I live in Tampa, and when I got my Evo on launch day, the sprint rep at Radio Shack said that we would be getting 4G AT THE LATEST by end of August...
He also said it would cover from St. Pete to 1-4 corridor, and Sarasota to Spring Hill, so if he wasn't BSing me, its going to be awesome for Florida.
o man that is great news I'm in between tampa and orlando constantly with home and school! constant 4g would be amazing. get my damn $10 premium worth! lol
OK... 4G kicked in after 5+ minutes of waiting. I'm not terribly happy with what my $10/mo buys me, however. The download speed is twice as fast, but 2Mb/s (3G) is just fine for just about everything and the upload speed is only about 25% better (700Kb/s up to about 900 Kb/s). With those 3G speeds, why do I need 4G (ignoring HD quality video streaming which I do not think is the primary reason people buy phones!)
I want 8-10 Mb/s down and 2 Mb/s up then I can get rid of my DSL line...
I know, I want it all... I might even pay $30/mo for that (are you listening Sprint?)!
did you get those speed on your phone or on a laptop/computer?
On the phone using the Kansas server (I don't pay Sprint $30 to allow for tethering and <sarcasm>there is no way in the world I would install a free application or root my phone to do so <\sarcasm>... )
Servers DO make a difference. These are the best numbers I could find. My default server (I forget which one it was) was terribly slow all of the time. If the server/network can't keep up to the wireless POP, then nothing else really matters.
I'm in south orange county. Will areas close to the upcoming 4G markets have coverage?
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