| Choosing a wireless internet plan that meets your | | | | are able to do. What sorts of apps are being used |
| needs and is available in your area may not be | | | | on fourth generation devices then? All sorts of |
| quite as easy or quick as it seems. There are | | | | applications that can prove to increase people's |
| many different plans to choose from and | | | | productivity by a wide margin, including VoIP (the |
| sometimes given wireless services may not yet | | | | dream of mobile users that has finally come true, |
| be available for your location, which means going | | | | saving them lots of money), video conferencing |
| back to the drawing board. The need for mobile | | | | with multiple other parties, real-time data |
| communications solutions is at an all time high, and | | | | monitoring apps, and media-heavy apps for |
| people are very demanding in this regard, wanting | | | | entertainment purposes. |
| a robust wireless service that comes with very | | | | Speeds: 4G is also the king of speed when it |
| fast internet and many different, dynamic | | | | comes to mobile internet, and this is not likely to |
| applications as well on their mobile device. | | | | change anytime soon...not until 5G is released at |
| Increasingly, people across the United States and | | | | least, which is likely to be many years off still |
| in many different parts of the world are realizing | | | | (thanks in large part to the built in capacity for |
| that the best wireless service for them is | | | | improvement in fourth generation standards). The |
| undoubtedly 4G wireless, which offers the most | | | | average fourth generation mobile user is likely to |
| apps on mobile devices, the fastest mobile | | | | already be enjoying between 8 and 10 Mbps at |
| internet download and data transfer speeds, the | | | | the moment, which is simply unheard of in the |
| broadest coverage areas and the greatest | | | | realm of mobile services; yet this is only a teaser, |
| promise for improvement in the future...let's take | | | | as those speeds will be likely to double and |
| a look at each one of those criteria on an | | | | perhaps treble in the coming two or three years. |
| individual basis then: | | | | In fact, speeds in excess of 100 Mbps have been |
| Applications: Fourth generation wireless is the king | | | | proven possible by lab experiments-it's just a |
| of apps; of that there can be no doubts by now. | | | | matter of time till those speeds make it out onto |
| The simple reason is, as we will delve further into | | | | the streets! |
| below, that 4G networks have got the most | | | | Coverage: Thanks to smarter deployments, 4G |
| broadband of any and all mobile communications | | | | networks cover broader areas and that means |
| networks, making it possible for users to use | | | | users get to stay connected more often as they |
| very heavy apps on their mobile devices. Not only | | | | travel around town. In each city where fourth |
| can they use such bandwidth-intense applications, | | | | generation networks have been deployed, the |
| they can use multiple applications on their fourth | | | | entire metropolitan area is cloaked with wireless |
| generation compatible device at the same time, | | | | capability. |
| which is something that normally only computers | | | | |