When I first heard that iOS 5.1 was rebranding HS something or other to 4G, I felt mildly annoyed that my 4S would soon be showing me essentially an AT&T marketing message sometimes.
Now that I have an iPad with LTE, I'm annoyed. For an LTE device this marketing stuff actually does genuinely confuse. Now that I think more, I'm suspecting that this was the real goal: having iPhone 4S users see a 4G display isn't really that big a deal. What does help them, though, is having iPad HD users not go around saying "I never see 4G!" Looking at it another way, I got 7 Mbps downstream on my iPad HD without LTE (but displaying 4G). Verizon has LTE here. It would be sad for reviewers to focus on the icons displayed rather than the performance. Verizon's slowest 3G coverage is exceedingly slow. AT&T's fastest 3G is really fast. Perhaps the display should be a bit rate display instead of a modulation scheme display? I mean, do you really care what protocol gets you your bits? Thanks, gopi@iPhone On Mar 16, 2012, at 15:03, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 16, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Hunter Hillegas wrote: > >> She's full of it. There are only one set of towers. >> >> Keep in mind that AT&T is now calling HSPA+ 4G. The map you posted doesn't >> say LTE, it just says 4G. >> >> You can see the LTE map here: http://www.att.com/network/ >> >> There is no LTE in Seattle yet. > > Yep! > I just talked with a rep moments ago and she said exactly that! > She admitted AT&T is not being clear on what to call their networks. > So yeah, no LTE in Seattle yet. > > I called Verizon, gave them my address, and was told LTE is supported in my > area. > > AT&T could not tell me when LTE will come to Seattle. > > K > > >> >> On Mar 16, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: >> >>> They said that LTE was not supported in my area (West Seattle) for DATA on >>> iPad. >>> But when I check for 4G coverage in my area, I see this: >>> http://www.kevincallahan.org/4GcoverageWestSeattle.png >>> >>> She said that it IS supported for an LTE phone device, including DATA on an >>> LTE phone in my area. >>> >>> She said the towers handling data for phones are different than towers >>> handling data for iPads. >>> >>> She couldn't tell me when LTE data for iPads would be supported in my area. >>> >>> I wonder how accurate this information from this particular AT&T specialist >>> is ? >> > > > _______________________________________________ > iPhone-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
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