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Originally Posted by Superblade7
Funny you should say that as ironically the O2 service getting worse in my area coincided with their 4G launch but obviously on the numerous times I've complained about poor service, there is no connection between the two! Hmm!  |
Funny the number of people who do not understand how things work and jump immediately to this false and illogical conclusion that is completely unsupported by facts.
Hundreds of thousands of tests by multiple independent investigators have found data speeds to have increased by 2x-3x on average across all users,
including all existing 3G customers.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
I'm hoping that 4G will resolve most of that, as each provider got a nice chunk of 800Mhz spectrum which should hopefully mean much better coverage.
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4G will provide much better coverage - yes. However, not all providers got a "nice chunk" of 800Mhz. Only two providers did - and those two providers already hold all the 900Mhz as well, giving them a massive advantage they've so far made little of.
The other two operators (3 and EE) actually have too little 800Mhz to run an effective network on, hence why neither of them have actually used their 800 yet. It will mostly be restricted to VoLTE purposes as it lacks the bandwidth for anything else, at least until the 700Mhz auction ends. The average speeds on 800Mhz alone will be lower than 3G for both those networks, but will carry a big range advantage over 2100Mhz 3G.