Tag Archives: 3.9G

Why are operators, except the unfortunate CDMA carriers, wasting time and money on LTE, when LTE-Advanced could be here by 2013?

Almost 3 years ago an article in this weblog discussed the relatively small difference in performance between HSPA+ and LTE.  Its perplexing to see GSM operators wasting time and money on LTE, when HSPA+ is good enough.  Especially when the speed difference between LTE and HSPA+ can be less than a factor of 2.  Latency […]