4G EE coming to Stafford

Darren

Darren

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I have been on 4G for three weeks now and i love it, the coverage is good and the speed difference is amazing, the only thing is the max package you can get is unlimited calls and texts plus 3GB of data and it costs me £46 a month, it also included for free the latest Samsung Galaxy 4. You also get by one get one on cinema tickets on Wednesdays :)
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
I'd be more than happy to go with 4G, but I would need an unlimited amount of data and am not prepared to pay silly money for it when 3G works well enough for now. When prices come down to nearer the £25 per month 3 charge me then the idea will become more appealing.
 
shoes

shoes

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Darren said:
I have been on 4G for three weeks now and i love it, the coverage is good and the speed difference is amazing, the only thing is the max package you can get is unlimited calls and texts plus 3GB of data and it costs me £46 a month, it also included for free the latest Samsung Galaxy 4. You also get by one get one on cinema tickets on Wednesdays :)
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£46 a month :o yowch!
 
db

db

#chaplife
i've seen a few people mention this on facebook recently - i didn't realise it was a "new" thing, i've had it (LTE) ever since i got my first iphone a few weeks ago and obviously just been taking it for granted!

Darren said:
I have been on 4G for three weeks now and i love it, the coverage is good and the speed difference is amazing, the only thing is the max package you can get is unlimited calls and texts plus 3GB of data and it costs me £46 a month, it also included for free the latest Samsung Galaxy 4. You also get by one get one on cinema tickets on Wednesdays :)
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guess this depends on your network/handset - i'm with EE and went for the best value iphone deal, which gives me 10GB a month for that price (although i'm lucky enough to have a friend who works for EE, so actually only pay half that).. i think it comes with 5GB a month as standard, then you get to choose a bolt-on (e.g. international calls, extra data, etc.) at no extra cost, so i opted for an extra 5GB a month..

i can't believe how fast it is.. i was on t-mobile before, and struggled to get a connection at all (even if i was in the middle of town) on my crappy htc sensation, so i just assumed all mobile data was a bit wonky.. how wrong i was! tethered my computer to my iphone last week and ran speedtest:

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24mb/s down and nearly 4mb/s up! and those are solid, consistent speeds - at one point while running the above test my upload was 6.8mb/s, so the burst rate must be even higher :eek:

just to put that in perspective, that's more than 4 times faster than your average home ADSL connection.. sky are coming to install a phone line in my new house in a couple of weeks (because it's not a cabled area so gAyDSL is my only choice :( ), but i'm giving serious thought to telling them to not bother and just using my tethered iphone connection.. my only concern is that, as reasonable as 10GB a month is, a couple of HD films would wipe that out in one go..

tl; dr = LTE is amazing and i would recommend anyone who uses mobile data gets onboard asap :P
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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I rarely use my 3G as it is, I'm usually in a wifi area and have a fast connection at home for any serious stuff. I rarely use 500Mb a month, so the idea of paying £Stupid to get a faster connection does not appeal. I got my S3 on launch pretty much and got 900/ultd/1Gb for less than £30/month, £46 a month is too much for a phone in my eyes.
 
db

db

#chaplife
tek-monkey said:
I rarely use my 3G as it is, I'm usually in a wifi area and have a fast connection at home for any serious stuff. I rarely use 500Mb a month, so the idea of paying £Stupid to get a faster connection does not appeal. I got my S3 on launch pretty much and got 900/ultd/1Gb for less than £30/month, £46 a month is too much for a phone in my eyes.
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i was exactly the same, but part of that was due to the fact that i could rarely get a 3G connection and so just never used the network features of my phone when i was away from a wifi area.. now that i have a permanent LTE connection that is faster than wifi, i find myself using it all the time - far more than i ever thought i would.. just little things, like i have dropbox set to automatically upload all photos i take the instant i take them (so there's no faffing about transferring them/waiting for them to upload once i'm home), facebook notifies me when friends are nearby, tether the ipad to it when i'm on the move, etc.. little things that i could certainly live without, but are nice little gadgets to have all the same :)

i agree, the tariffs are eye-watering, but if i do go down the road of using it as my sole internet connection (i.e. tether my home machine to it) then it would actually work out cheaper in that respect.. it would mean i'd have to kerb my wanton downloading, though..
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
My dropbox synchs but only when I enter a wifi area (I think! it def synchs), but I guess I'm lucky as the only place my phone wont work in town is the Greyhound pub.
 
db

db

#chaplife
tek-monkey said:
My dropbox synchs but only when I enter a wifi area (I think! it def synchs), but I guess I'm lucky as the only place my phone wont work in town is the Greyhound pub.
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yeah, if i had previously got any kind of network connection on my old phone/network, i probably wouldn't be so gushing about LTE - but it was all but useless with my old HTC on t-mobile (i couldn't even get GPRS most of the time, let alone 3G) so it's more the fact that i now have, quide literally, Everything Everywhere™ that's giving me a stiffy :teef:
 
iamlegend

iamlegend

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4g is a waste of money at the min far to expensive , O2 , Giffgaff , Vodafone , 3 and every other network will launch back end of this year more competition better price
 
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