Comments on: Carriers put the finishing touches on their 2012 LTE rollouts http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/ Sat, 25 May 2013 21:35:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tim Davies http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1270960 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:56:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1270960 The problem with ATT’s wifi network is that it is not seamless. It’s actually very annoying! My phone will connect to it, and I will not have any data for notifications because it’s waiting for me to agree to the terms of use before it can be used. Mean while it’s blocking my cellular data. So if I don’t do anything, I miss out on notifications while I am in range of the hotspot. DUMB. it should be able to detect that you are an ATT customer/phone and connect automatically with no terms of use to agree to…you already agreed to them as a customer!!

]]> By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1270837 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:40:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1270837 Plus I wrote about T-Mo’s HSPA+ PCS expansion today :)

http://gigaom.com/apple/nyc-and-13-more-cities-get-t-mobiles-iphone-friendly-upgrade/

]]> By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1270834 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:39:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1270834 Hi Eddie,

How do you know T-Mo will deploy at density? It hasn’t even started deploying LTE yet. It has to refarm a good portion of AWS before it can even start. I agree they’ll have one hell of a fallback network (dual-carrier HSPA+ no less), but that isn’t an indication that it will replicate LTE at every cell site from the start, right?

]]> By: Rob P. http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1270820 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:34:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1270820 They haven’t had an outage in months.

]]> By: Eddie Russell http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1270816 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:32:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1270816 Whereas TMo is basically deloying at density and when you do fall out you’ll be on high speed modern ’4G’ H+ network (unlike the others) since they are basically getting rid of 2G (not entirely yet, but soon)

]]> By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1270416 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:02:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1270416 Hey AJ,

Good to hear from you. All good points, but I also think VZ’s 1-2 year lead has a lot to do with it as well.:) In your measurements do you find VZ’s LTE network that spotty, or at least spottier than AT&T’s of Sprint’s? Just from my own experience and from others’ reports I got the impression that AT&T wasn’t deploying at density either.

]]> By: Kevin Fitchard http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1270402 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:56:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1270402 Hi TK,

It hasn’t started deploying LTE yet.

]]> By: Andrew J Shepherd http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1270394 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:51:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1270394 VZW certainly has a sizable LTE lead. But I have to wonder if that advantage will soon turn into a disadvantage. VZW is reportedly deploying LTE 750 only on selected sites to maintain its current coverage footprint, not its current coverage density. Moreover, VZW is still using ground based radios, while AT&T and Sprint are both using antenna mounted radios. In other words, VZW’s LTE deployment is moving along more quickly because it is not necessarily comparable in extent to its rivals LTE deployments, certainly not comparable to Sprint’s Network Vision complete network renovation.

AJ

]]> By: clearlytoomuch http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1269815 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:33:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1269815 Over the night AT&T went live with LTE coverage in Lexington, KY as well.

]]> By: tk http://gigaom.com/2012/12/19/carriers-put-the-finishing-touches-on-their-2012-lte-rollouts/#comment-1268901 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:40:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=596184#comment-1268901 why leave out tmo?

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