broadband looks ok. up to 76Mb/s for £25 with unlimited downloads seems really good...
I bet I wont be able to get it as where I live there are no fibre cables of any network...and yet I live in new development
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broadband looks ok. up to 76Mb/s for £25 with unlimited downloads seems really good...
I bet I wont be able to get it as where I live there are no fibre cables of any network...and yet I live in new development
But do we know if there will be any throttling, like with BT or will it be fully unrestricted like Sky?
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The fiber plans seem a bit pointless, since they are are the same as BT's prices. The only differing factor they can offer is whether they traffic shape or not.
£14 per month line rental on top of that though.
That's pretty standard price. Sky has slightly cheaper line rental at £10
And places like virgin. You end up just a £ or two cheaper by not getting phone line.
Well that's disappointing. I don't understand how they expect to take customers from other networks?
I imagine the £36 contracts generally sell quite well so to have 500mb of data is absurd considering what other networks are offering at a similar price point. If you actually use your data to do what they've been showing off i.e. watch videos then you'll burn through 500mb in no time.
What really interested me was that the Note 2 had a higher handset cost than the iPhone 5, according to Engadget anyway.
I imagine the £36 contracts generally sell quite well so to have 500mb of data is absurd considering what other networks are offering at a similar price point. If you actually use your data to do what they've been showing off i.e. watch videos then you'll burn through 500mb in no time.
What really interested me was that the Note 2 had a higher handset cost than the iPhone 5, according to Engadget anyway.
Was thinking the same myself, like a first day of web design in a primary kind of bad.
They have a good 9-12 months of head start on the other providers, so they can essentially charge what they like.
Early adopters are always going to pay through the nose, and without any actual market competition they have a nice opportunity to recoup whatever investment they have made in the network up to this point.
Even 3G networks took a long while before we could get totally unlimited plans at decent prices (Three's One Plan etc) so it's wishful thinking that we would be offered something cheap, fast and with a large data allowance.
There is probably more value in advertising it as the latest and greatest '4G' than there is in telling customers about download limits and the like.
Early adopters are always going to pay through the nose, and without any actual market competition they have a nice opportunity to recoup whatever investment they have made in the network up to this point.
Even 3G networks took a long while before we could get totally unlimited plans at decent prices (Three's One Plan etc) so it's wishful thinking that we would be offered something cheap, fast and with a large data allowance.
There is probably more value in advertising it as the latest and greatest '4G' than there is in telling customers about download limits and the like.
Find it very difficult to read
I'd be very surprised if people left their current providers to pay these premiums
It's different, this isn't the start of mobile computing anymore. 3G wasn't advertised as streaming media and other heavy bandwidth usages. We also weren't expecting cheap, however I was expecting options that can actually do what was advertised. Even 8GB a month is useless for streaming media.
It's also a lot less that 12months they have.
The only selling point, is a little line on teh end off the bbc article. They want to devlop their own services and those won't use up your data allowances. So we will see what that means and the costs associated. If its anything like this it'll be a film rental for £6 a pop.
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do you stream a lot ? music?videos?
I have problems in finding out how much data I would need to stream music to mobile via 3g few hours per day..
I hate to say it but these prices will get people to switch - because they aren't aimed at the people that would actually use it.
Most people in the country are on EE, Vodafone & O2. Just go and have a look Vodafone and O2 for a good laugh at prices as well.
Those who like data are on Three (or possibly GiffGaff). Which has the lowest market share. Three are using unlimited data to get people to switch. Other companies are guarding data like crazy since it's where the growth is.
This won't stop joe-bloggs getting a slightly-more-expensive-than-Vodafone contract and bragging about having 4G when they only use 300MB/month.
Most people in the country are on EE, Vodafone & O2. Just go and have a look Vodafone and O2 for a good laugh at prices as well.
Those who like data are on Three (or possibly GiffGaff). Which has the lowest market share. Three are using unlimited data to get people to switch. Other companies are guarding data like crazy since it's where the growth is.
This won't stop joe-bloggs getting a slightly-more-expensive-than-Vodafone contract and bragging about having 4G when they only use 300MB/month.
I moved from Parkgate to Newbury a few months ago (just before they kicked everyone out of STJB) but I now work for the international arm so I drift further from consumer stuff each day.Edit2: Idle curiosity or do you work there also?
I'm genuinely surprised they went all premium with this, short of some magic sale I don't know if people will pay this sort of price for an iPhone 5 at xmas but I wont pretend I belong to marketing, you have to believe they have worked it out in paddington.
The fibre plan is just re-packaged BT (I'd wager throttling) as they are providing a lot of the last mile for EE 4G sites through the absolute crapton of darkfibre they own and the agreement was that there would be bundling.
Yes, 500mb would last me untill my first shift stuck in the van, then last under an hour.
Netflix is 0.5-2.3GB an Hour depending on qaulity
Iplayer 50-225mb per hour
Spotify is roughly 47mb-144mb an hour
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Oddly I've just gone the other way, from NSN/Voda in Newbury up to EE In Bristol, currently at the EW TF building which overlooks STJB. Small world.
The new tariffs don't seem to be going down too well, just the feeling I get from reading the web/forums. Hopefully Olaf and his marketing team know what they're doing.
that's a lot...you have giff gaff or three ? any problems with any of them providers in terms of interent usage streaming in your case ? thanks
On giffgaff, the speed on o2 isn't great at all, but if you have a good speed it's fine.
Will be moving to three, get far better Internet speeds on three.
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Well EE and just priced themselves out of everyone who is not loaded....