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echo: osdebate
to: Glenn Meadows
from: Randy
date: 2007-01-11 18:56:34
subject: Re: IPhone is real!!!

From: Randy 

Glenn Meadows wrote:
> Yea, on the portable gateway.  My boss has a BB on Verizon, and uses it that
> way in taxi's and hotel rooms, rather than use the WiFi in the hotel.  Says
> it's actually faster than using the WiFi.  Plus, in cabs, he can be
> reading/replying via Outlook on his laptop when stuck in traffic when he's
> in NYC.
>
> T-Mobile has their Edge service, not sure how that compares to the Verizon
> speed.  Isn't Edge what Sprint and Nextel use as well?
>
CDMA (Sprint/Verizon) EV-DO is Fast (~300-1500 kbps)-much faster than GSM's
EDGE {at} 150 kbps (Cingular/T-Mobile); but Cingular's now rolling out their
3G service, with speeds comparable to EV-DO.


Cinguar's rolling out UTMS, which is supposed to be

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