Sprint Eats Verizon For Lunch and Turds Out T-Mobile

so, if the iphone is EDGE, does that mean it's not going to be a serious player in the mobile data services department?

richard recently bought verizon EVDO pcmcia cards for us, but he's exchanging them for sprint. faster is better.

And here I am stuck with Cingular's Edge. Edged out.

This test was done using the following equipment:

Sprint - U720
Verizon - V640
T-Mobile - Blackberry 8100 (Pearl)

The download speed is not much different between the Spint Rev A vs the Verizon Rev 0, but the difference was huge in uploads. Check this graph out:

http://www.swivel.com/graph...

Graphing 101: Numbers must have units.

Units are kbps, kilobits per second.

Generally, you'll get better throughput through a card than attaching a phone via USB or even worse, Bluetooth.

Sometimes the modem driver also makes a difference. eg. the author of this driver for the Mac at http://www.fibble.org/archi... saw speeds jump from 130kbps to 208kbps by modifying the connect script.

But anyway, the future is HSUPA for high speed comms, not EVDO.

well virizon is alot beter

usb720 from sprint is rev A while the v640 is rev 0. Its in fact amazing that verizon performs so well!!!

Actually the future of high speed communications is WiMax not HSUPA or HSDPA -- and look for Sprint to begin their WiMax release later in 2007.

wimax....sprint is banking way too much on this

Verizon high speed is available in my area but Sprint's service is not, so for me, Verizon wins hands-down in this area. Verizon has had high-speed internet for cell service in my area for several years while as far as I can tell Sprint has no plans to roll out their service in my major metro area.

Re the comments how the Verizon is Rev 0 and Sprint is Rev A, so Verizon is good to be close: The difference between Rev A and Rev 0 period (regardless of carrier) is not in the download speed, but instead is in the upload speed. On each network, download speed only improves (in optimum conditions) by about 10% between Rev 0 and Rev A. However, in upload speed, it improves 3-5 times. So, even if this chart compared Sprint Rev 0 to Sprint Rev A, you would see similar differences.

"Badass": As in Dukes of Hazard, David Hasselhoff, and David Spade...all of whom are downloadable and shareable. Okay, I can see the "turd" analogy.

Its amazing how much Verizon is beating out T-Mobile. The Cell phone wars will never stop.

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