WCDMA, supported on O2??

UOcUK Poopscoop · 17 Mar 2008 at 00:52

Waiting for a secondhand E61i to turn up.

It supports WCDMA, will this be supported on O2?

I am guessing WCDMA was the precursor to HSDPA?

Thanks for any info.

Tunney · 17 Mar 2008 at 08:00

WCDMA is a catch-all term for 3G technologies such as UMTS (the precursor to HSDPA), HSDPA and HSUPA.

The E61i supports UMTS and so does O2.

UOcUK Poopscoop · 17 Mar 2008 at 20:40

So what would be the fastest *potential* download speed be?

Ta for help!

mrochester · 17 Mar 2008 at 20:40

UOcUK Poopscoop said:
So what would be the fastest *potential* download speed be?

Ta for help!

384kbps.

UOcUK Poopscoop · 17 Mar 2008 at 23:11

Ta for info, ocuk comes to the rescue again!

Just out of interest, does HSDPA allow faster downloads?

ps3ud0 · 17 Mar 2008 at 23:18

Depending on network and your device you could have in theory upto 14.4Mbs.

Ive only seen upto 7.2Mbs devices (like the Vodafone USB Modem), but for normal mobiles the 1.8Mbs is much more likely (dont know any mobiles that support higher than 1.8Mbs come to think of it)...

Ive got a Vario 3 and normally get over 1Mbs

ps3ud0 :cool:

Tunney · 18 Mar 2008 at 00:23

The N95 and other recent N-series phones go up to 3.6 Mbps.

I haven't seen any 7.2 Mbps phones yet though.

UOcUK Poopscoop · 18 Mar 2008 at 01:39

I will be putting the E61i on the PAYG O2 tariff with the "unlimited" Web Bolt on.

Can I expect a decent speed through this? I mean to say is the PAYG service slower than pay monthly or anything?

kaks · 18 Mar 2008 at 02:40

ps3ud0 said:
Depending on network and your device you could have in theory upto 14.4Mbs.

Ive only seen upto 7.2Mbs devices (like the Vodafone USB Modem), but for normal mobiles the 1.8Mbs is much more likely (dont know any mobiles that support higher than 1.8Mbs come to think of it)...

Ive got a Vario 3 and normally get over 1Mbs

ps3ud0

Vodafone will be hitting 14.4 by the end of the year and will be trialling 28.8mbps soon after..

They all will tbh..