June 23rd, 2008 by
Filed under: Cellphones
With LTE a few years out yet, Alltel needs something to get it over the 3.5G hump — and seeing how it’s presently a CDMA carrier, you can pretty much guess where this is going. Sure enough, Verizon’s newest partner in crime has announced that the rollout of its EV-DO Rev. A upgrade is now underway, promising a bump in downlink speeds from 400-700kbps on the existing Rev. 0 network to somewhere between 600kbps and 1.4Mbps. Uplink speeds are where Rev. A really shines, though, blazing as much as ten times faster than it did before — 800kbps on a good day with bursts of up to 1.8Mbps. Two data cards are being offered to take advantage of the service — one from Huawei and one from UTStarcom — while compatible handsets currently include the HTC PPC6800 and Touch. The rollout is targeted for “select markets” right now — Charlotte, New Orleans, Phoenix and Tampa among a total of 18 — with overall EV-DO coverage continuing to expand as well; Alltel’s targeting 82 percent of its footprint to be upgraded by year’s end.
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June 23rd, 2008 by
Filed under: Cellphones
With LTE a few years out yet, Alltel needs something to get it over the 3.5G hump — and seeing how it’s presently a CDMA carrier, you can pretty much guess where this is going. Sure enough, Verizon’s newest partner in crime has announced that the rollout of its EV-DO Rev. A upgrade is now underway, promising a bump in downlink speeds from 400-700kbps on the existing Rev. 0 network to somewhere between 600kbps and 1.4Mbps. Uplink speeds are where Rev. A really shines, though, blazing as much as ten times faster than it did before — 800kbps on a good day with bursts of up to 1.8Mbps. Two data cards are being offered to take advantage of the service — one from Huawei and one from UTStarcom — while compatible handsets currently include the HTC PPC6800 and Touch. The rollout is targeted for “select markets” right now — Charlotte, New Orleans, Phoenix and Tampa among a total of 18 — with overall EV-DO coverage continuing to expand as well; Alltel’s targeting 82 percent of its footprint to be upgraded by year’s end.
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