Lawyer Emma Curtis is looking to purchase a smartphone along with mobile broadband service in order to get through her every day business while away from her office in Chicago, IL. She needs the right data plan to suite her needs: she downloads a lot of data every day and desires the fastest, most reliable, most cost-effective connectoin in her area (Chicago.)
Emma desires a smartphone and will need anywhere from 2 to 6GB of data per month, depending on what “a lot” means to her. She will also need 4G LTE. Browsing through provider sites, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile will be about the same price no matter which way you go in this situation – Chicago is covered by all three and the prices are almost exactly the same.
If Emma decides to sign up with Verizon, she will be charged $40.00 for the smartphone, and an extra $60, $70, or $80 per month for 2GB, 4GB, or 6GB of data, totaling to $100, $110, or $120 per month. Verizon also offers basic phones, tablets, connectable devices, hotspots, USB modems and home services – though in this scenario, the most efficient device for Emma to use for work would be a smartphone or a tablet.
A company called Clearwire has teamed up with Sprint, Intel, Motorola, Google, ZTE and Zyxel to develop a WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) structure. Its purpose so create the next generation of data transfer which is 10 times faster than 3G (Third Generation), in which we now know as 4G (Fourth Generation.)
There are some companies that provide WiMAX 4G to businesses. This is a wonderful thing to happen because if you have internet access the traditional way (through routers and wires) and something happens where it disconnectgs, you are left with nothing going on. Though a company called Towerstream provides 4G internet access, wirelessly, so that way when other businesses traditional cables go out, if you have Towerstream, you never lose your internet access – and it is the same quality and speed as a traditional setup. The displayed rate for Towerstream on their site is 8Mbps for $799 per month for two years.
Summarizing Emma’s search, her location in Chicago is covered well and practically all the same by all of the service providers and options listed above. Each network offers around the same pricing and the same devices – tablets, smartphones, basic phones, and hotspots are available. Towerstream is more of a special scenario if she wanted to use their service for her business, then she would have the 4G – though to get 4G LTE for her desired smartphone sticking with a service provider would be most efficient in her situation. The last detail comes down to what model of smartphone Emma would want and how much she would want to spend on that model.
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