Hey there Thanks for that info, I had no idea.
Very much appreciated and I'll bear it in mind. On 2011-03-02, at 5:38 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > Actually, lets discuss this a little there are some interesting points here. > > The largest limiter is spectrum. Each tower only has so much bandwidth > (literal bandwidth) that it can use. This means you can only push so many > megabits over all for everyone on a given facility. The more spectrum you > have the more send and receive sessions you can have in parallel but the key > thing to remembr it's a shared resource. As these companies use new > technologies you also notice they add more spectrum in different bands. The > newer technologies have more bands and use spectrum differently as well as > more frequency space but the end result is more bandwidth and more efficient > use of the available room. So the more pipe that's available, the more > spectrum and better the technology you can use more devices in the same > allocated resource level so you can give users more slices to use or drop > costs, any combination of moves based on the larger facility. > > As for ATT and Verizon in the states, try them both. Don't just assume that > ATT sucks and VZ does not. I did this and was proven quite wrong. ATT is 2 > - 3 times faster and has some more advanced calling features do to the > different technologies used. VZ is good no doubt but has problems as well > and in the end it depends on the specific geography you will be using your > device. I would definitely try both side by side though, it's not as cut and > dry as you make it. > > Thanks > Scott > > > > > On Mar 2, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Tyler wood wrote: > >> Rogers and at&t share the same towers, or at least rogers in Canada bought >> them from the US. >> >> No wonder signal, overall network speed suck here, though I'm not getting >> any dropped calls. >> >> I must say though, I can't wait to move to the us and go on vz. From what my >> partner tells me (he has the droid x), vz has quite a good network. >> >> On 2011-03-01, at 8:29 PM, James Mannion wrote: >> >>> I really think it is because mobile networks are not able yet to >>> handel people putting unlimited demands for data access on them. Any >>> network has its upper limits and mobile networks are still less able >>> to handel demand than land line networks. If they put limits that >>> serve a purpose, but are not over limiting, that keeps people from >>> constantly doing things like streaming the most data intensive video >>> stuff and whatever else they can fid with no concern of any >>> consequences to themselves, bringing down the entire network so nobody >>> can do anything and then everybody is left unhappy. People will be a >>> little more reasonable with what they do if there is a cost to them. >>> Having said that, AT&T's netwrk can not even handel the limited use in >>> some areas including the city where I live. During the day I can not >>> even pull up a small web page on AT&T's 3g network. It simply times >>> out. I can not stream pandora, I can barely use the weather app to >>> pull its small amount of data. Since my contract is almost up, I have >>> signed on with Verizon and I can tell you that right now their network >>> actually works in my area. My understanding is that this exact >>> situation is not uncommon at all. Maybe Verizon will manage their >>> resources and growth in a way that does not create another AT&T. >>> >>> On 3/1/11, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> what's the theory behind VZ droping its unlimited data plan? read more: >>>> >>>> http://bit.ly/e7omui >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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