Carriers should be focusing more on coverage and improving real world speeds rather than upgrading to higher theoretical limits. Considering many home cable and DSL connections max out at 5 Mbps, do we really need to go that much faster now? What good is a 7.2 Mbps service when real world speeds only see me get 300 kbps or no coverage at all? Get back to me when real world speeds reach 5 Mbps over HSPA.
since 7.2mbit is shared by all users on teh channel..that pretty much does increase real world speeds.........I mean honestly, how do you come up with the idea that boosting theoretical max speeds would have zero effect on average speeds?
@zephxiii - because the HSPA upgrades don't mean crap when they've got a T1 backhaul still. 7.2mbps HSPA hardware is nothing more than expensive marketing hype when 1.5mbps is as fast as you can get on the T1 that ATT seems to have little desire in upgrading.
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Carriers should be focusing more on coverage and improving real world speeds rather than upgrading to higher theoretical limits. Considering many home cable and DSL connections max out at 5 Mbps, do we really need to go that much faster now? What good is a 7.2 Mbps service when real world speeds only see me get 300 kbps or no coverage at all? Get back to me when real world speeds reach 5 Mbps over HSPA.
since 7.2mbit is shared by all users on teh channel..that pretty much does increase real world speeds.........I mean honestly, how do you come up with the idea that boosting theoretical max speeds would have zero effect on average speeds?
@zephxiii - because the HSPA upgrades don't mean crap when they've got a T1 backhaul still. 7.2mbps HSPA hardware is nothing more than expensive marketing hype when 1.5mbps is as fast as you can get on the T1 that ATT seems to have little desire in upgrading.