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		blisterpeanuts on Nov 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Moto G: An Exceptional Phone At An Exc... I'm curious - isn't 3G the fallback speed when LTE is unavailable or when your phone doesn't have LTE support? Or is LTE a separate band that may exist without 3G at all in some regions? My wife's Nexus 4 (3G) seems to get internet just as often and approximately as fast as my Galaxy Nexus (LTE). Then again I don't stream videos that often over data networks, because it sucks to hit the limit and get choked back to 2G on T-Mo.

Zoomla on Nov 13, 2013 [–]

3G is a little better then dialup while 4G is more like WiFi-802.11G

bobbles on Nov 13, 2013 | [–]

I get 7.2MB/s on my 3G...

Zoomla on Nov 14, 2013 | | [–]

Looks like you are a lucky one, I was not getting much faster then that on 4G ( pcworld's test results for 4 companies: http://www.pcworld.com/article/253808/3g_and_4g_wireless_spe... )

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