Comments on: Sprint Nextel to now concentrate on promoting their speed and data services http://business.techwhack.com/2690-sprint-nextel-iphone News and Views from the Business World Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:42:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mark Blee http://business.techwhack.com/2690-sprint-nextel-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-27523 Mark Blee Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:46:53 +0000 http://business.techwhack.com/2690/sprint-nextel-iphone/#comment-27523 Even on Sprint's 1x network the speeds are about the same as Cingular's EDGE. cingular adverages around 60 to 120Kbps, Sprint's 1x adverages are about the same. Sprint's EV-DO has been proven to be faster then Verizon's EV-DO. Verizon released a statement stating this. Cingular has not gotten anywhere near the speeds with their WCDMA as they claimed before they built it out. The iPhone is a fad device. It cost $600 and $50 a month for PDA data access. Sprint only changes $15 and they have better PDA's. On top of all of it Sprint is truly unlimited data, while both Verizon and Cingular have a cap (That they don't tell you about until it is too late!!) Sprint is doing the right thing, they just need to keep it up. Even on Sprint’s 1x network the speeds are about the same as Cingular’s EDGE. cingular adverages around 60 to 120Kbps, Sprint’s 1x adverages are about the same. Sprint’s EV-DO has been proven to be faster then Verizon’s EV-DO. Verizon released a statement stating this. Cingular has not gotten anywhere near the speeds with their WCDMA as they claimed before they built it out. The iPhone is a fad device. It cost $600 and $50 a month for PDA data access. Sprint only changes $15 and they have better PDA’s.
On top of all of it Sprint is truly unlimited data, while both Verizon and Cingular have a cap (That they don’t tell you about until it is too late!!)

Sprint is doing the right thing, they just need to keep it up.

]]> By: John Petr http://business.techwhack.com/2690-sprint-nextel-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-27076 John Petr Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:54:15 +0000 http://business.techwhack.com/2690/sprint-nextel-iphone/#comment-27076 Sprint's EV-DO and EV-DO Rev A data services are much superior to AT&T's EDGE. But iphone comes with 802.11 capabilities in addition to AT&T's EDGE. Although iphone users who use it primarily for entertainment will just use the 802.11 connection, business customers will probably not switch to iphone because AT&T's low rate data connectivity may cost them more than just the 500 bucks they will pay for the iphone! Sprint’s EV-DO and EV-DO Rev A data services are much superior to AT&T’s EDGE. But iphone comes with 802.11 capabilities in addition to AT&T’s EDGE. Although iphone users who use it primarily for entertainment will just use the 802.11 connection, business customers will probably not switch to iphone because AT&T’s low rate data connectivity may cost them more than just the 500 bucks they will pay for the iphone!

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