Verizon Business - LTE?

Wed Aug 17 14:24:08 UTC 2011

On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Måns Nilsson wrote:

> Subject: Re: Verizon Business - LTE? Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:49:38AM -0400 Quoting chris (tknchris at gmail.com):
>> Overall, IMO the trends are just seem to be going backwards. We have more
>> speed but we can use it less? What kind of technology advancement is that?
>> 
>> I've had "unlimited" gprs, edge, 3g, and never really seen any kind of
>> actual cap. Sure they were slower but I didn't have to worry about getting
>> surprised on my next bill. If my edge from 5+ years ago could 3gb/day and
>> 90gb a month how is 4G at 5gb an improvement of the service?
> 
> In Sweden, I've seen several people in public transportation run
> Bittorrent clients on 3G. There might have been 9g a month for you
> back then, but nobody else did it. Now, every laptop has a 3G card. And
> they're getting used. With a sensible distribution of users over cells,
> the bottleneck is backhaul. Many towers started out with a couple bundled
> E1 circuits. Upgrading them to Ethernet over something (because Ethernet
> is the new black) costs a lot, apparently.

Takes a lot of E1s to support a couple hundred Mb/s of down-stream capacity. The capital expended on providing the facility has to include expanded capicty otherwise it doesn't make much sense to roll new technology in the first place.

> OTOH, never underestimate "Because we can". 
> 
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