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.
