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LTE Tested in London (Guardian Report)
wavejockglw
16-04-2012
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"
Thine Wonk
16-04-2012
Originally Posted by wavejockglw:
“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:


Originally Posted by wavejockglw:
“3.8Mbs will be more than most mobile users will need for all their apps and video streaming using YouTube etc.

Only a very minute number of speed testers will be bothered as most will simply use the service and have no idea about data rates.

Most customers are concerned with what works well rather than statistics.”

The key will be the allowances.

Quote:
“Data allowances: the high-speed elephant in the room

The amount of data you can download in a very small amount of time is going to change the game. In the US, owners of the new 4G-enabled iPad have already discovered they can burn through a few gigabytes' monthly allowance in a couple of hours. (Note: link may require subscription.) In upgrading the dongle firmware, for example I used 50MB in around a minute. If you consider that until recently a typical "fair use" policy for an "unlimited" data package was 500MB in a month, then you can see that the model is going to have to change. Mobile operators are going to have to increase their backhaul capacity by some orders of magnitude.”

alanwarwic
16-04-2012
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.
wavejockglw
16-04-2012
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.
fmradiotuner1
16-04-2012
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?
wavejockglw
16-04-2012
Originally Posted by fmradiotuner1:
“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.
jabbamk1
16-04-2012
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.
TheBigM
16-04-2012
Originally Posted by fmradiotuner1:
“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?”

You are dreaming
fmradiotuner1
16-04-2012
Even if it were 30mb it would be faster than my line now.
Hopefully one day we can dump the land line.
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