Balls, I didn't realise they actually did 4g on Three. Going to have to ring up and try and change my One plan to Ultimate Internet now. Three are ****s over the phone though.
Ellewood, here's something that may interest you. Hull is the only city in England that has its own telephone network. If you move to Hull from say Southampton, your broadband will not work. Kingston Communications are world leaders in telecommunications and have a monopoly in Hull. Many of the innovations in telephones started off with KC, all whilst in the ownership of the people of the city!
I was getting virtually no signal while on Orange last season, but it's been fine if occasionally slow on Three this season.
To start, I must say I work for EE, so you may want to take anything I say from here on with whatever pinch of salt you wish. But to try and answer some of the questions... In my opinion, it's bloody brilliant (refer to the part above, so I'm not paying, just testing the network). On my iPhone 4S over the 3G network, I can get download data rates around 7Mb/s. If I use my Galaxy S3, I can get upto 12Mb/s over 3G. On the 4G network, I've personally seen speeds over 40Mb/s at one of our offices, speeds around 30Mb/s in Camden but I generally get around 20Mb/s in most places I test. Upload speeds tends to be around the 20Mb/s mark. Of course, this is still early days and things will improve when the networks are better optimised Technically the statment that Hull had its service activated on Boxing Day is not true. The first operational site went live the Tuesday before the Leicester game. Because of that, I'd been asked to carry out measurements in the St Stephens shop after the game. I also did a few measurements from the ground into town and was getting 20Mb/s from the footbridge by the ground Interesting theory, and one that does hold some water. Many users mean 3G data rates do decrease (as the network resource is shared across the users), but when you think that in the real world 3G is really pushing it at 14Mb/s, whereas in theory 4G could reach speeds over 300Mb/s (when I say in theory, it'll never happen in practise, but the desktop theory is there) A couple of years ago, Orange and T-Mobile merged into one company, Everything Everywhere. The two networks have been going through a process of merging (from a while back, Orange and T-Mobile customers have been able to use the 'other' network. In practise the network being used is the EE network, but you'll have an Orange or T-Mobile (or EE) branded contract. The EE brand was launched late last year as the '4G' brand. 4G is actually a technology step up from 3G Can you PM me through twitter (I follow you and have a very similar user-name) rough postcodes of areas to have a look at, and if I get time, I'll try and see what the situation on the local sites is. Erm, yes, this is a known problem. An Engineer has created a list of all capacity hot spots around the UK and is constantly wittering on that the KC Stadium is the highest priority venue in the UK, particularly a seat in E5 (more senior people think a place called Old Trafford maybe more important, but why would a cricket ground be more important than the KC?). I think the rest of the company are sick of hearing me complain about it now. We've attempted to make contact with the club to put additional capacity into the stadium, but we're not having much luck - I think they're misunderstanding my proposals. I'm just hoping that todays interview with Nick Thompson may give me some leverage to get a better foot in the door. But I am working on it! Unfortunately not quite true. We have to swap out some equipment on the sites and also the connections to the rest of the network to enable 4G, but we're getting there Three don't yet have 4G. They will soon (I think) but not yet (there are very dull reasons behind this - partly explained why EE can launch 4G now, but I won't bore you on that topic) I think that covers most of what's been asked, but let me know if I can bore you with any more detail!
Cranbrook lovley place. used to be on call at the fire station there at the top of the high st if they were short and needed extra people to sit on station. assuming youll be coming down to the brighton game
Ellewoods is in America so they may be correct for them. The other thing to watch (on the transatlantic thing) is that the networks don't operate on the same bandwidths everywhere. I can't remember if it was a 3G or 4G issue, but last year Apple had to remove from iPad adverts in the UK the bit about being compatible with it because it turned out it wasn't going to work with UK 3/4G as the tech was the same as the US release.
AT&T says "more than 40% of ... post-paid smartphone customers use a 4G capable device." T-Mobile says "nearly 60% of our customers ... carry smartphones, and over half ... are 4G capable." Verizon says nearly "12% of our 89 million retail postpaid connections are 4G LTE as of the 2nd quarter of 2012." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/111512-lte-4g-264316.html Here are some maps with the 4g coverage, although it is a few months old. http://techland.time.com/2012/09/07/4g-lte-reality-check-where-a-4g-iphone-would-matter/ Literally in those areas without the coverage almost no body lives. IE desert, high mountains, salt flats, national parks etc. So just about everywhere has the option it seems but you have to have the appropriate phone which not everyone has yet.
Sorry Cranbrook Ave North Hull! And yes the Brighton Game will be one that I will do. I'm a bit lax this season on the away match front. So will have to get a few more in, to make up my quota. 5.30 kick off is a bummer, how apt is that!
