Comments on: CES: T-Mobile intros 42 Mbps Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:50:11 +0000

I don’t see these kind of caps in the near future. There are not enough cell tower channels to have people dropping their landline data for pure LTE. It costs a whole hell of a lot more money to put in the capacity for people to get all data over the airwaves than it does from burying a cable in the ground to a house.

By: nur3k

nur3k — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:42:46 +0000

Samsung makes one of the best phones now, but hey should start thinking ahead if they want to keep up, they don’t have their own OS, and they should figure out a way to integrate all of their devices a little bit more… not only the tablet-smatphone line,they have a great hardware, but OS & soft? http://baretech.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-future-of-samsung/

By: anon

anon — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:41:10 +0000

all this speed makes little sense when the caps are staying low. where are the 50GB/month data plans? that would be just about what would attract a lot of people to spend quite a bit extra on cellular and dump the cable/dsl. especially single occupant households with just a phone plus perhaps one laptop and a tablet.

a phone with 50GB data cap and tethering allowed would be perfect, and plenty of people would be willing to pay. but there is no option for such a plan in the US.

By: justin

justin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:50:14 +0000

yes, not useful at all in fact… oh wait, how long do you think it’ll take t-mobile to begin to compete directly with the DSL and Cable home internet providers in the united states?

they’ll have a nation-wide 21 mbps service, which is much more than the average home connection has access to.

i believe after this full upgrade they’ll plan to remove the cap on home subscribers which won’t bottleneck into congested cells, which is the primary reason they cap the data in the first place.

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:20:21 +0000

“My Galaxy Nexus sees 10 Mbps down in my area — which is a 21 Mbps coverage zone — and for a smartphone, that’s plenty fast enough for the relatively inexpensive price of a T-Mobile data plan.”

This really is the crux of the matter and a lot of people don’t think through the implications and get all wound up about LTE. My Galaxy S Vibrant gets 3.7m down and 800k up with 100ms ping. The people who are hung up on LTE need to consider what I’m going to use on my phone that will take advantage of higher speeds and that’s useful in a world with 2gig data caps. Facebook updates, Tweets and email aren’t it.