AT&T's 4G LTE network alive and kicking in Atlanta; images show 25Mbps speeds

‘wow, i cant believe this!! me and my sister just got two i-pads for $42.77 each and a $50 amazon card for $9. the stores want to keep this a secret and they dont tell you.
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true once it goes live with phones and cards that number will shrink. however, lte in the front hspa in the back and i say again things are looking sweet for at&t’s LTE. But i remember that dude on pcmag when V launch its soft rollout burned thru 5GB in 32 minutes. that sucks. and if I’m throttled then I’m hoping its still hspa speeds I’m dealing with.

well that’s the thing with at&t’s hspa+. as an at&t subscriber looking for the best mifi deal, i compared verizon, at&t, & tmo and guess what… tmo had the truest hspa+ coverage in my area, norfolk, va. this leads me to believe that at&t is pursuing tmo to leverage their hspa+ while building up their lte. this way, at&t could kill 2 birds with one stone and focus on lte rather than building up their hspa+ the homegrown way. for at&t to build up their hspa+ on the back-end would be regressive when the push is now for lte. bottom line: if the at&t&tmo merger falls through… once your off lte, there will be no real hspa+… unless they decide to build that up and who knows how long it will take  

Thankfully guys like you weren’t around when we transitioned from 56 Kbps modems and ISDN to 6+ Mbps cable modems and ADSL or we’d all still be capped at 1 GB a month… since who the heck uses more than 1 GB a month on a 56 Kbps dialup modem anyway?

Thankfully, guys like me were around when we transitioned… since I’ve been using the interwebs since it was on a 9600 kbps modem.  Cable companies ARE looking to cap data.  And they ARE succeeding in many locations.  Despite Cable now using DOCSIS 3.0 for speeds approaching 100 mbps.

Thankfully for you though, people like me understand the fundamental differences between hardline services and air services.  This is over the air.  And air is an extremely finite resource.  The more data being transmitted through it, the worse the experience gets.  You can’t run a parallel line like you can with wireline services, you can’t split the node to a smaller group.  Look at wifi… go into an apartment complex and set up shop on a 2.4 ghz wireless N system, pair the channels so you get the full N experience… and watch how shitty your experience will be, and how your neighbors will hate you for clogging up the frequencies.  If you’re using more than 5 GB a month, in 2011, on a nomadic hotspot device… you aren’t using it for its intended purposes… which is not to replace wireline services, but supplement them.  And I’m a nomadic user, that happens to eat up over 1 GB every day thru my VPN on a *slow* day.  My hotspot is for the airport… a few times a month.  Not everyday use.

Where did he say anything about Verizon?

Verizon’s LTE went down because of an internal error with their systems not because the network was overloaded. I know this because my company helps manage the backhaul on those systems.

Also Verizon’s 4g is pretty solid even with traffic growing. I get anywhere from 8-15mb down and 2-5mb up at any point in the day. Verizon’s LTE will be deployed and far out pace ATT in no time flat.

yea but whereas verizons lte might be sweet and coverage outpacing at&t, once you fall off lte, you fall off the map literally. verizon’s 3g speeds are pitiful and i pity you once you step off the lte grid. the win-win in this case is to pair verizons lte coverage + tmo’s hspa+ backhaul… that would be sweet. that way data speeds would be much more consistent over the long-run.

well that’s how you know there’s a difference in services. The amount of complaints against AT&T’s, which are daily, compared to the amount against VZW’s…which was 1-2 days. I dunno..

Because there are more people that use AT&T, and AT&T experienced an 8000% growth over a single year? I dunno.

Such an unfortunetly misinformed statement. Let’s first start with the cause of that outage, a lightning strike at a switching center. The reason for the 4g lte rollout is to be able to increase capacity (and increase speeds) so that the future of cell use (data services) can be fullfilled. The bandwidth is provided by spectrum which is actioned off when it is freed up from other uses. VZW purchased over 90% of the available FCC spectrum actioned from the the analog to digital tv transition. We have the same spectrum nationwide, meaning we have more than enough capacity. The point of this transition is to allow for more heavy use, not compound the effect. Anyways if there were a point where the 4g network was overcapacity, you be kicked down to 3g. Thats not going anywhere for a decade at least. Just saying…lol

I have all my other lines with AT&T, plus I get great coverage with AT&T where I am. My LTE Verizon line is the only line I have with Verizon, plus I really don’t like their customer service, but they have a great product and thats why I used them, but as soon as AT&T offers the same product I’m switching.

Btw, I’m in Tampa, fl.