http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/ Engadget Mobile Comments for MetroPCS hoping to roll out LTE in 2010 http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 7:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 8:06PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 8:16PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/
In 2007, WiMAX was accepted to become an official part of IMT-2000, meaning that it's officially recognized as a "3G" standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMT-2000
3GPP, the standards group in charge of defining LTE, announced last year that they also applied LTE to be a part of the IMT-2000 standard as well.

However, 3GPP is in the works of the next step that they believe will be true "4G" technology, LTE-Advanced. IEEE is also working on their own "4G" technology with 802.16m. Both are looking to have a peak DL speed of 1Gbps.]]>Mar 3rd 2009 8:35PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 11:18PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/
In terms of "The generation after 3G", LTE is definitely that. LTE is based upon a high bandwidth low latency TCP/IP network, with high level services like voice and messaging running over the IP stack rather than using separate fixed bandwidth channels like prior systems. WiMAX, LTE, and the stalled UMB standard are all characterized by that architecture.

I think reasonable people can call LTE 4G. It's certainly next generation.]]>Mar 4th 2009 2:11PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 8:29PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Can't beat that with a stick]]>Mar 3rd 2009 8:46PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/May 1st 2009 2:40PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 9:21PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 9:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 4th 2009 1:15AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 9:53PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 3rd 2009 9:56PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/Mar 4th 2009 12:40AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/03/03/metropcs-hoping-to-roll-out-lte-in-2010/
Voice = $50
Data = $25
Text = $10

It still adds up quickly, even if it is cheaper then other carriers.]]>Mar 4th 2009 1:36AM