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What are those? According to Wikipedia most countries have 60% 4G penetration. Not sure what it means and how accurate it is though.


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Which is? Most of these countries have really strong 4g already...

That doesn't answer either question -- first you need to define what they're calling "4G" in those countries. Is it HSPA+? WiMax? LTE?

In at least some European countries 4G is everywhere.

4g is fairly fast and generally capped. That is hardly rare.

4G is more than enough for what I need (I'm going to assume now that anywhere at all populated in these countries already have decent 4G or will have within the foreseeable future). This is the case already in e.g. Northern rural Sweden. It's far far less densely populated than anywhere in Italy.

LTE equals 4G.

*4G

Second this!

4G basically means 'expect nothing' for me.


Only one or two countries here even have 4G towers.

Here in the US, 4g has a very low datacap limit. Less than 50G/mo I'd say

I think 4G doesn't tell the whole story, especially in several businesses that target users in specific conditions (e.g. tourism, where your users have poor unstable 4g) or specific markets withpoor avera8ge mobile connections.

I'm quite happy that this article clears up the real meaning of 4G.

Yes, atleast 3G is everywhere, 4G is I think most of the places.

What's the bandwidth on 4G? Not a telecomms engineer, but data service can be very pricey, so I assumed it was kind of a limited resource.

India is mostly 2g and 3g, though there's a major new 4g network being rolled out now. That said, recent studies show that 4g networks greatly reduce in speed as they near capacity; many US cities have seen 4g speeds cut in half as more people have come into them.

Yeah that's 4G in NL and in the rest of the EU

The system 4G is the fourth generation network mobile phone. This technology enables connections to the internet via mobile devices, with speeds up to ten times longer than the current 3G networks...

Having traveled widely in three of the four most populous countries I’m a bit dubious of this claim. Having decent 4G in the middle of nowhere in India or Indonesia is pretty standard these days. I haven’t been to Africa, but a quick search suggests more than two thirds of the population of the continent has 4G coverage, and more than 80% has 3G. Where are these huge numbers of people on 2G?

It's 4G.
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