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AT&T Says LTE Can Still Offer Speeds Up To 1 Gbps (dslreports.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via DSL Reports: ATT CTO Andre Fuetsch said at a telecom conference last week that the company's existing LTE network should be able to reach speeds of 1 Gbps before the standard ultimately gets overshadowed by faster 5G tech. The new 5G technology isn't expected to arrive until 2020 at the earliest, so LTE has a lot of time left as the predominant wireless connectivity. "There's a lot of focus on 5G -- but don't discount LTE," Fuetsch said. "LTE is still here. And LTE will be around for a long time. And LTE has also enormous potential in that, you'll be capable of supporting 1 gigabit speeds as well." 5G will help move past 1 Gbps speeds, while also providing significantly lower latency. "You'll see us sharing more about the trial activity we're doing," said Fuetsch. "Everything that's being [tested] right now is not standard, it's all sort of proprietary. But this is an important process to go through because this is how you learn and how it helps define standards."
So now, they can start throttling even sooner!
Solving Unix problems since 1989...
Now we just need to work on the price per GB.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
I like how they are talking about 5g like it is a technology instead of just a marketing moniker...
All this speed doesn't mean anything with data caps. Personally I just don't give a fuck because of this.
Will they run 10GIG or more to each tower?
4G, 5G. its all rubbish. I'm on Verizon and a lot of the time around here, the back end is always overloaded. Sure you always get 4G LTE signal everywhere, but the throughput is slow as fuck. No one actually measures the back end (from the tower to the network)
Same shit with my AT&T Uverse at home. I pay for a fuck load of bandwidth. I have fiber going right into my garage, brand new sub division. It doesn't work for shit after 6pm, and I'm actually better off using my cell phone for internet access.
then why the fuck can i sit in any one of a dozen different downtowns when traveling for business across your service area and barely pull a half meg?
if at&t is spouting this kind of bullshit that only means they don't want to actually invest in 5g, at least not anywhere outside of their top 5 markets anyway and they're trying to fill our heads with the idea that 4g is 'good enough'.
Heck, I'd be happy with 100mb speed. Most of the time out here in flyover country, you consider 10mb to be flying!
Some people honestly believe that mobile is going to beat fiber, and it's all due to this dishonest marketing.
Fast enough that it's highly usable for more than mobile "data light", so it has inherent value to data consumers, allowing both the carriers to charge for it and for consumers to consume it fast enough that they will pay high fees for large consumption tiers, fat overages when they exhaust their allocation or both.
If 5G pans out anything like the hype, carriers will have to change their pricing strategies. As most Slashdot posters note, you'd burn through current allocations ridiculously fast.
But as much as people like data, there's also a limit as to how much they will consume. I wonder if AT&T is worried that the pricing changes likely necessary with 5G speeds will cross some line on a chart that causes data to be less profitable. A lot of people will end up staying within their plan or find lower end plans usable.
I have been able to hit 50mbit speeds in 3 locations in America and most of them are right by Airports. It is like they only care about Airports. I agree with what everyone says here, what is the point in making any of it faster if they just cap/throttle everything and engage in deceptive marketing to avoid negative PR over it? ATT's CTO Andre Fuetsch has forgotten what it is like to have a data cap...sure they want to Extend LTE out, they want to get a great ROI...who cares about everything else. 5g? What would we ever need that for, lets not think about it... It is pathetic that we let these guys have these conferences where they can continue to swap their delusions around and keep the idea alive that the consumer does not get it. We do get it. ATT is a horrible business and Andre Fuetsch is a horrible businessman. If every other cell provider was not just as horrible as ATT, then we could do something about it but when they want to get together and keep prices high to make something off of nothing...then we cannot win.
Considering AT$T can't even deliver currently advertised LTE speeds in Denver, I have serious reservations about their ability to deliver gigabit LTE *anywhere*.
ATT can offer speeds up to 1Gbps.
They won't, obviously... but they can
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Don't throttle, no caps, no 'network management'. Just about 99% of everything else on a mobile computer (i.e. SmartPhone) is useless. The 1% I think would be the 4k streaming service that you want to cast to your 4k TV. Everything else is just marketing assholes.
but I'm pretty sure I saw it drop from the bull. What is LTE, you may ask? A marketing term. Stands for Long Term Evolution. Nothing technical about it. There is no RFC defining LTE. Tweak your protocol to get an extra 2% throughput? That's LTE. Come up with a completely different protocol only your network supports? That's LTE.
Love your comment.
As to LTE still being around for a long time, my cell phone still makes a 3G connection often. (I don't live in a city.) So I'm guessing I'll eventually get LTE at my house regularly, instead of switching between 3G and LTE.
They need to build more towers instead of asking the government for more spectrum. The more towers they have, the less spectrum they need. But then spectrum is what gives them a monopoly.
I'd be happy to get COSISTENT SPEEDS, even if it's just 3-5Mbps. I can barely stream audio/video without being stuck buffering all the time.
Thanks for admitting 4G, 5G, nG is all marketing hype and people are not getting the super fast speeds you claim.
While 100G will be able to download 1 PB/sec of data, bandwidth caps will remain at $1/MB
So you can download enough data to be disconnected from the network in 15 minutes. Sounds great.
That also fries your face off when Russians hack American Burger King franchises.
gtfo FBI.
The standard is developed by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and is specified in its Release 8 document series, with minor enhancements described in Release 9.
The whole point of LTE (as should be obvious from the monicker "Evolution") is that it is intended to be an evolving standard. The system was designed in such a way as to be flexible enough to support backwards compatability while keeping parts of the system modular enough to grow without having to throw out the whole system.