Future generations always hold promise, but for Verizon Wireless, a fourth-generation mobile broadband network is proving both promising — and perilous. With speeds Verizon promises will be “up to 10 times faster than the company’s 3G network,” the 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network launches December 5 amid concerns about pricing, access and absence — of a mobile phone counterpart. PC Magazine reported it hit a download speed of 21 Mbps on Verizon’s 4G LTE network — noting that at that rate, a user could eat up 5 GB of data in just 32 minutes.
You know what is funny is we keep introducing more ways to eat up bandwidth like movies,facetime and video sharing. But the real perk is that the carrier will be the biggest gainer of this. People are idiots about using cellular broadband and the carriers know this.
I am staying away from Smartphones until broadband not only gets faster,but much cheaper.
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Verizon's 4G Network May Not Be for the Faint of Heart
Posted by: Mike Martin December 3, 2010 12:39 PMFuture generations always hold promise, but for Verizon Wireless, a fourth-generation mobile broadband network is proving both promising — and perilous. With speeds Verizon promises will be “up to 10 times faster than the company’s 3G network,” the 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network launches December 5 amid concerns about pricing, access and absence — of a mobile phone counterpart. PC Magazine reported it hit a download speed of 21 Mbps on Verizon’s 4G LTE network — noting that at that rate, a user could eat up 5 GB of data in just 32 minutes.
I am staying away from Smartphones until broadband not only gets faster,but much cheaper.