AT&T Pins 4G Label to Existing Network

Re:AT&T Pins 4G Label to Existing Network by rorrr on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @09:35PM (#2073645)

The only solution is see for Verizon and Sprint is to advertise actual speeds.

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Re:AT&T Pins 4G Label to Existing Network by dhbanes on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @10:57PM (#2073890)

The problem with that is, they will be held accountable for delivering those advertised speeds.

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Re:AT&T Pins 4G Label to Existing Network by guana on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:29AM (#2074809)

In 3G (or 4G, whatever) the speeds are dependent on a lot of things you can't really control: amount of users, location, the 3g device, weather, etc etc. So you can never really promise "with us you'll get at least x megabytes per second!". On the other hand, you could advertise the "maximum speed", which is also meaningless since nobody ever gets that.

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Re:AT&T Pins 4G Label to Existing Network by alexqgb on Thursday January 06, 2011 @02:36AM (#2074484)

In other words, they're upset that AT&T's vacant marketing hype posing as a genuine technical specification is diminishing the value of their own (and better established!) marketing hype posing as a genuine technical specification.

How...frustrating.

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Re:AT&T Pins 4G Label to Existing Network by cosmicray on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @11:24PM (#2073968)

and every consumer should multiply those speeds by 0.707

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