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Who among you has queued outside the phone shop to have it Right Now?
Not I. 3G is fast enough for out and about IME. Your usage pattern may vary 😉
Had it for a while in Aus, it's ruddy quick on my iPhone 5!
Not even got 3G never mind 4G, had an iphone since they came out and never used a 3G signal once, that what comes of staying in galloway though and theres nae chance of us ever getting it, that's why i buy my iphone outright and choose my own contract.
I heard on Radio Scotland this morning that Glasgow / Edinburgh have a 4G signal though, approx £36 for a data plan with 500mb of 4G use, so thats 2 & bit hours of video a month?....sounds like a real bargain eh? [img] 
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Was in a Orange shop seeing about a phone upgrade and the guy was sporting a 'Ask me about 4G' t-shirt.
Thought it rude not to ask him, he responded "It's shite pal" 😀
The shop is way outside any of the cities that currently have 4G so it was fair enough advice.
I built some of O2's 4G test network in London. Not actually used it though....
TBF, if you're trying to watch that much streaming video on 4G you're doing it wrong. It's more about fast access to relatively small chunks of data.
TBF, if you're trying to watch that much streaming video on 4G you're doing it wrong. It's more about fast access to relatively small chunks of data.
Not necessarily....
UK Broadband are rolling out 4G as a DSL alternative: http://www.ukbroadband.com/4g-networks
TBF, if you're trying to watch that much streaming video on 4G you're doing it wrong. It's more about fast access to relatively small chunks of data.
Possibly, but whenever 4G/LTE is demo'd or usage example cited, it's invariably streaming video.
Possibly, but whenever 4G/LTE is demo'd or usage example cited, it's invariably streaming video.
So far that's all thats been mentioned on the news, "you can download a movie on the move in minutes" , woppee f-kin doo.....coz that's we've all been waiting for isn't it?, or watching x-facter re-runs on the move, or viewing vids on you-tube of cats wearing capes and hats whilst playing the mouth organ. Idiots!!, how about sorting out a reliable mobile phone service for those of us who stay in a rural area first.
Three will be good on 4g on their unlimited internet plan, orange, 02 and voda known for crap internet usage on phones they wanted 35pm off me for a tariff which gave me 500mb woho!!! Lol
3 won't be offering unlimited 4G data plans, in fact if EE's take up is good then the next wave of 4G providers will have equally crap data limits. I'm not really sure who would sign up for EE's service as it stands, outside of a few businesses with specific requirements and rich people that don't care how much it is.
?; i heard they had equal rights and three is the "internetting" network theyve allways had the best data plans
It would be nice to achieve 3g everywhere like Harlyn Bay near Padstow or the M5 near Gloucester for example. Maybe then move on to 4g.
Laughable company name Everything Everywhere, simply get around advertising standards that regulate that claims must be real by using a name that gives the impression that it will be everywhere.
What next? A hair loss [u]prevention [/u]treatment that calls itself, say, regain to give the impression that it can restore your hair when it can't.
Bet the other operators were rolling on the floor after EE announced their prices. £36 for an allowance you can chew through in a little under 80 seconds...
Currently getting 7mb dl and 3mb upload on 3g (iphone 5)
Quite adequate imho esp as its an unlimited tariff
I'd like to see 3G actually rolled out along the SarfCarst first before any jiggerypokery and wand waving happens with 4G.
Unrealistic claims and vastly over egged.
Bet the other operators were rolling on the floor after EE announced their prices. £36 for an allowance you can chew through in a little under 80 seconds...
Explain please? I'd like to understand how to much data I use to measure it against EE's plans...
No interest in a 4G phone. HSDPA is plenty fast enough.
I do however have a fairly strong interest in 4G dongles though. Not least because it would improve on the 0.9mbps we get as home broadband.
I'm just not understanding why anyone would find a super fast download speed with a limit that can be gobbled up so quickly (at those sort of speeds) particularly appealing.
Again, consistent reasonable speeds (3G) nationally available rather than super fast speeds for a few city dwellers would seem a much better goal.
In terms of general internet experience, latency is the biggest advantage of 4G over download speed.
I would even take less than my current HSDPA speed if the reliability and latency were better.
I'm just hoping the mobile networks wake up to the possibilities of rolling out 4G in the sticks where wired broadband download is 2Mbps or worse and there's next to no chance of fibre coming this century. If they actually have the foresight to do that rather than chasing the quick bucks in the cities 4G might actually be useful but rather doubt this will be the case.
I was gonna as due a phone upgrade, was waiting for the price plans to come out, saw them and thought **** that!
Have a friend who had 4G when living in Tokyo, he said the difference was substantial.
I've just checked the plan prices and yes they are taking the p1ss, you'd be mad to sign up for 24 months at these prices. I am an existing EE customer.
Am using it right now in the US. The improvement in both speed and latency is massive compared with my experiences of UK 3G. The flip side is that for my unlimited data contract I pay something like 60 quid a month. Also, trying to have it as my only source of internet I've the last few weeks has been frustrating: speed is highly dependent on both reception and time of day, which can make anything other than email and light web browsing impossible.
The latency for 4G is much lower - think ping times in the region of 20ms rather than 100ms. Means you'll be able to play multiplayer games etc on it.
Expect all the operators to charge a lot for it - they need to monitise data as voice revenues are falling (and make up most of their current revenues) and 4g gives them a peg to hang it off. Tho I imagine they'll do what operators in other geographies have done, such as offering unlimited amounts of specific sites (e.g. you'd get a limit of 500mb + unlimited streaming of the disney channel).