AT&T Announces 4G LTE Plans
by Brian Klug on January 5, 2011 12:18 PM EST- Posted in
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Anand and I rushed from the LG press conference over to AT&T's, where CEO Ralph de la Vega has just announced the carrier's LTE plans for the future. Some 20 LTE devices, including tablets, modems, smartphones, and hotspots are coming throughout 2011.
First up, AT&T has completed its HSPA+ deployment in the US, and will continue to expand backhaul - roughly 2/3rds of traffic is already being transacted over expanded backhaul, with speeds of 6 megabits/s being possible.
I've seen speeds around 6 or 7 megabits/s in the best coverage areas on AT&T without touching an HSPA+ baseband, so it's likely that once more AT&T-band-compatible HSPA+ devices come we'll see even faster speeds. AT&T's LTE deployment will be completed by 2013.
It appears that AT&T is also taking a nod from T-Mobile and calling HSPA+ "4G" as well.
Newly christened Motorola mobility is launching the Motorola Atrix 4G, which it claims is the world's most powerful smartphone. More on that in Anand's article.
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caboob - Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - link
Is there any improvement in latency? I know that 3G latency is horrible at 300-600 ms.mcnabney - Thursday, January 6, 2011 - link
LTE has amazing latency - far superior to HSPA+ or Wimax. 30-50ms - hell, that beats by cable connection.EmilyGreen - Monday, December 24, 2012 - link
Everyone is always busting AT&T's chops, but it's doing pretty well rolling out the 4GLTE. Even faster than some phones are adding it to their capabilities (hear that, Nexus?). As a graphics designer in New York, I can't imagine trying to send large image files over anything less.