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.”