, which is true. More than likely though, those massive areas not covered under ATT's tiny 3g footprint will see no improvements made as they concentrate on the high population centers that have HSPA already.
VZW's entire network (with maybe a minor exception here n there) runs off of EVDO-Rev A 3G.
So in the cities where ATT has its HSPA/LTE it should technically be faster (at least until the network bogs down), but in the rest of the country, VZW is still faster.
The only issue I see.. and someone correct me if they know otherwise, is with LTE/HSPA. Everyone assumes that they will somehow always be faster than VZWs LTE/CDMA on a pure numbers scale. But in real life, unless the phones are designed to intelligently detect and switch between HSPA+ and LTE when both signals are available (depending on which one is running faster at the moment), there will be no noticable speed advantage with ATT. The LTE market is going right on top of their tiny HSPA+ market, so the most likely scenario is that the phones will search for LTE the whole time and then drop down to EDGE/HSDPA when not in a prime market.. which is no faster in real speed tests than EVDO Rev A.
Its all about where you live.
49. NokiaS77 posted on 22 Dec 2011, 12:36 1 0
Your so smart, you don't know sh*t. Att network is much more expanded than what it was a year ago. For people like you that's always running your mouth, wait til you see what happens in 7 months. You know Att is a larger company overall right? Now Lte is gsm and it accounts for that 70% fool. Until you get out there in the business, what you say means nothing. You are so full of typical american hype and propaganda. Why yes, often times it's about where you live. Fact, handover from Lte to HSPA is much smoother and faster than handover from Lte to CDMA. ATT is more advanced and is/will be a faster network and no one will match it, unless Tmobile pumps out Lte. Now do you work for verizon? Even if you do, take that red c**k out of your mouth long enough to be balanced.
51. remixfa posted on 22 Dec 2011, 19:38 0 1
hey, get loud, it proves you have no point. good job.
no, i dont work for VZW, yes I do work for Tmobile. Yes i have a pretty in depth knowledge of the carriers, where they stand, the techs involved, and every last bit of that nonsense.
70% of what? GSM vs CDMA??? LTE is an evolution of GSM yes, but it does NOT count toward some GSM carrier unless that LTE is going to places that were never covered before, as those % are based on countries and their land coverage.
BTW, when competitors release their "coverage" maps, ATT includes its roaming agreements with Tmobile in its "total coverage". VZW does not include anyone's agreements. VZW is still the bigger network, BY FAR. And when you get into real world use, VZW obliterates ATT for signal strength. VZW's ENTIRE network is 3g where ATT's network is still mostly EDGE with pockets of 3g/hspa+ in major population centers.
"typical american propaganda". We call that a "fact". look it up.. its in the dictionary... under "fact". Amazing, huh?
52. NokiaS77 posted on 23 Dec 2011, 03:41 1 0
Get load my butt. YOU have no proof. Your facts are wrong bud. Now, did big red tell you they have big roaming agreements with sprint and vise versa. No, they didn't. Tmobile uses Att towers more so, not the other way around. Lets hip you to this, Att is upgrading their whole network to HSPA+, fact, you'll see. By the way, Att's edge is high speed and in most places, fast as evdo rev a & b. Let's not play on words, lte is gsm in every way. I wish you could build and do field work and work in the central offices to do syncrinization. Ooh I really do. I wish you could live in Canada to see how hspa+ and lte are almost so equal in speed. You wouldn't even know the technical/simple difference between hspa+ and lte.VZW obliterates ATT for signal strength? That's why Tmobile is just as good as Verizon in voice quality and when traveling 65south in the mountains, verizon drops off more than Att. Ok. BTW as they say, if your going to talk all of that foolishness and be wrong and have no real insight, get a job making more than 30 or 40 thousand dollars a year. Please?
54. devon613 posted on 23 Dec 2011, 20:05 0 0
dang i like u more and more nokia lol get'em lol....im over here weak(laughing) I worked for sprint and tmobile now att and sprint was so terrible and tmobile was ok but has been getting worse i havent had many problems with att i know my internet is way faster than i have ever had....funny how verizon people think they never heard of a drop call when my mom gets them all the time so funny...but just wanted to give u props bro ...keep it up
