3 network getting 4g?

funkylogik · February 5th, 2013, 12:53 PM

I just read on Appy Geek that 3 are rolling out 4g at no extra cost but the article mentioned a rolling contract betwen £12-19.
Im on the pre-pay no contract £15p/m sim.
Does anyone know how this will affect us?

Tbh id hoped 3 would just keep thier 3g channel open but it would be less busy due to people payin for 3g but 4g for no extra charge sounds great if they dont mess it up

CDPlant · February 5th, 2013, 01:40 PM

They'll continue their 3G HSPA network working as usual for at least a few more years

To be honest their 3G is nearly as fast as 4G sometimes so I'm in no rush

We don't have the i9305 so no 4G on our current phones, will have to get an upgrade if people want it

funkylogik · February 5th, 2013, 02:24 PM

Lmao id actualy forgot we dont have the radio so i hope to hell they keep 3g runnin. The way the article read, they were replacing one with the other but i spoze that wouldnt be viable.
What hspa+ d/load speeds do u get m8?
Am hopin the 4g users will take the pressure of us skint 3g customers

CDPlant · February 5th, 2013, 04:35 PM

I usually get about 9/10 Mbps down and 4 up

not bad! I do live and work right beside two towers so my signal is bound to be good

Don't worry, 3 have more than enough capacity to deal with their amount of customers, no need to worry about the pressure on the network (source: its my job

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funkylogik · February 5th, 2013, 05:07 PM

Aparently my mast is 0.3miles away and at 1st i war gettin 10-16mb/s but its really slowed down recently. Thinkin of goin back to giffgaff.
Just there i got 1mb/s!!
Unacceptable and i hear o2 (giffgaff use thier infrastructure) have speeded up thier 3g

EDIT u work for 3 mate?
Best thing bout them is they havent cut me off for tethering and i use like 30gb p/m n wouldnt get away with that on Giffgaff (although they advertise as bein truly unlimited, they disconnect u at 15gb)

SUroot · February 6th, 2013, 01:44 AM

I'd settle for a wider 3g net really.

Gomjaba · February 6th, 2013, 10:02 AM

You can always pickup an i9305 unlocked from Amazon but that will certainly be an imported one - as a result you won't have a BTU firmware or CSC - having said that - you can change all that once rooted and you might still not get OTA updates when EE is releasing them - again - usually not an issue but it depends what's important to you.

But I agree - 3's HSPA+ is pretty speedy ...my contract is up for renewal in September so hopefully they have the i9305 by then

Ghost10bxl · February 6th, 2013, 03:16 PM

I would love to have 4G, but apparently I walked into an EE shop and asked, and the lady there said how much do you pay a month? I said £31 (I'm on contract) and she said we'll take your current S3 and replace it with 4G capable S3 but you''ll have to pay another £100 and pay £36 each month. You'll get 500MB internet when at the moment, from 3 I get Unlimited 3G Internet lol

BTW is their UltraFast network equivalent to 4G/LTE?

funkylogik · February 6th, 2013, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghost10bxl

I would love to have 4G, but apparently I walked into an EE shop and asked, and the lady there said how much do you pay a month? I said £31 (I'm on contract) and she said we'll take your current S3 and replace it with 4G capable S3 but you''ll have to pay another £100 and pay £36 each month. You'll get 500MB internet when at the moment, from 3 I get Unlimited 3G Internet lol

BTW is their UltraFast network equivalent to 4G/LTE?

****that mate!!!
And yes
500mb lmao that would destroy me!

Gomjaba · February 7th, 2013, 01:25 AM

I laughed in a EE shop when he gave me the limited bandwidth figure. I asked him what the point of faster internet is when I am not allowed to use it. His response 'an average user will only need 500M'. My response 'an average user won't know the difference between 3G/4G or HSPA+. If he does, he'll stick with '3', HSPA+ and unlimited data.

same thing when broadband started out. I remember a company offering ADSL 2+ at 'high speed' with 5GB limit but saying that you can download a DVD in no time (which technically would push you over the limit).

Anyway, I leave playing guinea pig for EE to the 'average user'.

Shotgun84 · February 7th, 2013, 04:10 AM

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Originally Posted by funkylogik

Aparently my mast is 0.3miles away and at 1st i war gettin 10-16mb/s but its really slowed down recently. Thinkin of goin back to giffgaff.
Just there i got 1mb/s!!
Unacceptable and i hear o2 (giffgaff use thier infrastructure) have speeded up thier 3g

EDIT u work for 3 mate?
Best thing bout them is they havent cut me off for tethering and i use like 30gb p/m n wouldnt get away with that on Giffgaff (although they advertise as bein truly unlimited, they disconnect u at 15gb)

Are you nearing the end of your all in one 15 add on? The same happens to me towards the end of the 30 days. If you ask 3 if they throttle data for the highest users they'll say they don't but they'd be lying.

I've moved this over to the 3 forum

Shotgun84 · February 7th, 2013, 07:14 AM

There's not much info on when it'll happen only that it'll be this year
4G on Three Mobile - best data speeds on 3G

Gomjaba · February 7th, 2013, 12:41 PM

But didn't they say its not LTE/4G but Hspa+42 ?

Shotgun84 · February 7th, 2013, 10:54 PM

dc-hspa which is the step up from hspa+ is already available to some parts of the country but this along with 4g will be implemented to the rest of the country during the year.

funkylogik · February 9th, 2013, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Shotgun84

Are you nearing the end of your all in one 15 add on? The same happens to me towards the end of the 30 days. If you ask 3 if they throttle data for the highest users they'll say they don't but they'd be lying.

I've moved this over to the 3 forum

Yeah and im near the end mate.
And yeah 3 denied throttling me (said they didnt have the capability) even though ive tethered 10gb this month.
Do you use the alternative APN that bypasses thier torrent site block? Dont worry mods i wont tell it on here

P.s. should my data go back to unthrottled at start of paying month mate?

Shotgun84 · February 9th, 2013, 01:11 PM

I've never had torrent sites blocked. I did have to use the apn 3internet.co.uk instead of three.co.uk for a while as I'd be trying to access legit none porn related sites and their filter would flag it as adult and I'd get redirected to their own porn site. In the end I phoned them up and registered my credit card which didn't appear to do anything at first but since a few months ago I've been able to use the three.co.uk apn without any problems. My internet speeds always pick up again when I buy another add on at the beginning of the month.

funkylogik · February 9th, 2013, 08:59 PM

Yeah its the 3internet APN (no other fields filled in other than "name") i use coz I dont have a credit card or drivers license to get parental lock off (and torrent/apk search barr)
Ill search for whatever i want on my own unlocked phone lol (n im not into porn either lol)

N cool. Il look forward to faster speeds in a week

Dont wana go back to GG

Gomjaba · February 11th, 2013, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by funkylogik

im not into porn either lol)

Totally believable

funkylogik · February 11th, 2013, 12:59 PM

Lmao im honestly not

My mrs is 11years younger than me.... last thing i wana look at when i get peace n quiet is porn lmao