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Originally Posted by Seraph
I have both data plans from Verizon and Cingular. Verizon's EVDO network is a hell of a lot faster. I use it on my laptop. The cingular's GPRS connection is a lot slower but is a good backup.
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I can't imagine Nextel even coming close to Verizon's speed, since the last system that I heard they were going to implement was WiDEN, which would get only something like 132kbps max, 90-100kbps average. That's even slower than Verizon's older system (CDMA 1x RTT), which gets 153 kbps burst and 128 kbps average, and which you can get with minutes-only charges if you know what you're doing. I used to use that to stream 128kbps MP3s to my PDA back in the day. Also, I think I got the numbers for Cingular/AT&T messed up in my previous post.. 384kbps for WCDMA (select markets only, IIRC), 56-80 kbps for GPRS (depends on # of channels available), and 100-something kbps for EDGE.
Most important thing with wireless data, though, is reception.