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Speaker 1: Welcome to brainstoff from how Stuff Works dot com where

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Speaker 1: smart Happens him Marshall Brain with today's question what types

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Speaker 1: of four G phone service are available in the United

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Speaker 1: States today? If you have a smart phone, you may

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Speaker 1: be interested in four G service for the data that

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Speaker 1: comes into your phone. Four G stands for fourth generation

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Speaker 1: and there are currently three systems in the United States

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Speaker 1: that are advertising for G service. Sprint claimed the title

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Speaker 1: of the first four G network in the United States

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Speaker 1: when it deployed its HTC EVO four G phone on

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Speaker 1: its y max network earlier in two thousand ten. Sprint

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Speaker 1: has y Max in about thirty cities in the United

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Speaker 1: States at the moment. With y Max, you received data

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Speaker 1: at a rate of between three and six megabits per

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Speaker 1: second when ATA is coming into your phone. The second

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Speaker 1: network into the marketplace is t Mobiles hsp A plus network.

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Speaker 1: Prior to this, hsp A plus has not been officially

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Speaker 1: considered to be four G, so this is a rebranding

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Speaker 1: to some extent, but the rebranding may be warranted because

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Speaker 1: t mobiles hsp A plus network is slightly faster than

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Speaker 1: sprints Ymax network in many cases, but it's only slightly faster,

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Speaker 1: it's still operating in the same kind of three to

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Speaker 1: six megabits per second range as the y MAX network is.

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Speaker 1: On the plus side, hs P A Plus is offered

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Speaker 1: in about twice as many cities as y MAX is

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Speaker 1: offered in. And then there's Verizon, which is deploying its

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Speaker 1: LTE network. This should be a big deal because LTE

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Speaker 1: has the potential to be ten times faster than either

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Speaker 1: ymax or hsp A Plus, and it could be available

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Speaker 1: in a lot more cities. Now here's the funny thing.

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Speaker 1: Up until recently, four G meant a hundred megabits per

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Speaker 1: set can or more. Verizon might brush up against that

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Speaker 1: if LTE pans out the way they say it well,

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Speaker 1: but even so, it will not be there all the time.

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Speaker 1: So in the United States we aren't actually getting what

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Speaker 1: used to be called for G. We're just getting something

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Speaker 1: better than three G. It might be years before we

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Speaker 1: see a hundred megabits per second on our phones, or

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Speaker 1: even in our homes for that matter, here in the

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Speaker 1: United States. In other parts of the world, it's a

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