Even though it took a bit of time, you Brits finally can experience the fastest mobile speeds. The only determining factor for you all is the price.
I don't understand the appeal of 4G.
It'd be better for providers to focus on bringing 3G+ everywhere; it offers very good download speeds, and in my experience, an upload speed that's twice my home ADSL (~200 kilobytes per sec).
You don't need to stream 1080p movies on your phone on-the-go.
Why do 4G phones have only single or dual-core processors?
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;37338393]I don't understand the appeal of 4G.
It'd be better for providers to focus on bringing 3G+ everywhere; it offers very good download speeds, and in my experience, an upload speed that's twice my home ADSL (~200 kilobytes per sec).
You don't need to stream 1080p movies on your phone on-the-go.[/QUOTE]Because 4G done right can be faster than fibreoptics
[QUOTE=dije;37338418]Because 4G done right can be faster than fibreoptics[/QUOTE]
Yah because that's actually 4G LTE-Advanced and this is not. This is just LTE. 4G is supposed to be sustained 100Mbit/s downstream during high mobility and 1Gbit/s downstream during low mobility like using a data stick on a laptop. LTE right now is 150Mbit/s downstream during low mobility on a high frequency band like 2600MHz.
[QUOTE=dije;37338418]Because 4G done right can be faster than fibreoptics[/QUOTE]
You sure? Here in Sweden, Karlskrona. I am currently using 4G, it's fast alright. Currently getting around 45 Mbit/s (up and down). While where on fiber one can get 100 Mbit/s (up and down). While it might be worth to say is that the 4G of all the operators I know, say that their 4G can at best come up to 80 Mbit/s.
[QUOTE=dije;37338418]Because 4G done right can be faster than fibreoptics[/QUOTE]
LTE 'peak rate' is 299.6 Mbit/s according to Wikipedia (Good luck getting that in the real world, around 45Mbit/s is more realistic).
Typical fiber optic connections are 10 or 40 Gbit/s.
Just because BT and Virgin are too lazy to lay fiber all the way to your doorstep doesn't mean it's slower than LTE.
[QUOTE=IAmAnooB;37338465]You sure? Here in Sweden, Karlskrona. I am currently using 4G, it's fast alright. Currently getting around 45 Mbit/s (up and down). While where on fiber one can get 100 Mbit/s (up and down). While it might be worth to say is that the 4G of all the operators I know, say that their 4G can at best come up to 80 Mbit/s.[/QUOTE]
It's Faux-G, nowhere in the world has a 4G network. LTE is what is referred to as 3.9G. It's not there yet.
I'm happy with my GiffGaff. £10 a month and you get unlimited texts, unlimited internet (Under a very lax fair use policy which is about 1GB an hour, not bad!) and 350 minutes - and it's not on a legally binding contract, it's buy when you need it. I normally just do PAYG though, 20p/mb but you get the first 20mb for the price of 1!
[QUOTE=BBgamer720;37338808]I'm happy with my GiffGaff. £10 a month and you get unlimited texts, unlimited internet (Under a very lax fair use policy which is about 1GB an hour, not bad!) and 350 minutes - and it's not on a legally binding contract, it's buy when you need it. I normally just do PAYG though, 20p/mb but you get the first 20mb for the price of 1![/QUOTE]
GiffGaff will get 4G when O2 do (or when O2 let them have it).
They need to focus on making sure you get good coverage over most of the country before they start doing 4G.
The only time I'd really need 4G is when I'm travelling on the train and want to watch a movie on netflix or something, but that really doesnt help when you lose signal every 2 minutes. Also I have streamed a whole film with 3G before and it never had to stop to buffer, so I'd much rather them focus on expanding the coverage of the current 3G network.
[QUOTE=dije;37338418]Because 4G done right can be faster than fibreoptics[/QUOTE]
Fibreoptics operate with the speed of light and are only limited by the equipment we currently have when we translate the light into data. Currently the record fibreoptics have come to as far as I know [url=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028095.500-ultrafast-fibre-optics-set-new-speed-record.html]is 100 Tbit/s[/url] which is still not it's full potential.
Fibreoptics can never be beaten by technology like 4G.
He wanted orange. They gave him lemon-lime.
There's actually a quad core Exynos Galaxy S III in Korea that supports LTE on their 800MHz LTE network. Tegra chips will also support it soon as well.
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