O2 speed increase

uvarvu · 18 Mar 2011 at 14:37

O2 has enabled the UMTS900 band on their network. Only some phones will benefit along with a few areas of the UK.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/18/o2_3g_900mhz/

Has anyone with the right phone in the right area seen any improvements?

Bobcat · 18 Mar 2011 at 15:10

uvarvu said:
Has anyone with the right phone in the right area seen any improvements?

Not that i have noticed to be honest, all my mobile devices are on the O2 Network, Blackberry, Mobile 3G Dongle and a HTC DHD, i see no increase in speed at all yet, or none that i have noticed.

Traveling at the moment on a train from London and the 3G Dongle is registering 7.2mbps on HSDPA but speed tests are only seeing 0.48 down and 0.92 up.

Glaucus · 18 Mar 2011 at 15:13

Kind of offtopic
I think o2 are fibbing to me. Just cancelled my contract and they aid that they are spending 1million a day on upgrading the network, especially 3g service. However if they are spending that much, maybe o2 will finally get a decent 3g service in 6-12months.

MeddlE · 18 Mar 2011 at 17:01

Last time I checked I got 1000kbps up and 480 down.
Just tested now and got 1658 up and 765 down.

Quite an improvement.

Cosimo · 18 Mar 2011 at 17:13

I'm seen an improvement on my Nexus S. Speedtest is getting 3095 up and 1652 down.

Gammawolf · 18 Mar 2011 at 17:31

I'm not in a listed area but achieve 3708Kbps down and 1784Kbps up, can't wait for this to come to sheffield

englishpremier · 18 Mar 2011 at 17:44

The O2 network here seems dire. I'm getting 0.3Mb down and 0.27 up and that is connected via HSDPA

O2 has the worst 3G coverage of all the main players. 86% as detailed in OFCOMs damming report of the provider.

I think in response O2 were going to install 1500 new transmitters.

KIA · 19 Mar 2011 at 15:11

Nice marketing stunt. Their coverage and throughput have gone from completely awful to bloody awful.

Vanquished007 · 19 Mar 2011 at 16:35

Not seen any improvement here.

Gammawolf · 20 Mar 2011 at 00:34

fluff said:
Nice marketing stunt. Their coverage and throughput have gone from completely awful to bloody awful.

Guess that depends on your point of view, dad switched to O2 cause it was the only signal he could get out in the peak district where he works and i'm not exactly complaining with over double the UK average mobile download speed

loltim · 20 Mar 2011 at 00:48

Does this affect Tesco?

robj20 · 20 Mar 2011 at 06:49

HTC Desire, just got 4.44Mbps down and 1.65Mbps up using speedtest.net

Myshra · 21 Mar 2011 at 09:25

AcidHell2 said:
Kind of offtopic
I think o2 are fibbing to me. Just cancelled my contract and they aid that they are spending 1million a day on upgrading the network, especially 3g service. However if they are spending that much, maybe o2 will finally get a decent 3g service in 6-12months.

They likely are, network upkeep is serious cash, £1M a day is small fry to what I suspect the joint t-mob/3/orange network costs tbh. It will cost a lot more than £1M a day to roll out LTE that's for sure.

uvarvu · 21 Mar 2011 at 09:47

I work near Chancery Lane and for the first time ever I have full signal in my office. Before I used to get one bar, sometimes two.

Abraham · 21 Mar 2011 at 12:37

I got pretty good before at 3ish down and 1ish up, just run speedtest and getting 1.6 up but -0 down, so not sure if the down has increased, on a N1