Should LTE be dubbed 4G?

Should LTE be called 4G?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 57.1%

  • No

    Votes: 21 42.9%
  • Total voters
    49
[personal view]

3G = <100Mb/s
4G= >100Mb/s
5G= >1Gb/s

[/personal view]
 
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Please can we have NO MORE articles about this stupid naming convention until someone actually makes a final decision?!? Who really cares where the lines are drawn for 3G, 4G, 5G besides the various marketing departments?? Seriously, if they make 42Mbps "4G" someone else will just call 100Mbps "4.5G", so what does it really matter?

Just make it faster and cheaper and everyone will be happy.
 
Who gives a crap? It's not up to them or us to say. It's up to the ITU.
 
Makes no difference. The coverage here is pathetic, I can only receive a GPRS signal.
I wish the debate about how to properly cover an area with no gaps was as healthy as this 4G debate.
 
Still useless if you can reach your cap in an hour. Uncapped/100GB+ caps only news that should be note worthy, after that new speeds can be discussed. Honestly with current data plans what is the use of 42Mb/s? No proper developed website needs more than 1Mb/s. Only video streaming has higher requirements and large downloads (Wireless automatically not applicable due to price).

The entire G terminology should be dropped. A proper metric for broadband connections is needed. This pure emphasis on speed is silly, packet loss and jitter are just as important. Currently HSPA+ in SA only has about 14MB/s goodput due to the instability. Even when putting my phone (Good reception) next to PC and try to access the same webpage my 1Mb/s finishes loading the page long before my phone.
 
Anything faster than 10mbs may just as well be called 4G for what I care.
 
4x4 MIMO for HS goes up to something like 600Mbps, which will be similar to LTE

Thus the ITU's idea of a "jump" will fit inline with LTE-advanced and minimum speed of 1Gbps

That said, the other "jump" for LTE is the SAE and eNodeB, SON etc, so in this aspect it could kinda cut it as a next gen network

Either way, HSPA+ is plain and simple NOT 4G, Cell C needs to get over it now.
 
MickeyD said:
I know, but what is the limit of the currently deployed equipment (non-LTE)? 43,2?

To me LTE is a whole new ball game and should be separated from the 3G technology.
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Then we're actually in agreement? LTE at 150Mb/s (what we've got today) is a true generation up. (HSPA at 21.6Mb/s not so much).

HSPA+ as deployed by Vodacom is 43.2Mb/s, we've got way more than 2000 towers up already. They're all 86.4 Mb/s ready as well, by the way and we should see modems within the next 12 months.

There is at least another step in the HSPA+ stream at 172.8Mb/s, which is then slap-bang in LTE territory.

Formally both LTE-150 and HSPA-172 are still 3G though.
 
jannievanzyl said:
Then we're actually in agreement? LTE at 150Mb/s (what we've got today) is a true generation up. (HSPA at 21.6Mb/s not so much).

HSPA+ as deployed by Vodacom is 43.2Mb/s, we've got way more than 2000 towers up already. They're all 86.4 Mb/s ready as well, by the way and we should see modems within the next 12 months.

There is at least another step in the HSPA+ stream at 172.8Mb/s, which is then slap-bang in LTE territory.

Formally both LTE-150 and HSPA-172 are still 3G though.
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We are in agreement, just differing in the cut-off points.

A compromise could be technology based, e.g. all HSPA remains 3G while all LTE and New Gen goes to 4G (regardless of speed).
 
Another silly debate to blind customers into thinking they will get 4G equivalent speeds when all the customers will get at the end of the day are the same 3G speeds (or HSPA+ if lucky) they are trashing as not being 4G.
 
vzta22 said:
Another silly debate to blind customers into thinking they will get 4G equivalent speeds when all the customers will get at the end of the day are the same 3G speeds (or HSPA+ if lucky) they are trashing as not being 4G.
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Who gives a shyte about the customer? We're not discussing customers here.
 
Methinks too much time is being wasted in what to call it.

Rather focus your energies on rolling it out and ironing out the kinks.

It's not like any of us are going to live to see 10G anyways.
 
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