AT&T thinking about launching its LTE Advanced pipeline in the middle of next year

6. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)

where did you get that? That would be like a gigabits per second. It would drain a phone's battery for just an hour or so.. :O

7. speed4evr (Posts: 79; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)

"According to Krisdh Prabhu, CEO and President of AT&T Labs, LTE Advanced provides users with speeds up to ten times faster than the current LTE service offers" last paragraph

15. nnaatthhaannx2 (Posts: 820; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)

Lol don't forget the 5000 mah battery needed to power it.

5. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)

Sounds like spin from AT&T. Their problem was how fast they rolled out LTE-capable towers. If they follow the same roll-out urgency, VZW will beat them in the A-LTE race as well.

9. Omarc07 (Posts: 481; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)

i agree with u people like mydi.maus and droid x doug seem to forget atts hspa blows verizons 3g out of the water .. sure verizon has more lte but everywere i been LA, san fransisco , puerto rico n other places were both att and verizon have lte its a tie in speed but in places were verizon dont have 4G like puerto rico and some parts of california and many more places that i been to atts 3G of fake 4G how some people like to call it has been better providing speeds of up to 11 mbps something u cannot get on verizons 3G evdo and also u can use voice and data which i ADMIT i neeever use haha so yeaa i think its good if att launches lte advanced nxt year then att would have the fastest network in the US with hspa+ , lte and lte advanced.

10. itzmando (Posts: 115; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)

What areas in California have you not had LTE coverage. Thats a bit strange as I have been to Sacramento, San Fran, Oakland, L.A. Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Orange County. I have never suffered lack of LTE coverage so Im curious to know what cities you have had problems with?

Just from using that speed.net app I avg 15-17 mbps which is on the low end but L.A. for sure get me low to mid 20s mbps. I am not even exaggerating the numbers. I will agree the very few times I actually dropped down to 3G was slow data which was in San Bernardino.

But thats soon to change since LTE towers are extending that area, ATT gets poor service in that area so even with 3G its still actually slower than VZW. My cousins all have T-mobile so that area has better coverage than the leading two.

12. Omarc07 (Posts: 481; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)

Visalia California my sister lives there, adelanto california, san Jose California some parts of Stockton I'm not saying Verizon doesnt have LTE in those places I mentioned it does but its very spotty were as att doesn't have Lte in all those places only in san Jose I think not sure but in those places its hspa network gets 10-12 mbps easily were as Verizon only gets 4-8 tops I seen it with my sisters droid razr maxx. and in places were att has LTE I get 20-30 mbps .

11. bigdawg23 (Posts: 462; Member since: 25 May 2011)

I am with you. Many places I go my GNote and iPhone 5 out pace my work issued MIFI spot from VZW running LTE. Both companies need to address the lack of coverage from LaCrosse WI to Wisconsin Dells, WI. Along I90 the coverage is a joke by both companies. ATT does have solid edge while VZW has no data coverage at all.

End of the day its persons use and coverage need that matters. Every person will have pros and cons to say about all the carriers. I have friends who swear by T-Mo, while for me the coverage is HORRIBLE.