I actually agree with you. I use AT&T, but I don't have a 3G phone. I am still using an old Nokia bar phone from a few years back because I just need a phone for talking. Tho, I do need a new phone because this one's not holding a charge like it used to. I am thinking about buying a Nokia 2610 since they like what, 30 bucks, at Target and just popping my SIM into that one, mainly because it has good battery (so I've read.).

People said the same thing about cell phones, text messaging...and then mobile internet....

This whole natural progression of newer technology always has resistence. Primarily from older generations.

at&t's primary objective is to be profitable for its shareholders. So they have to remain competitive to do so. If they don't upgrade their network to 4g and all other carriers do, they will be left in the dust. Why do you think every carrier has network claims at the forefront of their advertisements?

If you look at the cost of data your view is debunked. As speeds and capacity have been getting better the end user cost has actually fallen. The better and faster the services get with 4g the more users will be signing up for data servic...
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Well stated. I am one on those that came from big red along time ago. One reason was the fact the CS would have a different story every time you called. No one knew there company's policy. This resulted in me pinning down CS reps at the store and learning their polices. I had the same issues you did with my bill as well. Just to let you know, EV technology is data only. 1X is voice. Verizon feels there voice side (1X) is far superior and just updated their data. That why the phones that have that unified OS have two different signal readings I think EV (data) was on the top and 1X (voice) was at the bottom. This is why I will not return to Verizon. A customer should be able to pick the phone they want with the features that the manufacturer ...
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"Do we really need data that fast?" No.
Do we want it? Ummmm...hell yes!

I have to agree with everything you say except for wireless not being reliable enough to replace the home phone. That's crap. If your home phone goes down, you're out of luck. If a tower goes down in an urban or suburban area, there are other towers that can pick up the slack. There are also battery backups on most towers these days for power outages.

As far as carriers go, your individual results may vary. I use Sprint and Metro PCS and am happy on both. In fact, if the Metro PCS worked in my wife's place of employment I would combine the work and home cells into just Metro. Many people blast both carriers.

Twitter/Myspace type users use signifigantly more bandwidth than a guy getting his work email on his blackberry.

Those applications are also the ones that would benefit MORE from faster speeds. And those facebook/myspace/twitter people also typically use youtube a lot more (or slingbox) than business users. Data has the caps it does currently because of multimedia users, not because of business users.

LTE is hardly the peak of data, it's just the next step. And while it will be expensive to roll out LTE, in the end it will be much cheaper.

1. LTE uses the 700mhz band meaning it can travel further and has MUCH better building penetration (meaning fewer towers, especially in rural areas without a lot of heavy users)

2. Data wi...
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I skimmed your post, not into a wall this early.

Anyway, I currently play $30/month for Edge on my Blackberry.

I would pay $50/month for LTE today in my area.

And I could convince my customer of it too 😲

And it probably won't really be til 2013 that we'll have an idea as to the effect that 4G will have on society, and the consumer market. In order for companies to get they're money back it can't be out of the reach of the masses, and since high quality video will finally be do-able on wireless networks hopefully the carriers will have enough sense to increase !!data limits!!

But think about this, most technology you don't know how usefull or unusefull it will be until it gets close to market saturation.

We can't even begin to imagine the capabilities these 4G devices will have until the end of next year, like powerful rich 3D graphics, 1080p HD video recording, and who knows what else.

Plus the effect on the market now that wireles...
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