Mobile Network Types as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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1,097 words · ~5 min read
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you know i think we'll start by defining what the heck a g is
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yes i suppose it is that but it also refers to the generation of cell phone
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network technology used by your provider's towers and the radio in your
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mobile device so how many g's you have affects the features speed availability
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and reliability of your mobile network
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so 1g or first generation was analog
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it didn't even support roaming didn't encode voice calls digitally and had no
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support for mobile internet which i guess makes sense since that was pretty
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much sci-fi when 1g was rolled out starting in the early 80s at any rate
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good riddance to it it's successor 2g
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rocketed us into the digital fast lane allowing voice calls to be transmitted
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more efficiently via compression which you can learn more about here by the way
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and cell phones to become smaller thanks to the reduced radio power requirements
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awesome what we also got with 2g was confusion roaming to different
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territories was much improved but only if the mobile network you were roaming
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on used the same type of second generation network the main two of which
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being cdma and gsm and while initial
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true 2g offerings were too slow for a mobile internet experience beyond
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text-based emails interim standards like gprs and edge
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colloquially referred to as like two and a half g or 2.75 g could deliver data
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rates as high as well much higher than the minimum 200 kilobit
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per second transfer speed required to call something 3g which is why the line
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is so blurry because carriers had to try and balance backwards compatibility and
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future proofness with performance and coverage today not an easy thing to do
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when you're trying to save all that money and third generation or 3g
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networks didn't simplify matters at all with technologies like edge being
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technically allowed to be marketed as 3g thanks to fulfilling the speed
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requirements even though almost no one did that since it's an upgrade dead end
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and not at all competitive with standards like wcdma whose later
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upgrades like hspa and hspa plus could achieve pretty kick-ass mobile broadband
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speeds in excess of a hundred megabit per second
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okay so deep breath did 4g fourth generation make things
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simpler the answer is yes and no the
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term 4g is used pretty fast and loose by cell phone providers for one thing who
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are trying to convince you that they have the fastest stuff but it also has a
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few different real meetings so some companies use 4g to refer to a standard
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called hspa plus which if you remember from like 20 seconds ago is actually
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technically turbocharged 3g which is why many carriers now are differentiating
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their long-term evolution or lte networks by specifically calling them
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out as 4g lte lte offers enhanced voice quality with
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hd voice which you can learn more about here and dramatically better downstream
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data rates for watching youtube videos and streaming from music services like
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spotify we're talking up to 300 megabit per second and on top of that you can
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see dramatically better upstream performance too which is critical for
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video calls and even mobile gaming in some cases but then is 4g lte the end of
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the huge alphabet soup of different wireless names the answer is no i mean
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there's a newer version of lte called lte advanced that is being marketed as
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true 4g since lte wasn't technically 4g
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then they kind of changed the rules so they could call it that for marketing purposes
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so that's on the horizon offering even greater reliability due to its use of
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several different lte frequency bands at once which is very important when you're
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traveling around or in a densely populated city also there's one company
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in south korea that has already rolled out what it calls giga lte which is
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today capable of speeds of over one gigabit per second on compatible phones
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from samsung and lg absolutely incredible as long as there's
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a nearby tower so speaking of nearby towers will this kind of performance
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ever be available in the technologically backward west
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