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John

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23rd Oct 12 at 07:48

£36 a month for 500MB of data. That's completely ludicrous.

WTF is the point in having a data plan that you could use up within 2 minutes?

Oh look, I have this 4G on my phone, let's see a speed test, oops, used my allowance

If the mobile networks could actually get a decent infrastructure with cheap bandwidth in place image how much business they could steal from BT. Nobody needs a landline anymore, if the country was blanketed a large proportion of people would just use 4G.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/22/ee-details-uk-4g-pricing/

AndyKent

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23rd Oct 12 at 07:55

They've lost the plot surely.

They need to use the time period to their advantage getting into as many peoples hands as they can.

Who exactly do they think is going to take out a £36/mo contract (which in itself isn't cheap) and still pay getting on for £200 for a phone?

And what small business is going to stay within an 8GB monthly allowance?

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 07:57

if i were to move to 4g but continued browsing as i normally do on 3g surely i wouldnt use any more data, it would just open pages quicker?

AndyKent

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23rd Oct 12 at 07:58

If stuff loaded quicker you'd be more likely to stream stuff though (youtube etc.) thats the point.

John

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23rd Oct 12 at 07:59

It won't open pages any quicker in reality.

4G is there so people can consume data faster, which means using more of it.

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:00

:lol

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:10

quote:
Originally posted by John
It won't open pages any quicker in reality.

4G is there so people can consume data faster, which means using more of it.

So it uses data quicker, but nothing happens any faster...?

John

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:14

That's not what I said.

Loading a standard website you probably won't notice the difference, Something like streaming video you will be able to do quicker, or stream higher quality etc.

A webpage like CS is a relatively fixed size, the funny pics and gifs thread might load quicker, it also might not because it doesn't saturate a slower connection anyway.

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:17

My 3G isn't as fast as when I'm on wifi, and my home wifi isn't as fast as at Uni. 4g is supposedly faster than all of them so I'm sure I'd notice faster browsing on 4g than on 3G and that's all some people want.

John

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:18

You can pay £36 a month for 500MB then, they obviously have a market.

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:24

Is that on top of line rental?

John

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:27

No, that's the whole monthly contract price with a phone.

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:27

How many minutes and texts?

John

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:29

Click on the link and see all the packages.

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:31

Can't see anything about minutes or texts

John

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:32

It's in the heading for the article.

Unlimited minutes and texts.

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:34

That's not too bad then really. Seem ok tariffs but the phones are a little pricey. New tech though isn't it, I remember paying by the minute for dial up, that probably worked out more expensive

Dom

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23rd Oct 12 at 08:53

Those prices are pretty ridiculous but then i think they were always going to be with EE being the first to market. Give it a few years when other networks have joined the race and competition should lower the prices (a little).

[Edited on 23-10-2012 by Dom]

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 10:44

its actually only a fiver a month more than 3g, its £36/month and £109 upfront for a 16gb iphone 5 with 1gb of 3g
£5 extra for 4g seems reasonable to me

A2H GO

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23rd Oct 12 at 11:07

^^ Yes but thats overpriced too.

Madness I can get free unlimited broadband for a year at home but expected to pay £36 a month for 500mb of data to have it outside my house.

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 11:21

yeah prices will come down but wireless is more expensive to maintain than wired internet

John

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23rd Oct 12 at 11:25

Although expensive, the price is irrelevant for me, it's the 500mb of data, You could literally use it in 2 minutes.

It's only wireless until it gets back to a distribution point that uses cables.

A2H GO

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23rd Oct 12 at 11:29

Agreed. I'd hesitantly pay £20pm max to have unlimited 4G data(with the same mins/texts I get for £10), when I can get it everywhere.

To be expected to pay £36 for 500mb mental. That said, the amount of people who don't know how much 500mb of data is, is just as bad.

LeeM

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23rd Oct 12 at 11:51

quote:
Originally posted by John
Although expensive, the price is irrelevant for me, it's the 500mb of data, You could literally use it in 2 minutes.

It's only wireless until it gets back to a distribution point that uses cables.

igoring that and compare to the equivalent orange tarriff, ie both 1gb usage and £36/41.
you could use 1 gb on 3g in a day if you wanted to. if youre streaming a video on 3g or 4g youre downloading the same amount of data, its the same video.
people who get by on 1gb of data a month, ie most of us, may be happy to pay an extra fiver to have faster browsing speeds.
although i understand you could download big files very quickly and use up all of your 1gb in a few minutes thats not what people use their phones for.

A2H GO

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23rd Oct 12 at 12:01

If you're just browsing web pages there's no point paying anything at all extra for 4G. No point paying an extra £5pm to have webpages load a millisecond faster.

4G comes into it's own when you want to do stuff you wouldn't do on 3G and all that stuff requires lots of data.

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