are you paying for 4g straight away? - still 7-10 days is slow!
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are you paying for 4g straight away? - still 7-10 days is slow!
Well nothing seems to changed, my online t mobile account is the same, I'm pretty much taking their word that it was done.
Some more BBC testing across Manchester and London. Looks like speeds are quite inconsistent:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20121054
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20121054
I'd rather they didn't have signal boosting going on tbh. I remember buying a handset from Three once, having the guy show me that it had full signal "Three signal is great round here!", paid up, walked out of the store and thud. One bar. Spent half an hour in town looking at signal strength before returning the handset to store. He wasn't happy, but he gave me a refund.
LOL my local ee store has all the phones connected to instore wifi and got annoyed when i turned wifi off on them all and pointed out that none had LTE coverage - SE9 - supposedly good coverage
Mate, thats brilliant, +15 man points!
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Blimey, I've just done some Man Maths...
12 months on the 8GB tariff at £66pm = £792.
Up front EE want £29.99 for a 32GB handset or £139.99 for a 64GB handset.
So in total over the 12 months it's £821.99 (£792 + £29.99) with the 32GB, or £931.99 (£792 + £139.99) with the 64GB.
EE's handset subsidies are quite generous though... Apple want £599 for the 32GB and £699 for the 64GB! I guess EE must be buying them at quite a discount from Apple.
£821.99 total - £599 (Apple handset cost) = £222.99 for the actual service over the year. Divide by 12 months = £18.60 per month.
£931.99 total - £699 (Apple handset cost) = £232.99 for the actual service over the year. Divide by 12 months = £19.41 per month.
If I don't go EE, I'll be continuing my £20 SIM-only tariff with O2 and buying an unlocked handset from Apple. I've got unlimited texts, I can't remember how many minutes (I only use 800 per month), and unlimited data but no tethering. So minutes and 4G would be an upgrade with EE (plus their 3G coverage is better than O2), but it'd be only 8GB rather than unlimited data.
12 more months at my current £20pm = £240. I'd be paying either £599 or £699 for the handset from Apple. That'd either be £839 or £939 total... which are both more than going with EE!
12 months on the 8GB tariff at £66pm = £792.
Up front EE want £29.99 for a 32GB handset or £139.99 for a 64GB handset.
So in total over the 12 months it's £821.99 (£792 + £29.99) with the 32GB, or £931.99 (£792 + £139.99) with the 64GB.
EE's handset subsidies are quite generous though... Apple want £599 for the 32GB and £699 for the 64GB! I guess EE must be buying them at quite a discount from Apple.
£821.99 total - £599 (Apple handset cost) = £222.99 for the actual service over the year. Divide by 12 months = £18.60 per month.
£931.99 total - £699 (Apple handset cost) = £232.99 for the actual service over the year. Divide by 12 months = £19.41 per month.
If I don't go EE, I'll be continuing my £20 SIM-only tariff with O2 and buying an unlocked handset from Apple. I've got unlimited texts, I can't remember how many minutes (I only use 800 per month), and unlimited data but no tethering. So minutes and 4G would be an upgrade with EE (plus their 3G coverage is better than O2), but it'd be only 8GB rather than unlimited data.
12 more months at my current £20pm = £240. I'd be paying either £599 or £699 for the handset from Apple. That'd either be £839 or £939 total... which are both more than going with EE!
Inconsistent or not, the speeds were still getting around 16Mbps and higher.
Of the 3 places that were low -
So there is poor signal inside this building for all networks on all phones.... Shocker that 4G was slower here. I'll bet it is still quicker than 3G speeds in same place
So no data signal at all i.e. not even 3G
Eh? EE dont say they can get 98% coverage you fud. They state 98% coverage by end of 2014 IIRC.
Cellan-Jones is a ***. If you ever read his articles you will realise this. He cannot write a tech article to save his life and seems to go for big statements which are usually always incorrect or biased over actual proper reporting and journalism.
Take that report with a barrel of salt.
Networks do not pay anywhere near this sort of price, not even remotely close sorry
Gotta love man maths
If you went directly with Three on The One Plan you'd pay £39 for 24 months plus £89 up front so a total of £1,025. So to compare that fairly to the EE 12 month deal if you added on an extra 12 months at £20 then you'd be at £1,079; not a bad deal at all if you do get to take advantage of the 4G without running out of data.
Vodafone do 12 month contracts which come out at £851, regardless of which particular tariff you choose. You would however be limited to only 500-1000mb of data so not even worth comparing really
My understanding of it was you would pay the £99 to swap your handset and then you'd just swap straight over to the equivalent priced tariff, e.g. if you were on £46 a month on Orange then you'd go to the £46 EE tariff. But obviously the staff will know more than I
Seems odd they would charge you £99 and charge you again for the handset though, not much of an incentive really is it
I would say its wise to do the same with EE's claimed speeds, bandwidth and coverage.
As someone else posted SE9 is meant to be good coverage, yet their store cannot receive a 4g signal. "Its because they were inside a building" isn't any use is it, unless EE are going to tell people to go outside to download/browse the net ?
I wonder if they will put up EE shelters like the smoker shelters
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Thats wrong mate they are to do whats called a wonke upgrade so £99 swap no handset charge. If you get a sec can you send me which store it was and ill sort it with them
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4g Is really good, tested it out in store today. 1 Bar 4g I got a good 10-12mb download, shortly afterwards it dropped to H+ with full bars and it only got 1mb, this was in OX Street so I guess it was very packed and a lot of people there hogging the network.
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