LTE Verizon Wireless network will be slow

LTE Verizon Wireless network will slow company Verizon Wireless has promised to become the first U.S. operator that rozverne wireless network to fourth generation LTE (Long Term Evolution) in the country. The press service of Verizon. Network launching as early as 2010, but the speed of its work nenamnoho exceed similar indicators WIMAX.

According to the Verizon, the average speed of downloading data to the new network will be 5.12 megabits per second, and flooding - 2-5 megabits per second. For comparison, standard WIMAX, serving wireless, offers to download data at speeds up to 10 megabits per second and give a speed of 3.6 megabits per second. So both networks differ only time delay (latency). In the LTE network this option is four times lower than in any of the third-generation networks that operate today.

In addition, it is unknown how much cost you transition to new standards so Meanwhile, Verizon promises that the 2013 area network LTE will exceed the territory covered by the 3G-setyamy company.

Recall that in 2010 the EU had to invest 18 million euros in the development of communication technology fourth generation Long Term Evolution, allowing the wireless exchange of data at speeds up to 100 megabits per second. Work on the implementation of its being in Europe in 2004. It is assumed that LTE will soon be as common standard, like GSM, developed 25 years ago.

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