Re: The iPhone thread
 

When you receive your iPhone 5 try calling your provider to enquire if it will work with 4G you may be in for an unpleasant surprise.

Re: The iPhone thread
 

4gs a gimmick, they do t give us full 3G speed as it is

Re: The iPhone thread
 

Who doesn't? I get fantastic 3G/HSDPA+ speeds from my phone and my Mobile BB providers.

Its not a gimmic, depending on where you are 4G can give up to 100Mb speeds.

Re: The iPhone thread
 

virgin cap at 1.8meg as confirmed by ceo office

Re: The iPhone thread
 

Virgin mobile cap download at 1.8meg?

When?

Re: The iPhone thread
 

All the time, it's crap

Re: The iPhone thread
 

It's currently going at 4.7 on my phone. But only as I'm not getting all that good a signal at the moment - its usually faster.

Re: The iPhone thread
 

Link?

Re: The iPhone thread
 

i dont have a link as it was an email from ceo office

---------- Post added at 15:40 ---------- Previous post was at 15:36 ----------

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...e/td-p/1463748

Re: The iPhone thread
 

My S3 is deffo running faster than 1.8Mb. Especially since the H+ started last year.

Re: The iPhone thread
 

I doubt it would be much of a surprise.

The fact that the iPhone 5's "4G" (LTE) will only work in the UK with EE (& eventually Three, in a year) has been very widely publicised.


If only a certain network had not wasted so much time taking legal action against Ofcom to delay the 4G auction, the UK may have actually had 4G by now, and Apple would have given us an iPhone that used well developed bands...

Re: The iPhone thread
 

I still can't get over 1.8, if it wasn't for a staff deal I'd be away from virgin

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People expect it to work on 4G and many will be shocked that it will not.

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I would have thought, with 4G being so new (and still unadvertised by any UK service provider, including EE, unless i've missed something very recent), that anyone considering using a 4G service would have taken the trouble to check its availability, and would therefore know that there isn't any.

Re: The iPhone thread
 

Indeed.

I doubt that very many people would be "surprised" or "shocked" about 4G on the iPhone 5.

As mentioned earlier, it has been *widely* reported as only having 4G LTE compatibility with EE in the UK. It's not just the tech sites that have had stories on this, even the BBC and other mainstream media have done so too.

Also, O2, Vodafone, and Three have made no mention of the iPhone 5 being 4G or LTE compatible. They simply mention e.g. "super-fast wireless" and HSPA+ etc.

T-Mobile, Orange, and EE have advertised the iPhone 5 as being 4G LTE compatible, and specifically said that it would require 4G coverage with EE, and a 4G tariff with EE, once EE launches later in the year.