4g Lte facts
While investigating facts about 4g Lte, I found out little known, but curios details like:
4G LTE isn't actually 4G. It stands for 'Long Term Evolution', and was invented so that companies can market their networks as 4G without meeting its specifications. Actual 4G speeds are 100 Mb/s for moving devices (in a train/car) and 1 Gb/s for stationary devices.
Mount Everest has 4G LTE internet coverage and cellular service.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about 4g Lte I managed to collect.
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The company Loon provides internet access to remote areas by placing high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere to create an aerial wireless network with up to 4G-LTE speeds.
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About Loon, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. that aims to provide internet access to rural areas via the use of high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of 20km to create an aerial wireless network capable of 4G-LTE speeds. It has been granted regulatory approvals in Kenya.
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LTE does not satisfy the original technical requirements for the LTE standard. Due to marketing pressures and the significant advancements that other technologies brought to the original 3G standard, it was decided that LTE together with these technologies could be called 4G.
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Due to an arrangement with the FCC over a wireless spectrum meant for education, Sprint must offer unlimited 4G LTE internet to all non-profits that request it at a very low price... and these non-profits can then give it out as a gift for donations.
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Verizon Wireless, the service provider that covers many suburban and unpopulated towns with perfect 4G LTE speeds, has issues with providing well-known tourist attractions with coverage.
