Comments on: Thunderdome Showdown: HSDPA Vs. EV-DO

By: Maxwell

Maxwell — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:47:16 +0000

So, a year has passed!! What’s the scoop today (June 6, 2008)? I’m here in East Africa and Safaricom and Celtel are dueling over their mobile Internet access offerings. I hear 3G (or 3.5G?!?!?) is now in Nairobi via Safaricom. But both providers do provide HSDPA modems with data rates going around 10 to 12 Kenya Shillings per MEGABYTE. That works out to be about 16 to 20 cents per MB. Not bad at all for Africa.
In Tanzania, Zantel is kicking ass with its fast EV-DO service, which should now be countrywide.
Things are a little cheaper and competitive in TZ when it comes to broadband and mobile charges…don’t really know why.
Oh, you can peek my blog post about Zantel’s EV-DO service here:
http://goafricago.blogspot.com/2007/03/zantel-ups-stakes-with-new-mobile-data.html

Peacies.

Max (aka MaxTheITpro)

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:09:59 +0000

Your year is up sir.

WiMax is here.

By: Joke?

Joke? — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:08:04 +0000

Was this a joke?

If not, it is now!

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:16:00 +0000

although I agree in part with the above poster that Cingular currently is on 3.6 in some areas and 1.8 in most, I take issue with the website they posted as it is a Sprint reseller and obviously biased and sometime incorrect

By: alpha

alpha — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:54:34 +0000

This is ridiculous. It seems that you claimed way more stuff than you actually proved. Show us the actual, real-world numbers, especially for Cingular’s HSDPA.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:39:36 +0000

Just need to pipe in with some more corrections to the article. Firstly, Cingular’s current top speed is 3.6Mbps…the 7.2 is the next generation down the road. Heck, they don’t even have that much 3.6 coverage. For more usable information comparing all the carriers Broadband efforts, go here: http://moremobileinternet.com/sprint-vs-verizon

By: LeDiva

LeDiva — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:30:53 +0000

“At about that time, WiMAX will squirt its beautiful head from Sprint’s placenta.”

Couldn’t use some of that high-speed portable bandwidth to look up basic physiology, eh?

By: Jojo

Jojo — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:44:46 +0000

Look at HSDPA compared to Sprint and Verizon today. Sprint is kicking everyone’s ass.

http://www.dslreports.com/archive/spcsdns.net
http://www.dslreports.com/archive/myvzw.com
http://www.dslreports.com/archive/mycingular.net

By: xel

xel — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:51:20 +0000

this is so lame. you put up a report calling this a shootout to see who has the better speeds during your trip, and then don’t post any 3rd party speed test results to back up any claims?

wtf?

lastly, please get some grammar lessons.

in fact, i hear they have software for that now.

By: Odie

Odie — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:55:09 +0000

“During my travels, I unable to able to reach max bandwidth on Sprint of HSDPA.”

Yeah, Sprint’s HSDPA bandwidth is not very good ;).

By: Little Red Ryan Hood

Little Red Ryan Hood — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:20:02 +0000

I used a Verizon EV-DO card and had a similar issue to yours of the cingular card switching to EDGE. While the 1X network Verizon has to backup their EVDO isn’t as slow as cingular’s edge network it is pretty lame. Also I’ve found that Verizon charges huge fees for going off EVDO and running on 1X.