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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Willie3white:
FYI LYE in downtown NOLA

Seeing 20 up 10 down in small parts of downtown new orleans..Price was 249 here so go.figure
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jrdalrymple:
Trolling he may be... I'm curious though; what is the application for >8Mbps on a 0.4 MP device? 720p can be streamed pretty well at under 3Mbps, iPhone is the only device that comes even reasonably close to having a 720p display.

I do a bit of tethered teleworking, other than that I can't imagine any time that I need greater than 1Mbps or so to interact with the Internet on my phone.

What are you using your >8Mbps for?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jbizz:
where did you hear that? got a link?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] netnerd:
i guess you dont know what wifi is?

try to surf web on your phone with wifi, it loads webpages really quick! LTE is the same, loads webpages really fast!

maybe you like to wait 3-4 seconds for webpages to load, but i want my webpages to load within 1 second!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] JFizDaWiz:
I'm not trolling,I don't see a need for anything faster than 1MB/s on a phone. And type not paying for LTE, all data is the same price even 2g blackberry pay the same

Plus i'm coming from 75KB on Sprint so i'm just happy as can be right now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BrentR01:
AT&T has no love for Orlando, Florida... :(

Mickey Mouse must use Verizon....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xAnimal5:
Another reason why I got my sexy Note instead of the ****rocket :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jrdalrymple:
I've heard of it.

Incidentally, my 3g speeds here in Alaska are actually faster than I can get my local service providers to get me at my home, so for me WiFi<3g.

I guess we're just browsing different websites. I really don't have to wait any notable amount of time for any of the sites I browse to load pages. Admittedly I cannot provide conclusive evidence of this, but almost always I feel more like I'm waiting for page rendering than I am for data ingestion. I don't care enough about it to provide said conclusive evidence, as mentioned my Internet experience is fine at the <8Mbps speeds I get.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] propsizzle:
of course very few people actually need high speeds.

but i don't understand why some people are content with slower speeds.

i mean, if you are driving to work, driving 25 mph will get you there. and it's five times as fast as 5 mph. but if you can go 55, why would you not?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] JFizDaWiz:
I'm content as 8mbps is fast for a mobile device, do I want faster, of course, but i'm fine with it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KewlRobD:
I can't agree more. Everyone freaking out in this thread needs to relax a bit. I am registering 11mbps from my house 20 miles outside NYC on a HSPA+ signal. Like you, sure I would love more speed, but what I currently have is plenty. AT&T is doing the best they can to catch up to the compitition and role out LTE at a pretty fast pace. Like one other person said, it was at least 15 cities by the end of the year, not a limit of 15. NYC was promised by January and that is fine by me. It is to their benefit to have as many Americans covered by LTE by the Christmas rush. The bigger the city the more complex it is to role out.

Now they did promise "at least" 15 cities by end of 2011 covering 70 million americans. They also promised 170 million covered americans by the end of 2012. The individuals complaining purchased an LTE phone from a carrier that had only 5 LTE cities nationwide at the time of purchase. Said phone was only $149, $50 to $100 less than comparable top of the line smartphones. This same carier has met their promise of 15 cities 1.5 months ahead of schedule and are likely to launch more cites before the end of the year.

To all the whiney people, go get yourself some cheese, sit tight and soon enough you will have LTE service on your skyrocket. In the meantime enjoy one hell of a phone with or without LTE.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] -Kevlar-:
Waiting on Columbia SC.... I might have to travel to Charlotte just to test...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] milan03:
I'm not sure why you buy smartphones but when I buy an LTE device I expect to get the service at least in the largest cities in the nation. I can't enjoy nyc in nyc, next week ill be in san Francisco and my new piece of radio technology will be using a old overloaded legacy service.

You may be fine 20 miles out of nyc but for us that travel and actually benefit from faster data service this better be a bad joke.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] netnerd:
some people will be happy with anything!

i'm so glad my kids are getting D in school, atleast they smarter than those other kids that getting F ! hahahaha
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KewlRobD:
Are you for real? You bought the phone knowing that AT&T only had 5 cities and predicting a total of 15 my end of year. Which again I will mention they are way ahead of schedule on. LTE is coming, it is coming to all major cities in the near future. If you wanted a phone that had broader LTE coverage now you should have bought one from Verizon. You knew the deal when you bought the phone.

---------- Post added at 02:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:06 PM ----------

Are you comparing being patient about higher speeds coming to your area with not caring if your children are getting a good education? Wow the average maturity level in this thread is pretty low.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jade Eyed Wolf:
AT&T throttles LTE... That's why I don't really give a $H1T about it at this point. So I'm going to be a stubborn ol' SOB and stick to my good old fashioned smartphone unlimited plan for as loooooong as I can.

Yeah, I know I won't be driving the fancy new "Ferrari" that LTE is, but so what? As far as I can tell, what's the point of having all that speed if all it's gonna do is get you to the barriers and limitations that much faster? My old 3G "Honda Civic" might not be anywhere near as fast, but those things last for freaking ever, and I can drive it as long as I want without a care in the world otherwise. Not to mention, as more and more people are getting off the 3G highway and taking the LTE superhighway instead, that just means traffic is getting lighter for me, and I can go a little bit faster ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xAnimal5:
My IQ just dropped from reading your post

Guess the rumors about ****rocketers are true
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] netnerd:
are you freaking for real??

if you borrow my money, and said i pay you back tomorrow.

i expect my money tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, or tomorrow evening!

NOT at 11:58pm tomorrow!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silver03wrx:
Lol app who said app its great surfing the web at those speeds we can use flash videos youtube and browse the full web. I smell trolllllllling
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] milan03:
Am I for real? I bought the phone since I expect the LTE service to be available in most dense cities like NYC, SF, or LA, before San Juan or Oklahoma (nothing against those cities)!!! AT&T "met" their goal of 15 LTE markets by the end of 2011 but only 5 of those are considered some of the most populated US smartphone markets.

AT&T is a joke "announcing" 15 markets and avoiding the crucial and the most struggling 3G markets where their customers "surf" on EDGE-lyke speeds during the peak hours. I bought my Skyrocket on a launch day after their spokesperson announced NYC LTE coming "really soon".... Sorry bro, I don't buy into that corporate "in the near future" or "real soon" talk. Give me a freaking break.... :mad:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KewlRobD:
NYC was "real soon", not next week. They have met there 15 and it is only the middle of november, one can assume they will be firing up more cities before the holiday season. After all it is in there best interest to have LTE up to as many people as possible before christmas. The more people with LTE available the more people will be tempted to fork over the money for an LTE phone as a gift.

And don't you think they want to turn an entire city on at once? Ever think that NYC and like cities have many more cell sites than the smaller cities and hence they take onger to complete. It's not like they have one LTE role out team and they sent them to Oklahoma and San Juan before sending them onto NYC. They have reginal offices. The reginal office in a smaller city probably had a much easier time of meeting or exceeding their goals.

LTE is coming, AT&T is roling it out as fast as they can. Not becuase they care about you but because it is in there best interest and gains them more market share. Your acting like you have had the phone for months and they missed their promised launch in your city. You have only had your phone for 1o days at the most. As far as I know they have launched in every city they promised and usually luanched in those cities prior to the advertised date. They said Real Soon about NYC and 10 days is still on the early side fo real soon. So you need to get real and put things in perspective?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Daedalus_:
Stereotyping and name calling. I guess you're 12?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KewlRobD:
What does paying money by a promised date have to do with this? AT&T has promised a handful of things. They promised 15 cities and 70 million subscribers covered by end of year. Well they met the 15 cities promise way ahead of schedule and I imagine they are not done for reasons I stated in my other reply. I don't know if they cover 70 million yet but at the rate they are going I imagine they will meet that number if they haven't already.

They also promised certain cities by certain dates and they have met each and every one of those. They said real soon to NYC and that was 11 days ago. When they said real soon I reasonably assume they would be one of the cities turned on by the end of the year which was about 45 days away. So by reasonable expectations they are still way within their promised NYC launch range.

So what exactly did AT&T promise you by tomorrow that they seem to want to wait until 11:58pm to pay you? What a stupid analogy. Previously I mentioned my perception that this thread had low average maturity level. Well you can say the same about the intelligence level in this thread as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BKayrac:
doesn't att's spectrum holdings also play a part in what places will get lte first?

i can't post links but theres a few websites that show the 700mhz spectrum(i think att is using that for lte) and where they have it, which will get lte first

forgive me if i am wrong
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] netnerd:
Maybe you should ask att for a job!

They will love your bullshitz!

Att already announced the 15 markets for 2011!

My calendar is not showing 2012 for tommorrow!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] madmike23:
AT&T announced 15 cities by Nov 20th. There's still December... Well, we can be hopeful. :rolleyes:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KewlRobD:
I believe it was at least 15 cities by the end of 2011. The operative term here being at least. Do you really think they would be all out to get as many LTE sales by christmas as they can? Your just looking to ***** about the big company. I am not an advocate of big companies but dude you are *****ing about something you don't know the results of yet. This is what is sounds like to me.

WAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

So far this phone rocks, people within the HSPA+ area, which by the way is a lot, get great speeds without LTE. Most of our country doesn't even see those speeds on their home broadband connections? LTE will be awesome but will it really make that big of a difference.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] milan03:
They've been building their LTE infrastructure nationwide throughout 2011. They didn't just start 10 days ago once the phone was launched... They either lack strategy or infrastructure, and you defend AT&T like it's your family honor...

Coming soon, as fast as they can, real soon, etc,

is straight out of AT&T's PR book, and I'm sorry but I'm not buying into it. I've had AT&T in NYC for the past 5 years, and trust me, I know what it means "real soon" for in AT&T land.

And you said AT&T delivered to the "promised cities"... They never promise anything. Their statements are as vague as they can possibly get.

I've had my Verizon LTE smartphone since March 17th, and Verizon delivered not only in NYC, but to almost 200 million americans.

Just something to think about.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tampaboy1984:
Does Tampa Florida have ATT LTE coverage??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] netnerd:
When or where did att said "at least" 15?

Cus I can't find it!

The only place where there's "at least" is on your bullshitz!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] MakAttak:
Lollollol

Heh.. Now I have one good reason for being in Dallas over the city by the bay... Sorry... LOL

;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] silver03wrx:
That sucks lol. Mine sure is not. Although i wish it was
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mariol90:
http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=187&p=231

they also bought more spectrum (i think) after this. I bet most of the 24 MHz places will get LTE earlier than everyone else.

none of FL has ATT LTE coverage at the moment.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] KewlRobD:
If you have this experience with AT&T than why did you buy this phone in the first place? I am not defending AT&T but your *****ing about situation you knowingly put yourself in. If you hate AT&T so much than switch to Verizon instead of renewing your contract.

See I once purchased a camera from an online retailer. They stole my credit card info and never shipped me a camera. Going back to AT&T after your "experiences" would be like me going back to that same website and trying to buy another camera and acting surprised when they rip me off again. Obviously you feel like AT&T has ripped you off for years and yet you still keep doing business with them and than *****ing about it.

The bottom line is this. LTE IS COMING!!!!! And because AT&T wants to boost sales of LTE phone you got a really nice high end device for $100 off. Why don't you jump ship and go to verizon where you will be charged $299 for their similar devices.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacuy82:
26mbps is definitely faster than my 12-18mbps for $38/mth from Cox. I love this LTE thing..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] milan03:
You really don't read what people write don't you? I have both att and Verizon line, and I can experience first hand performance of both networks. Got skyrocket because I wanted to grandfather myself into the the unlimited LTE and also I really like the phone.

You can't comprehend that main topic of this thread is lack of LTE in crucial markets not simply lack of LTE.

Cool story bro about your camera, has nothing to do with att and LTE.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] heygrl:
Your 3G is slow and gimped thanks to a lack of HSUPA, and your home connection is embarrassingly slow. Verizon EV-DO can approach those speeds.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] brytonic:
I cannot wait for LTE to come out, but I am also experience plenty fast speeds on HSPA+ (FauxG) on their network.

My Skyrocket is pulling down 5.5 -> 6.5 on Speedtest and 1.2 up. Others I know who got the same phone or the Vivid are getting 7 and 8 down on their phones.

Does anyone need much more right now?? Yes it does take Youtube 2 - 3 seconds to start streaming with HQ on, guess I have more time to spare than others. 8)

Yeah, I got the GS2 and actually saved $13 by swapping for the Skyrocket within 30 days, I consider myself lucky.

Best phone I have ever used, hands down.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] CXENTE:
<<<< Houston TX. :) yaeee
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shansmi:
Long story short, there is no way to make everyone happy. Live with it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] socalphil:
To set up LTE is not as easy as turning on a switch. It needs new hardware in each tower. Then you need the backhaul capability to allow high data speeds. I am not sure how many towers have been upgraded.

Give them some time. The bigger cities have more towers and more bandwidth to handle more users per tower. The network will roll out gradually like 3G did. They are competing with verizon which has good LTE coverage, but had more time as they upgraded from EVDO to LTE. ATT just rolled out HSPA+ now they are playing catch up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BarryH_GEG:
Well, that's just fantastic. How's that LTE/CDMA dual-radio combo working out for you battery wise? Also, how are those EVDO speeds when LTE's not available? Travel to Europe? CDMA's pretty spiffy there, isn't it?

There's no question AT&T's late to the LTE party and, for a company their size, they shouldn't have been. For those with a short memory, VZW's LTE implementation was pretty much a cluster for the first couple of months/cities.

Once AT&T's done, their LTE will blow VZW's away for the following reasons:

- Single radio's mean much better battery life and far less bulk in their devices.

- When LTE's not available, the fallback is HSPA+ which is three times the speed of EVDO.

- GSM is the world standard - you can use your AT&T phone worldwide and with a PAYG SIM on another carrier if it's unlocked.

- You can buy cool unlocked and unbranded devices (Galaxy Prime) and use them on AT&T's network with cheap unlimited data plans.

I've been on VZW for years and as carrier's go, they're fine. But being CDMA sucks as they are literally god and good luck if you ever leave the U.S.

---------- Post added at 11:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:23 AM ----------

Correction. EVDO is a CDMA technology while LTE is a GSM technology. That's why all VZW LTE devices have a standard CDMA radio and a SIM-equipped LTE radio. They are actually running two parallel networks. Their long term goal is to retire CDMA and eventually be a GSM carrier using their LTE network to carry both voice and data.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] milan03:
Man there was absolutely no reason for you to go there, but since you called for it here you go...

Verizon LTE is working great, thanks for asking, there are almost 200million users covered with it. I have yet to find area where I wasn't covered with Verizon's LTE. I guess I don't travel to the rural areas...

To remind you a little since your memory clearly doesn't serve you that well, Verizon launched their LTE a year ago, and right away it was available in 39 markets and crapload of airports, nationwide. Way more than 5 cities. Verizon had to use 2 radios since the technology wasn't there, but Qualcomm just announced their MDM9615, 28nm radio coming out Q1 2012, that will handle LTE and everything backwards, so battery wise AT&T and Verizon will be on even turf in the next few months. If AT&T had deployed LTE last year like Verizon, radio/battery would've been a valid advantage. It's not anymore.

If you're traveling outside of the US, you can ask Verizon to unlock your LTE global phone.

And here are my Verizon LTE speeds, after a full year of commercial service:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jiwengang:
I owned the Skyrocket from ATT for a few day, guess what,

in Midtown Manhattan, my 20ish times of SPeedtest shows me ATT downspeed around 160 Kbps while TMOBILE has > 1mb

At my apartment in Queens, my another 20ish times of speedtest shows me ATT even can't connect to data server to pull data for 3 times, and the rest it is pulling 500 KBPS vs. TMOBILE > 1mb.

and it can't make a voice call without dropping.

So the only way is to send it back to ATT Store.

Frankly, I LOVE THE DEVICE, I HATE THE CARRIER.

I am very very surprised that ATT is still in business and call themselves a carrier.

Maybe folks here at the west coast having very stable ATT signals? apparently it is very bad in NYC.

To make me disgusted more, ATT is kind of using wrong signals to cover this weakness. when it reports one more bars than my TMOBILE, its data is 1/5 as fast as TMOBILE's.. so pathetic.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BarryH_GEG:
Since you don't own a SR and aren't even on AT&T, this will be my last response to you. As you've said, VZW LTE's been up for a year. In that time and as of today, every device has two seperate radios which adds bulk and sucks battery. During that year they've done an excellent job buliding out their LTE network which is truly the only plus for being on VZW right now. But, a year from now, AT&T will have LTE coverage similar to VZW's. Starting with the first devices launched, AT&T users get thinner devices, better battery life, HSPA+ as an LTE fallback, and can use there phones anywhere in the world without needing permission from the mother ship or a special SIM. The Qualcomm radio you're referring to does nothing but put two seperate and distinct radios on a single chip. That'll help with bulk but not battery life. So basically in a year's time AT&T will have the better network (even more so if they acquire T-Mobile) because GSM is global and HSPA+ is a far better fallback in secondory and tertiary markets than EVDO. And all their devices starting with device one will work just as well a year from now as they do today.

P.S. - If I was in NYC, I wouldn't be on AT&T. At least not until they get LTE fully deployed there. And for people who bought SR's in markets that don't yet have LTE, it'll be implemented shortly. AT&T's not stupid enough to go on a marketing crusade pushing LTE in markets that are months away from go-live.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] milan03:
Wait... did you just say that I don't own skyrocket?! I bought it on a launch day, read the posts.

And while you're into the reading mood, I suggest you read Anandtech article on 28nm all in one SoC+LTE radio that's gonna save about 40% battery due to the smaller die size: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4940/qualcomm-new-snapdragon-s4-msm8960-krait-architecture

You're welcome.