Comments on: AT&T to supercharge wireless network

While actual speeds of soon-to-be upgraded network will be fraction of 20Mbps theoretical maximum, it'll delight iPhone users, compete with Sprint-Clearwire WiMax network.

[mrc77]

I think the sentence in paragraph 6 should read "But in the real world speeds are closer to 400 Kbps to 700 Kbps."

Right?

Anyway, this article is good for me because it is time to upgrade my phone, and I use AT&T so I am just going to sit back and wait for the new cool technology to come out.

[mrc77]

But in the real world speeds are closer to 400 Kbps to 700 Kbps.

That should be the sentence in paragraph 6, right?

[bonesbautista]

I'm liking the tether speeds with my almost-new Z9 - up to 1.5 Mbps down, 450 k up, averaging about 1.2 Mbps down.

One issue, tho'. AT&T has a 5 GB data soft cap. Not a problem with business users (until everybody using the system brings the system to its knees and AT&T institutes serious data compression) - users could hit that cap in less than a week.

And, since I'm tethering (a month-to-month add), I'll be looking for cheaper data in the future, AT&T. If every iPhone is blowing through data at 20 Washingtons per month, I'll be seriously ticked if I get asked to pay 3 times that amount for data. And, a more reasonable data cap when the time comes. It'd also be nice if AT&T could turn off that AMR-HR vocodor on their 2.5G network....

With Sprint's all-you-can-eat data plans, I may be looking to get one of their cards to try out their product.

[Stating]

Odd that AT&T's DSL (Dull, Slow, Lazy) is pretty much limited to 2.5 megabits per second in many neighborhoods but magically their wireless will be almost 10 times faster.

[rtuinenburg]

Yeah funny how they pull these cards out of thin air. Well no matter what pretty soon we will be able to drop our internet connection at home and share our broadband from our phone onto our network at home and our mobile laptops/tv's. Broadband everywhere, what a new world... Cant wait!

[Quemannn]

Talk is cheap. UMTS is no competitor to WiMAX, whatever the reason. LTE may take some years until deployed or implemented. Verizon Wireless and AT&T have a very good reason why they go for LTE: it takes years of time until commercially available.