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Verizon has made its new AWS-backed XLTE network official, so I can imagine that…

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  • ok dumb question time. Anyone confirm use of XLTE / band 4 and has unlimited data still? I’m waiting for the “gotcha”

    • There is no change to your account when they activate these new frequencies. The only thing that changes if you have a phone capable of using Band 4 is you gain access to a 20 MHz pipe instead of 10, hence the faster speed.

      There is no “gotcha”.

  • Oooh yeah, witness the power of XLTE on my GNote3 and cower in fear at its…oh wait, jk…

  • <—– lives in williamsburg, brooklyn with a note 3. anyone know if i'm up and how to verify? thanks in advance and sorry if it's been addressed already in some fashion.

  • I find it funny that wireless speeds are eclipsing wired speeds offered by ISPs.

  • Believe it or not, this is an improvement (and yes, the LTE icon is active): ping 107ms, download: 1.19Mbps, upload: 0.25Mbps …

    That’s at my office during a work day. In the evenings and weekends it bounces back to more respectable levels at the same location – but during the day, total crap. I think there’s just too many users trying to access not enough towers during the day.

    On the upside, this is better than what I was seeing a couple months ago when I last tested it.

    • The area you’re in may have some signal pollution along with some capacity issues. If you’re signal level looks good but the signal quality if poor, you can see those kinds of results.

      Sitting at my desk in our office, my phone shows around a -90 RSRP. But my RSRQ is terrible because I’m seeing 6-8 sites, which limits my speeds to around 3-5Mbps.

      Same location using a device on AWS gets me around 80Mbps 🙂

    • Not really. AWS is being overlaid with the 700MHz LTE spectrum. This will help with speed and capacity.

      VoLTE is more dependent on 1-to-1 coverage parity with the legacy 1x network.

      • That’s too bad, because VoLTE is what I’m really looking towards – get rid of the proprietary CDMA radios and open everything up. Not to mention less radios to provide power to and switch between.

        • I agree, the power savings will be pretty significant. But there won’t be any VoLTE-only devices for some time. I would say it will be a couple years.

          Trust me, VZW wants to light up VoLTE as much as anyone. The CDMA licensing is a large chunck of money. But VoLTE isn’t launching until the coverage and the core network can provide the same reliability as the legacy network. It’s getting close, but there are still issues being worked.

      • I see your trolling tactics are in full effect. I’m so proud that you took my advice!

    • What?? Atlanta has had Band 4 AWS for months now. Been using it on my Note 3 in various places, one being McDonough,Georgia which is about 25-30 minutes south of Atlanta. Have a Note 3. Use this number in the dialer for Note 3 phones to see which band you are on. *#0011#
      Even before the OTA updates for the Note 3 on Verizon that automatically turned on Band 4, I was able to manually change my settings to allow it.

  • I don’t get it, was anything announced that is new that we didn’t already know about / haven’t been using already for the last 6 months? As far as I can tell this whole thing was just them giving it a new name “XLTE” instead of “AWS Band 4” we’ve all been calling it.

  • Is anyone aware of any app (non-root) that can check what band your device is connected to?

  • The real advantage to the AWS spectrum is the deployment of 20MHz channels. This is where the bulk of the speed is coming from. In areas that don’t have 20MHz contiguous they’ll use carrier aggregation to get the bandwidth. This of course is dependent on the cell hardware vendor supporting it. Most do, through upgraded software.

  • Still nothing in South Bend, IN area….54ms ping, 21.15 mbps down, 3.42 up

  • Wow, getting 50MB on my M8, but people in my same office on a Windows phone and Moto X are only getting 20Mb. What gives?

  • Bakersfield, Modesto, San Luis Obispo….WTF! Half the cities listed in California are empty. Meanwhile i’m pulling up to 5.0mbps in the Inland Empire. Great work Verizon./s

  • Doubled my speed here in Columbus, OH. Went from mid 20s down to mid 40s down. Upload was about the same around 13.

  • On the outskirts of Portland Oregon here…no improvement…fairly certain its because I’m in a rural area though, but at least I get 4g here.

  • 2x bandwidth… So are they bringing back unlimited data? One can only wish.

  • Here are my results for the Detroit area. Ping = 56ms, Down = 63.54Mbps, Up = 35.35Mbps
    Not bad.

      • how will I know if I am connected to XLTE? Does it display differently in my notification bar? Or will I have to look in About Phone > Status > Mobile Network Type?

        • You won’t know because its just LTE using different bands. The only way you will know is if Verizon was to install software on your phone to tell you your using that LTE band which they probably won’t do because then they’ll get calls of people asking what’s xlte or why don’t I have xlte when you said I would.

  • In the back of mind I’m still on Verizon…..so my interest is always piqued when I see verizon news…….Then I’m back to reality on my much cheaper GoPhone plan.

    • I was wondering the same; will we see “xlte” instead of 4glte by our signal bars or something?

      • Not unless Verizon pushes out an update to add a way for you to know because xlte is just LTE…

        • The app LTE discovery will detect which network your phone is currently on. Unfortunately in Albuquerque i’m still on band 13. Time to play the waiting game

          • I dont think that app is correct because I’m on LTE band 4 but it claims I’m on 10 which is just a subset of 4. Also when on HSPA+ it still claims I’m on 10 even though my carrier only uses bands 5 and 2. It appears that the number in the brackets refers to the number of groupings of information under the network info header.

  • Fastest I’ve seen in downtown Indy.

    edit: this could be perfectly normal. I don’t usually test the connection unless I’m at home which is far outside of town. I only get around 9mb dl there.

  • Non xlte city in upstate NY …30 Mbps down 10 up ….what speeds do everyone else see on vzw? Or any network

  • I’ve been enjoying around 70 Mbps down since then flipped the switch on the AWS spectrum in my area. I know that both the Note 3 (and presumably the S5) and the iPhone 5s can take advantage of AWS. That coupled with my unlimited data is pretty sweet indeed.

    • It might some just because some people will be using the XLTE and lessen the load for those that can’t.

    • A VZW tech told me that the Galaxy S3 doesn’t have the antenna to use XLTE so I would say no.

      • The antenna is just used to transmit/receive, he meant it doesn’t have the radio to support that radio band. Technicalities 😉

    • Technically in a round-about way. Since phones with AWS support will be able to utilize AWS, non AWS phones will then see a network with a lighter load.

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