Pedro Villegas
MIS
How LTE Changes Mobility
When choosing a broadband provide you
have to look at all the elements. Dependability and price are two of the
biggest factors in choosing a broadband provider. According to a recent survey
Verizon and AT&T are the two top choices for mobile broadband devices but
both these companies don't offer unlimited data plan for their new customers.
So if you're a new customer and want to go with Verizon or AT&T you'll end
up spending more for your data that others.
Another aspect you must look at when
choosing your broadband provider is the bandwidth limitations. Considering your
organizations mobile interaction and plans on using the cloud service this
takes up a lot of bandwidth and will hurt reliability of the LTE.
The last step in picking your provider
is the actual speed of the system. Verizon for example provide an average of 5
mbps 12 mbps on download and 2 mbps to 5
mbps on a uploads. But recent research groups measure an average download
speeds of 23.6mbps and upload speeds of15.2mbps on AT&T's network in
Houston.
In the future speeds will go even
higher. That's because current networks use either 5MHz radio channels. However
LTE supports 20 Mhz radio channels what this does will boost performance in
double the amounts that can be done.
With all the data that has been
presented to me I would have to choose Verizon. One of three reasons Verizon
holds 68% of the market. To do this they must have a reliable system that
people know and trust the second is the price if you are already a Verizon
customer you don't have to pay for data you can have unlimited data plan. In
the third would be how much coverage Verizon has with the LTE service.
Comments by Oliver Allen
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I really like your comments and explanation of the LTE Changes Mobility project. I agree completely with your idea and thoughts of dependability of price being two big factors. Your use of facts like recent surveys by Verizon and AT&T make a solid proof of your argument, which helps prove the main point of the article and paper of yours. Picking your provider leads to a lot of thought and using the statistics you provided as well as the article can lead to a great choice in network use. I currently use AT&T without 3g or 4g network chargers and I never have dropped calls and I get signal everywhere I go, but I do not use internet because I have a horrible phone. Bandwidth, MHz, Mbps are all major factors in the quality of the phone if it is trying to use a LTE service like Verizon or AT&T. Verizon is definitely better off though because the data plans are solid if you are already in one and Verizon has the upside of the market. Overall I like you article and ideas, good job.