Want LTE-Advanced? Not so fast...

[pyroscott]

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 22 January 2012

 

LTE-Advanced will revolutionize the way we connect to the internet, but it will be quite a while until we see it on our handsets. LTE-Advanced will allow carriers to piece together all the different pieces of bandwidth into one big chunk, but handsets will need multiple LTE Radios and BIG batteries. as detailed in this article, we will need some much higher capacity batteries in our phones before we start thinking about LTE-Advanced, unless we want a couple hours of battery life...

[S4GRU]

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 22 January 2012

 

Thanks for the post. I keep telling people that in the shrt term the only aspect of LTE Advanced that consumers are going to benefit from is aggregated carriers. Too many folks believe that if a wireless co installs LTE Advanced as is on their existing networks, that their speeds are going to go up. And that's not going to happen.

[legion125]

Migrated from Original Forum. Originally Posted 22 January 2012

 

I see the industry maturing in about 3 years after VoLTE is developed and deployed. Obviously Verizon has the lead with AT&t coming in second when it starts deploying next year. Sprint again, will be a distant third when it gets in in 2015(?), but at least it will beat T-Mobile by light-years.