Paul,<div><br></div><div>LTE is Long Term Evolution (seems telcos cook up more 'alphabet soup' than the military). Functionally it is 4th gen technology that is ~ 10 times faster than 3rd gen systems (CDMA & current GSM). Technically it is a total IP system, i.e., both the voice and the data are IP packets. You may have noticed AT&T commercials to the effect that you could talk & download simultaneously with AT&T but not Verizon, LTE will fix that.IIRC, even Sprint, currently using Wimax for their 4G system, has plans to implement LTE at some point in the future. So when ALL the majors go to LTE, coverage should become a non-issue (again, assuming they don't do anything evil regarding roaming charges). It is also a GSM technology, so should eventually work worldwide so all phones will be "world phones" (I also have a daughter who works with MSF, leaves for Nigeria on Tu, so would be nice for her to have one device that could work anywhere just by swapping out a sim chip where she currently has two handsets). </div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> Assuming roaming fees won't be an issue when all carriers go with LTE<br>
> (what 2 more yrs till it is fully built out), coverage concerns should<br>
> become a thing of the past. Maybe that is what Verizon & AT&T are<br>
> concerned about?<br>
</div>what is LTE & why should I know about it??<br>
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<font color="#888888">Paul Cartwright<br>
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