This is a discussion thread for the "Sprint to Keep Unlimited Data Even If LTE iPhone Launches" story posted on the front page.
lol to bad there LTE wont be able to a lot of cities until 2013-2014. Even if that their LTE will be slow as hell like the rest of their data.
Um you do know their LTE isn't even out yet? Also they have been doing tests since a friend of mine works with them in the engineering department, and they reported with only a few phones on the LTE networking that the speeds of download are at a high of 120MB/s and upload at 84MB/s. All I'm saying is don't slander a company who actually cares about their customers and at least tries to keep their cost down.
It's all in good fun, based off of their current "4G" (wimax) speeds being slower than competitor's 3G speeds. Rather, all of their data slower than every other carrier's by a lot. Wouldn't be surprised if their LTE was also the slowest of all LTE here in the US. (Also, I have less than a single bar of Sprint coverage near me, yet full coverage with any other carrier, so I take everything "serious" from them with a very big laugh, like "The best iPhone is a Sprint iPhone," and such.)
Comparing 4G WiMax to LTE or even 3G is out of the question. People need to realize that just because you have full bars doesn't mean your actually getting full data bars. That goes for any network. So what if it's slightly slower? $80 a month compared to $130 a month just to have a little bit faster speeds but no unlimited? Um yeah no thanks.
You can't possibly mean MB/s you must mean Mbps which is an 8th of a MB. Marketing... It'a still unrealistic considering that LTE goes up to 72 Mbps extremely rarely at that. Sent from an urban blind peering from behind a .50 caliber Barrett laser-sighted sniper rifle aimed right at your forehead.
