re: When is a 4G LTE Market Really Covered, Anyway?You make a good point; today's 4G LTE rollouts are focused mainly on coverage, but what happens when enough people have LTE-enabled devices flooding these networks simultaneously? Insufficient capacity. Small cells will be key to any carrier's strategy to increase both network coverage AND capacity.
re: When is a 4G LTE Market Really Covered, Anyway?Oh totally. Another problem with Sprint is that they're not transparent. Hardly hear their CTO talking good stuff.
re: When is a 4G LTE Market Really Covered, Anyway?They do actually seem to go back and fill in gaps after though. Sprint's whole LTE strategy looks a bit hinky now. Witness the T-Mobile folk laughing about them being in Manhattan, Kansas, not Manhattan, NYC last week.
re: When is a 4G LTE Market Really Covered, Anyway?From a customer's point of view its important to know how a carrier will service their usage patterns, so comparison coverage maps from the likes of RootMetrrics or OpenSignal can be extremely valuable in that regard.
re: When is a 4G LTE Market Really Covered, Anyway?hah. We have to pick our battles. I'd rather we all agree on what 4G (and 5G and LTE-Advanced) actually is, rather than fight where it is...
re: When is a 4G LTE Market Really Covered, Anyway?Not even sure the old FCC CMAs are fully followed now, so good luck with standardizing on coverage. I'd start a crusade but I don't feel like tilting at windmills right now :-)
re: When is a 4G LTE Market Really Covered, Anyway?That's a good question. It's hard when every carrier reports it different -- markets versus cities versus PoPs versus people covered. We need to standardize the reporting!
