3s 4g rollout is painfully long and will not reach you anywhere near December. Just keep that in mind.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sat 31-Aug-13 17:29:41)

This is true. However a decent ultrafast phone would do until then. I want a phone with a replaceable battery I always buy them with them built in which means they are knackered in 6-12 months.

My iPhone battery lasts just long enough to get me from wall plug to wall plug, with the odd stop off in between.

Ill see where I am then. Still got the cash to save now even a 3 3GB ebay sim would give me 5mbps up so I don't have to stay with EE

Yep if your usage is low why the hell pay for an expensive VM connection. I'm heavy on Netflix, we have it on the TV now so I need my home broadband really.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

This is true. However a decent ultrafast phone would do until then. I want a phone with a replaceable battery I always buy them with them built in which means they are knackered in 6-12 months.

Lucky - testing with my Three PAYG SIM in my new 42mbps capable "mobile wifi" box - I get at best 10meg download and its VERY variable from 6 to 10, in about 3 locations (home, friends, and inbetween) and the best upload I saw was 3 meg, most of the time it was 1.5meg. Not been to EE store yet, will try next week.

The site could have been connected via microwave using older equipment which may have been replaced. A few LTE masts are put in place before this upgrade.
More backhaul (assuming it was always hard wired)
Or it finally got hard wired

Or whoever has been hammering it has finally gone away for a while.

Few possibilities

I am in cwmbran here is a speed test using alcatel y800 payg 4g mobile broadband

ee 4g speedtest

Edited by LA7 (Mon 02-Sep-13 16:55:32)