Originally Posted by beans0ntoast:
“Great video as always, and I agree with others in that technology is never easy to understand!
Why didn't 4G launch with voice... that would have made things easier! Otherwise, you have this weird situation.
4G1800 can't be whacked up to the same power as 2G1800 because 2G1800 just can't cope with all of the calls - added to the fact that the voice quality is poor as well!
Thus, 3G has to do the calls.. but 3G has cell breathing.
So you have to keep 4G within the minimum 3G coverage area...
result: 4G has the least coverage out of all the technology...
If 4G had native voice from launch, then 2G could go (leaving 3G to do calls for legacy devices, 4G to do 4G calls, and people with 2G only phones buying new phones) - and in the medium long term, 3G could go as well - meaning that all calls would be done on 4G.
But for now, we have this weird system...
Lets hope 5G launches with native voice, so that in time, everything else (possibly even 4G too) can be switched off in favor of something that does native voice as well as a very fast data rate.”
Well there's the understatement of the year!! lol
Yes it would have made the 4G rollout very easy indeed (this is assuming new 4G handsets at the time came with VoLTE of course which they may not have done so there's another spanner in the works).
You're
still wrong on the 2G/3G thing though.
It would still be 3G going first.
A: all that 2100 could be used for 4G getting 4 times the capacity.
B: all non 4G phones can do 2G, not all can do 3G.
C: all the GSM M2M devices that are eventually being moved to 4G
I fail to see your obsession with 3G. It's a terrible technology.l
If I was a network planner/designer/builder, I would want rid of it asap.