This probably won’t shock you, but tablets connected to 3G and 4G networks consume a lot more data than their smartphone equivalents. However, on Tuesday video optimization vendor Bytemobile reported exactly how much: tablets eat up three times more data than smartphones over the cellular network.
AT&T’s Chicago problem: Why LTE slows down in the Windy City
May 14, 2012
That severe drop-off in Chicago is explained by the fact that AT&T has only 10 MHz of 700 MHz spectrum in Chicago while it has 20 MHz in most markets, allowing it to match Verizon hertz for hertz. T-Mobile’s dual-carrier HSPA+ network was almost able to match AT&T’s LTE download performance, though AT&T still won out easily when it came to sending packets the other direction.
Sprint runs through shutdown of Nextel iDEN network
May 10, 2012
By shutting down its Nextel network, Sprint can reuse the spectrum to augment its existing CDMA and 4G LTE networks. Improvements in 3G and the move to 4G are part of the company’s broader overhaul of its network, designed to keep the company competitive with its larger rivals, which are already off to the races with their 4G LTE deployments.
AT&T, Sprint Promote LTE Phones With Unfinished Networks
May 10, 2012
While Verizon has been the quickest to build out an LTE network, AT&T has offered the iPhone for longer. AT&T has a larger base of Apple customers who may be looking to upgrade, but also more to lose if consumers defect in search of a more extensive network
Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History?
May 9, 2012
These figures show that smart phones, after a relatively fast start, have also outpaced nearly any comparable technology in the leap to mainstream use. It took landline telephones about 45 years to get from 5 percent to 50 percent penetration among U.S. households, and mobile phones took around seven years to reach a similar proportion of consumers. Smart phones have gone from 5 percent to 40 percent in about four years, despite a recession. In the comparison shown, the only technology that moved as quickly to the U.S. mainstream was television between 1950 and 1953.
Who’s Devouring AT&T’s Data Capacity?
April 26, 2012
What does a mobile network hosting 41.2 million smartphones look like? A network where growth in data traffic far exceeds data revenue growth. AT&T is selling a lot of smartphones and data plans, but even millions of new iPhone customers don’t fully account for the huge spikes in mobile data traffic AT&T is experiencing.
