| If you're not the sort of person who likes to get | | | | 3. The mastery of video. Video applications have |
| inside technology, choosing instead to focus on | | | | dogged 3G users for years, but to expect far |
| the results, you've probably been having a hard | | | | better service than what has been available is a |
| time getting the straight scoop on 4G internet. | | | | little presumptuous. After all, it isn't as if the 3G |
| Stories about signal towers and wireless protocols | | | | networks were ever designed to handle such |
| are nice, but it's likely you'd prefer a list of | | | | internet-specific tasks. How can a user expect the |
| differences from previous internet services on | | | | protocol to supersede its built-in limitations? It |
| the road. Has the video crunch been solved? Are | | | | would be like asking a VCR to play DVD's, or a |
| holes still dotting the map in different cities? These | | | | CD player to handle and play your old LP records. |
| questions and more can be answered with the | | | | 4. The simplicity of the system. If you are a |
| simple breakdown of 4G coverage. | | | | habitual user of laptops on the road and have |
| 1. The movement ahead in speed. Jumping ahead | | | | come to depend on your wireless internet |
| in speed has got to be on the menu if you are | | | | connection for work, you may hesitate about |
| going to be impressed by a wireless provider in | | | | joining the 4G network. What will become of your |
| your city. Thankfully, the 4G model is predicated | | | | old reliable laptop and/or the system you already |
| on a major increase in speed when compared to | | | | have in place? Naturally, moving on without a |
| 3G service. Users can expect an increase of 3-4 | | | | major upgrade is worthless, while moving on to |
| times the speed once considered the best in | | | | slightly better coverage but being forced to hand |
| wireless coverage. Speed bursts are going 6-7 | | | | in your old laptop is almost equally unappealing. |
| times the best 3G service in town as well. | | | | The system is simple in that you do not have to |
| 2. The expansion of the coverage zone. Getting | | | | change computers unless you want to, nor get |
| the coverage zone to something resembling the | | | | used to a bunch of new equipment. |
| entire metro area was one of the big goals of | | | | 5. The big step up in service. You may feel locked |
| 4th generation network providers. For example, | | | | into the old style of doing business with internet |
| they couldn't come out with a service for a city | | | | providers, and no one could blame you for |
| the size of Philadelphia unless the coverage area | | | | expecting little. The new system, however, |
| went to the edges of the city and beyond. | | | | involves an easy setup procedure that is |
| Because the system is based on signal towers, | | | | 'technician-free' and you can expect to get rolling |
| they have found themselves going well beyond | | | | within twenty-four hours. Anything else left on the |
| the city limits and even into neighboring states, as | | | | wish list will probably be curbed when you get |
| in the case of Philly to South Jersey. | | | | these five advantages. |