For the past few years we’ve heard cell phone carriers tout the virtues of LTE to us. Most of them have hopped on the bandwagon, and Verizon claims they’ll have North America’s first LTE network running early this year. We haven’t heard many specifics from their testing, but we did hear something about TeliaSonera’s LTE network. The news, unfortunately, was not all good. While they did get a nice, speedy 5Mbps upstream, they couldn’t get the downstream to exceed 12Mbps. With T-Mobile and AT&T looking to release 21Mbps HSPA+ networks, that speed just won’t cut it. Again, that’s not necessarily indicative of Verizon’s network, but it certainly raises concerns about when we’ll actually see them deploy LTE in the States.
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