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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by mikeash on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:12PM (#12746795)
I think you're better off bursting the data with the highest speed possible and getting off the spectrum ASAP. Doing IRC on 2G speeds, you'll be transmitting or receiving a decent chunk of the time. With LTE, you'll quickly send or receive your data, then go back to leaving the capacity available for others.
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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by snuxoll on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:05PM (#12748842)
This is part of the big drive to deploy "5G" network technologies in 2020. Better spectrum efficiency means you can support more customers doing data-intensive tasks with fewer cells, that was a big drive behind LTE as well.

With the bandwidth available to LTE connections already I think for the time being we're pretty much topped out on the bandwidth an individual terminal needs, just need to service more of them with less hardware.

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by ryao on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:41PM (#12755431)
If there are no incentives to get new hardware that supports technologies that service more people with less hardware, then deploying them will do nothing.
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