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AT&T plans to quintuple 3G speeds in 2009!?
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Posted by: WeatherPilot

Looks like att might have a software upgrade in store to create faster 3G network speeds in 2009. The story links are below. Any takes on the validity this?

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/1...speeds-in-2009/

and:

http://www.electronista.com/article...bps.3g.in.2009/

Posted by: jburn

this is nice and all but can they hurry up and expand there coverage area so some of us can actually experience so 3g speed on there network

Posted by: MyPyle

they need to expand the coverage area

Posted by: formercanuck

Exactly... what is it if many areas can't even get beyond 240kbps.
They'd better start building out backhaul as well.

Posted by: zephxiii

The crunchgear article is stupid as hell lol. Throttling bandwidth, yea right lol.

I wonder how they are coming up with this magical 20mbit number...two channels of category 9 @ 10.2mbit down and not counting upload........or is it really a combined number of cat. 10 @ 14.4 down and cat.6 @ 5.76 up etc.

Posted by: autumninchicago

Speed is nice but coverage is more important for most people. The current Phone CPUs is not powerful enough to take advantage of those speed anyway.

Posted by: i0wnj00

That would be nice if AT&T would quintuple 3G coverage instead.
Basic UMTS speeds work for me since 20 mb/sec isn't a realistic number to attain anyways even if a data card was used. Maybe a short burst, but not sustained speed.

Posted by: JoeyDee

I think he's confusing 20Mbps with 20Kbps :P Sorry, the killer is the 100Mbit quote. It basicly shows you how little corporate high ups know.

Posted by: DRC72

Quote:

Originally Posted by formercanuck

Exactly... what is it if many areas can't even get beyond 240kbps.
They'd better start building out backhaul as well.

How many T1s would be needed to support those speeds?

Posted by: JoeyDee

T1s are 1.5MBits each if i remember right...

Posted by: bobolito

Forget T1s, they should be building backhaul with fiber instead. T1s are so 1990s.

Posted by: JoeyDee

well, according to my old at&t rep, for my area, they use T3s for data...

Posted by: enigma99a

no, they don't use T3s currently. They are using mutiple T1s at sites to achieve speed. A lot of sites launched with 2 T1s, which was fine for a couple megabits, but now more transport is being added. Also, there is a huge push to go 100% HSUPA by the time the iphone launches next month. It's going to close, but looks like it should happen by the first part of June.

Posted by: zephxiii

very cool, does this mean everywhere should be 3.6mbit as well? I wonder what spec the iphone will be...hoping for greater than 3.6.

Posted by: bobolito

I'd be happy if the iPhone is just 3.6. The real-life speed averages about 1mbps. Do we really need more than that on an iPhone? That kind of speed can handle streaming video just fine as well as loading graphics and webpages just fine. May not be so good for downloading/saving large videos or files, but I rather use my computer for that. So for 99% of the usage, a 3.6HSDPA should be fine.

Posted by: DRC72

If AT&T's cell sites are located in an AT&T landline area, then there should be no issues getting more T1s installed quickly at their sites. The last AT&T cell site I was in had 7 T1s installed, but I think that was shared between GSM, TDMA, and AMPS at the time.