[quote=CDMA ENG]Yes… You are correct but it is only because VZW has decided to play silly games. I really don’t know what they are afraid of… Even ATTs CEO said ATT wont catch up for years… The LTE its self is not any different.
As for the speculation it is speculation but there is a long history of companies doing this and in the end capitulating…
The device today are just different models of the same device so getting a phone on another network is kind of a mute point… There is an equilivent at the competitions…
Lastly, and you are probably aware of this… No matter who you go with the voice part of the phone is still on a 3G network… So for ATT your voice calls are still on UMTS… VZW… CDMA… With the data portion of being done by LTE…
BUT here is the dirty little seceret about that… For CMDA phones the smart phones monitor the EVDO channel… That channel burts a 16 Watt pilot as compared to the 2.4 Watt pilot of its voice equilavent… What the phone really tells in “in bars” is Signal to Noise… Now remember your phone is monitoring the Data channel and it is telling you the coverage in terms of the data channel… Problem is that unless Data usage is really heavy on your serving cell the Data coverage appears better than your voice!
I am not positive but I believe the LTE will work similiar until the network loads up and drive the SNR down.
What I am saying is don’t let the data network fool you into thinking your voice coverage is better…
If you really want LTE go VZW… By the time your contract is up… ATT will be everywhere and you will have your options! Plus VZW scores much higher interms of Network quality for SD County.
It seems like it’s more than just stupid companies not wanting to play nice. Here’s an excerpt:
[quote=article]A report by Wireless Intelligence predicts there’ll be 200 LTE networks around the world by 2015, running on as many as 38 different frequency combinations. Moreover, the most common 700-900MHz spectrum range could account for just 16 percent of these networks. This stands to make carrier locking and band incompatibility on handsets even bigger hassles than they are today.[/quote]
