XLTE...OK TMo what are you going to do now?

[LuvMusic]

I'm on TMo, my son is on VZW. We're in the Chicago area. My son just sent me a text reporting that he got 84Mbps down inside his school building.......WHOA!! I'm luck if I can get a 1/4 of that speed inside.

 

[Closingracer]

And who cares? You don't really ever need 84 mbps download speed on a phone

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[HawaiiD]

Here in Honolulu we are in the 60-70MB DL range on Tmo I am not complaining

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[Almeuit]

I'm on TMo, my son is on VZW. We're in the Chicago area. My son just sent me a text reporting that he got 84Mbps down inside his school building.......WHOA!! I'm luck if I can get a 1/4 of that speed inside.

T-Mobile is doing the same but are calling t wideband LTE.

http://www.tmonews.com/2014/01/t-mo...t-etfs-paid-off-wideband-lte-and-new-devices/

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[Bigballer]

T-Mobile is doing the same but are calling t wideband LTE.

T-Mobile Uncarrier 4.0 event - ETFs paid off, Wideband LTE and New Devices | TmoNewsTmoNews

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I don't think tmobile has the spectrum to do 20x20 mhz spectrum in Chicago. I think the most they can do is 15 x 15 mhz.

 

[Almeuit]

I don't think tmobile has the spectrum to do 20x20 mhz spectrum in Chicago. I think the most they can do is 15 x 15 mhz.

Probably not yet but I'm sure they are planning for it down the road.

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[dpham00]

T-Mobile is doing the same but are calling t wideband LTE.

http://www.tmonews.com/2014/01/t-mo...t-etfs-paid-off-wideband-lte-and-new-devices/

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Correct, it is the same.

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[dpham00]

I don't think tmobile has the spectrum to do 20x20 mhz spectrum in Chicago. I think the most they can do is 15 x 15 mhz.

Tmobile has 30mhz aws spectrum in Chicago. Still enough to get 84mbps.

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[zorak950]

More speed is great, but I'm with Closingracer: there's a point of diminishing returns. T-Mobile needs to be focused on expanding its LTE coverage, not upgrading it. Slow 4G isn't holding them back: a legacy 2G network covering most of the country is.

 

[Bigballer]

More speed is great, but I'm with Closingracer: there's a point of diminishing returns. T-Mobile needs to be focused on expanding its LTE coverage, not upgrading it. Slow 4G isn't holding them back: a legacy 2G network covering most of the country is.

Edge is going to be converted to LTE by next year.....

couple that with the 700 mhz spectrum tmobile bought. THis year and next year look very promising for tmobile.

 

[Almeuit]

More speed is great, but I'm with Closingracer: there's a point of diminishing returns. T-Mobile needs to be focused on expanding its LTE coverage, not upgrading it. Slow 4G isn't holding them back: a legacy 2G network covering most of the country is.

It is? Didn't you read where they said they are converting 50% of their edge network to LTE by the end of 2014? .

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[zorak950]

It is? Didn't you read where they said they are converting 50% of their edge network to LTE by the end of 2014? .

Future tense. Let's see it happen. Then let's see them convert the other 50%. Data coverage has been T-Mobile's Achilles' heel for far too long. I've never had a complaint about my data speeds where I can get data; only that outside the city, I can still rarely get data at all.

Like I said, I've got nothing against them upgrading their LTE network, but expansion needs to be the priority.

 

[raino]

Correct, it is the same.

Just so I understand, is XLTE simply an umbrella term for Verizon's band 4 LTE networks (5x5, 10x10, 20x20...whatever it may be,) or does it specifically refer to 20x20 deployments of their band 4 (i.e. what TMO calls wideband?)

 

[Almeuit]

Just so I understand, is XLTE simply an umbrella term for Verizon's band 4 LTE networks (5x5, 10x10, 20x20...whatever it may be,) or does it specifically refer to 20x20 deployments of their band 4 (i.e. what TMO calls wideband?)

Yep.

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[20degrees]

What's the point in that kind of speed with limited data?

 

[raino]

What's the point in that kind of speed with limited data?

voLTE, down the line.

 

[20degrees]

voLTE, down the line.

Then they'll go back to charging for minutes and text too.

 

[zorak950]

The greatest virtue of VoLTE is that once it's in place, you can do away with your legacy network completely and just have every tower churning out LTE. That's got to be good.

 

[dpham00]

Just so I understand, is XLTE simply an umbrella term for Verizon's band 4 LTE networks (5x5, 10x10, 20x20...whatever it may be,) or does it specifically refer to 20x20 deployments of their band 4 (i.e. what TMO calls wideband?)

Verizon claims xlte doubles the LTE bandwidth, so not 5x5. But 10x10 would double. I am pretty sure Verizon has at least 20mhz aws everywhere. And in many places, 40mhz

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[dpham00]

What's the point in that kind of speed with limited data?

There are still those of us who have legacy unlimited data plans. Which are truly unlimited in every usage sense, as in unlimited hotspot officially, unlimited tablet data... Verizon is the only one offering that.

Now you do have to use a loophole to upgrade if you want a subsidized phone.

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