Verizon, has been installing LTE equipment in U.S. Apple retail stores ahead of the iPad 3 launch, cult of mac reports.
Apple faces LTE issues for reasons related to the vast array of frequencies used around the world to support existing Long Term Evolution fourth generation mobile networks.
As Apple resisted developing a CDMA version of the iPad for quite some time, preferring to build only models supporting the global GSM frequencies and networks, so it now will have to contend with an arguably more varied global landscape for LTE spectrum.
Just in the United States, Apple would have to create different models for AT&T and Verizon Wireless, for example.
There's a third international model which does double duty on 3G and CDMA/GSM model .
Manufacturing cost is the real implication. But there isn't much any firm can do, long term. Networks using Long Term Evolution are the future, globally.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
iPad 3...Only Issue is U.S. LTE Support
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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