Thread: is LTE (4G) worth it?
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Old 09-05-2013, 02:30   #15
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Re: is LTE (4G) worth it?
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Originally Posted by Ben B View Post
You have two broadband connections according to your services listed on your profile and one of them is a 100mb connection, why would you need to tether and use all that data? For general web browsing and streaming music on Deezer (included in my subscription) my data limit is fine. If I wanted to watch films on the EE film store I could take advantage of that as that is currently unlimited usage. If I needed unlimited usage I could have gone with Virgin Mobile that uses the EE network which has way better coverage than 3, lucky to get 1 bar with them round here.
Virgin Mobile no longer offer tethering with their plans I believe, or there is some kind of limit I think 2.5GB per month.

As for coverage, EE & 3 share majority of their masts with each other see http://www.mbnl.co.uk/about.php so its not likely that you'd go to an area and find EE's coverage better than Three or Three better than EE unless you was connecting to EE using 2G.

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Originally Posted by Qtx View Post
Due the dara limits on 4G I stuck with 3G and the non-LTE galaxy s3 as the 4g part of it drained batteries quicker.

So glad I have it as when walking around town witb headphones on I can stream music channels/my Googrecently mysic and use 500mb on those days as well as watching tv news channels on the way home.

Having moved houss recently there is still no broadband here so I have been tethering for browsing and downloading. Pages start to load instantly so problemz there. Downloaded 35gb of stuff in the last few days through it and was getting 1.6mb/s. Not too sbabby althouhh speed tests ard giong fasted

Figured my contract would run out around the galaxy s5 gets releassd so the other providers will have betted data deals to go with 4g. Will probably stick with Three though, no complaints.
Three already announced they will not charge anyone extra to get 4G, and they're going to be the only network (out of the big 4) to offer unlimited 4G, so if I was you i'd stick with them.

Also I cant fault their Ultrafast network, was getting 3.1MB/s yesterday
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