by MMI » Apr 17, 2001 @ 10:54am
Sorry to spoil the fun, but that bandwith number is very misleading. Keep in mind that:<br><br>1) It is per cell tower, not per phone. So, it will be faster than now, but as with cable modems (or even worse) you're sharing the bandwidth with many, many other people.<br><br>2) Digital call quality is limited today by the above shared bandwidth constraint. The first thing cell phone companies are going to do with the extra bandwith is increase the per-call allocation for voice (i.e. give you a better sounding connection). Remember, they have 100 or 1000 times as many voice customers as data customers right now. Dollars is dollars.<br>