Over at The Register that have an article on Verizon's CDMA 1xEV-DO rollout. The Reg, given its history of sharp talons, should have done a better job on this one. EV-DO still has the same ultra-narrowband uplink as regular CDMA 1xRTT. The latency is truly awful making a whole swathe of real-time apps unusable. The quoted downlink speed is peak burst, near the cell tower. Lord help you if the system is under load and you're near the edge of the cell (like most of the area covered by a cell tower is).
Ultimately, no customers were consulted in producing the 3G specs, and they are the opposite of what an end-to-end network would seek to provide: reliable, predictable, low latency, symmetric bandwidth.
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