You know what, LTE will be awesome when it's here, but for the moment I'd just like to see 3G rolled out nationwide first. People who live in major metro areas forget that some people, especially those locked into AT&T or Sprint contracts, can't get HSDPA or EVDO outside of very large cities. I live in the same town as one of the largest college campuses in the midwest. I certainly hope no one gets LTE before 2009. It's unfair to leave customers in half the country not one but two generations as they roll out the latest and greatest everywhere else.
Technically its NOT unfair...do you see FIOS going to Montana or Arkansas anytime soon? of course not, because thats not where the big markets are. The same argument can be applied to LTE being rolled out.
The difference is that if there's an under-served market in Montana, anyone can go in and throw some wire in the ground and provide the service on their own. No one else can do that in my market with cell phones because the major carriers own the wireless spectrum. (And yes, it is theirs and not leased here.) There IS something wrong and unfair when you control and market, and you deliberately provide inferior service to most areas you control.
I am in Wichita, KS, 50th largest City in the United States, yeah, we arent a HUGE city, but pretty good size with Half a MIllion people around, and we still don't have 3G from AT&T. Yet they are talking about the next generation. I can't wait for a 3G iPhone, but its not as exciting to me, as when I go off to college next year, you can bet it definitely wont have 3G if Wichita doesn't.
Either way, for you Verizon people, don't forget who Apple asked to carry the iPhone exclusively first, but they refused. :-) Apple realized that the iPhone would need a large fast network, they saw that in Verizon, AT&T was, naturally, the second choice. I'm not to happy about it either, I love my iPhone, but sure hate EDGE. Hell, go out of Wichita a bit and you have GRPS.
Actually Verizon was second. AT&T was first but they were taking too long to respond and weren't sure if they were gonna go along with Jobs so he went to Verizon to see what they thought. And, of course, they instantly turned him down.
When Jobs asked Verizon for a share of the monthly fees, all of the profit from phone sales, and full control over the phone software, I believe Verizon's words were "FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!"
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You know what, LTE will be awesome when it's here, but for the moment I'd just like to see 3G rolled out nationwide first.
People who live in major metro areas forget that some people, especially those locked into AT&T or Sprint contracts, can't get HSDPA or EVDO outside of very large cities. I live in the same town as one of the largest college campuses in the midwest.
I certainly hope no one gets LTE before 2009. It's unfair to leave customers in half the country not one but two generations as they roll out the latest and greatest everywhere else.
Technically its NOT unfair...do you see FIOS going to Montana or Arkansas anytime soon? of course not, because thats not where the big markets are. The same argument can be applied to LTE being rolled out.
The difference is that if there's an under-served market in Montana, anyone can go in and throw some wire in the ground and provide the service on their own.
No one else can do that in my market with cell phones because the major carriers own the wireless spectrum. (And yes, it is theirs and not leased here.) There IS something wrong and unfair when you control and market, and you deliberately provide inferior service to most areas you control.
I am in Wichita, KS, 50th largest City in the United States, yeah, we arent a HUGE city, but pretty good size with Half a MIllion people around, and we still don't have 3G from AT&T. Yet they are talking about the next generation. I can't wait for a 3G iPhone, but its not as exciting to me, as when I go off to college next year, you can bet it definitely wont have 3G if Wichita doesn't.
Either way, for you Verizon people, don't forget who Apple asked to carry the iPhone exclusively first, but they refused. :-) Apple realized that the iPhone would need a large fast network, they saw that in Verizon, AT&T was, naturally, the second choice. I'm not to happy about it either, I love my iPhone, but sure hate EDGE. Hell, go out of Wichita a bit and you have GRPS.
@Seth A
Actually Verizon was second. AT&T was first but they were taking too long to respond and weren't sure if they were gonna go along with Jobs so he went to Verizon to see what they thought. And, of course, they instantly turned him down.
When Jobs asked Verizon for a share of the monthly fees, all of the profit from phone sales, and full control over the phone software, I believe Verizon's words were "FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!"