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2011-10-06 , 06:39
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Originally Posted by buchanmilne View Post
There is a reason. Marketing.

In South Africa, most cell towers are backhauled by 155Mbps ATM. One network has all their towers backhauled by 600Mbps metro-ethernet. Most networks advertise 42Mbps, while the network with 600Mbps backhaul everywhere advertises 21Mbps.

Please tell me which one is going to give you better bandwidth and latency ...
That cannot be answered since the bottleneck could be anywhere. You also haven't given any real latency information, only vague information about their infrastructure. The best possible way is to be pragmatic about it and test it, much like the available tests there are of HSPA+ and regular HSDPA. But rest assured that if the one with 21Mbps could legally advertise a higher bandwidth but isn't, then they are not doing their job properly. The launch of HSPA+ has been a "soft launch" at least here where I live so marketing has nothing to do with it.
Last edited by Cue; 2011-10-06 at 08:14.