This Time Red Means Great!

[Cloggie]

Maybe one day Thailand is red as well, I hope I will be still alive so I can use it as well.

[lomatopo]

How much would you be willing to pay for LTE? 1,500 baht/month for 5 GB? What applications do you use which require these high mobile broadband speeds?

The 'real' maps are quite a bit different of course....

http://network4g.verizonwireless.com/pdf/VZW_4G_LTE_Coverage_Map.pdf Note that red is 3G and the teeny, weeny green spots are LTE.

And...

Quote: On AT&T's website, if you hit "Coverage" and then hover over the cities where HSPA+ is fully functional, it allows you to click for more detailed local 4G coverage. The areas include Bay Area, Calif.; Los Angeles; NorCal, Calif.; Houston; Dallas; Chicago; Baltimore; Buffalo; Boston; Providence, R.I.; Charlotte, N.C.; and Puerto Rico.

The only problem with the new coverage maps is that AT&T's claims to "4G", like T-Mobile's (which has also deployed HSPA+), deserve quotations or, at the very least, an asterisk. For much of the past year, AT&T repudiated T-Mobile's labeling of HSPA+ as "4G", with an AT&T rep stating, "I think that companies need to be careful that they're not misleading customers by labeling HSPA+ as a 4G technology. We aren't labeling those technologies as 4G."

Then, earlier this year, AT&T changed course -- likely realizing that Verizon's burgeoning LTE network could spell bad news for a company that was still advertising 3G -- and branded its HSPA+ network as "4G".

Turns out, none of the wireless carriers can truly brag about 4G, despite the boldest claims of their marketers.

[wpcoe]

Apparently, I missed the news flash where Alaska was no longer part of the USA? The lower 48 states are red, but Alaska is grey...