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Originally Posted by emil10001 View Post
Both AT&T and Verizon are planning LTE rollouts on their recently acquired 700MHz blocks within a couple of years. Verizon (in conjunction with Vodaphone) has stated that they plan to start testing LTE this year, in hopes of a 2010 launch.

From what I've seen on respective wikipedia pages, LTE looks faster, and I'm not sure how much faith I have in Sprint rolling out WiMax in the near future (as they've been saying that they'll start since mid last year, and we were supposed to have it here in Boston pretty close to now).
That's what I'm talking about, on the one hand you state the provider promises then on the other state the previous promises that failed to come true yet. I don't read or believe anything coming from the big boyz. It isn't about one being a little faster than the other, they are both fast enough.

These companies aren't going to give us what we really want unless they are forced to by somebody new and less evil (looking at you google). Why would they give us something like the internet you get at home (even at *only* 1-3Mb) when they can ding you .15 each way for a text message and .05/kb for data and gawd forbid you want to tether which then means mortgage the house.

North America might be use to these tactics but I'm not and choose not to use any of the existing services other than simple internet from a real ISP. My N8 works peachy as my primary phone and entertainment device over WiFI, getting it to be even more moble just like all those bogus ads would be sweet.