| When looking over the options available in wireless | | | | and a song can arrive on your computer in |
| coverage up to this point, some networks are | | | | seconds? When the signal is getting the power it |
| easy to define. 2G networks allow customers to | | | | is supposed to get, such operations would come |
| place calls and send text messages from a mobile | | | | in at one quarter of the time. In that sense, you |
| device - hardly an impressive feat these days. | | | | could call a network operating at this clip - a rate |
| The 3G network is the first wireless internet | | | | of 4 to 1 - a 4th generation network |
| network per se, though its focus is maybe below | | | | Above everything else, however, the best way |
| 50% on the internet. Since then, we've seen | | | | to define 4G coverage is by seeing where it can |
| improved versions of 3G coverage (3.5G, for | | | | take you on the map. With all of the years that |
| example), yet the 4G network is in place to | | | | went into developing the network, the goal of |
| change everything. Can it be defined explicitly? | | | | total coverage in metropolitan areas has been |
| Symbol or acronym-wise, you are talking about | | | | realized. In other words, places which were known |
| the 4th generation wireless network. In terms of | | | | as being difficult to impossible for access on the |
| capabilities, it is fully able to handle calls and other | | | | 3G networks are included in the 4th generation |
| voice operations while its internet service is | | | | coverage zone. Dead spots have been minimized |
| unparalleled. Should 3G or 3.5G customers expect | | | | to the point where subscribers are unlikely to |
| more from a plan which utilizes the 4G network? | | | | ever come across any. |
| In the early going, as least, it seems to be certain | | | | Of course, the way some companies might try to |
| that 3G customers could get more from the new | | | | get you thinking 'new generation' would be to |
| network. One of the key distinctions is in the use | | | | charge otherworldly prices. In the case of 4th |
| of the internet. While 3G network developers | | | | generation service, the principle seems to be |
| were living in a cell world with internet on the | | | | working in reverse. The affordability of many |
| horizon, 4G network developers were going for a | | | | wireless packages is shocking to the consumer. If |
| solid internet network which could also easily | | | | it's a new network, how can it be so affordable? |
| handle phone calls. | | | | The question might be baffling or simply surprise |
| Another way to tell if a network has beaten out | | | | potential subscribers, but the reality is it would be |
| 3G coverage is to try on some downloads and | | | | much wiser to take advantage of the prices |
| see how the two compare. Coverage on the 4th | | | | before they start going up. After all, companies |
| generation network is said to be offering speeds | | | | usually offer breaks in the beginning, but they |
| 4 times greater than 3G service, so does this | | | | don't go on indefinitely. |
| mean that a movie will download 4 times faster | | | | |