The article below provides an interesting account of one testers experience with the experimental LTE deployed in Central London presently.

Enjoy.....http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...?newsfeed=true

"Trefor Davies is chief technology officer of Timico, and one of the people who last year pushed the idea that the UK needed to begin shifting over to IPv6. He's also had the opportunity to try out O2's 4G system around London"

Very good data speeds, but yesterday you said:



The key will be the allowances.

With 97Mbps shown possible, I wonder what the maximum cost per minute this is at the soon to be 'capped roaming rate' of 50p per MB?

Obviously a lot less than the £8 per MB that Orange used to charge abroad.

The caps and allowances will have to be reviewed when this type of technology goes mainstream. That said for mobile handsets 2-3 Mbs can deliver good streaming performance so the improved data rates may be an answer to deliver to more data to more customers at reduced cost.

It remains to be seen if this technology will compete directly with fixed line services, if it does then the allowances will need to be similar to what is offered by those.

Price will be the key factor as ever but I predict the cost to customers will fall rapidly because the mob ops will want a fast return on investment and it makes sense for them to move users to lower cost per MB delivery systems. That said many customers won't notice much difference in terms of their everyday usage so the same will probably happen as did with 3G, which could not generate much of a premium when it was launched as there was no significant advantage using it before smartphones became available.

If they make LTE affordable at say £20 to £30 a month with at least 300GB it would be worth dumping my Sky broadband and line or am I dreaming?

We shall have to wait and see what the performance is when it's rolled out and used but its possible in theory. However fixed line for now is the proven option.

You're dreaming. Although at the moment three and tmobile do technically have unlimited data plans which mean you could use over 300gb on their Hspa+ 42Mbps network.

Good speed test results but I doubt the average consumer will see over 60mbps Max on LTE. Don't get me wrong that's an awesome speed but the 97mbps is a bit misleading. With LTE comes increased capacity so we'll see data plans increase.

You are dreaming

Even if it were 30mb it would be faster than my line now.
Hopefully one day we can dump the land line.