Getting a sim on the first day
Jan 10th 2014, 4:59 am
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Re: Getting a sim on the first day
It can be. The reason AT&T and T-Mobile call it 4G is to compare to the CDMA 3G technology that Verizon and Sprint use, which is 10-20 times slower than UMTS HSPA+
LTE has better latency, and a bit higher throughput - especially on the upstream. But HSPA+ is far closer in performance to LTE than it is to Verizon/Sprint "3G" (which isn't much faster than GSM EDGE) so I see why they use the 4G branding.
LTE has better latency, and a bit higher throughput - especially on the upstream. But HSPA+ is far closer in performance to LTE than it is to Verizon/Sprint "3G" (which isn't much faster than GSM EDGE) so I see why they use the 4G branding.
