News - EE’s 4G coverage expands to nine more towns in England

[tedz10f]

oooooh makes me laugh.... ''hit your limit faster up to 4x quicker''

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amazing spot ha

[Brewster0101]

Anyone else think the EE shops look terrible? The outside logo's and banners look so dull in the high street.

[dcwt2010]

I think "4G" actually makes that easier. The real benefit of LTE won't be the raw speed (which as we all know with wireless technology is hardly ever anywhere near theoretical max anyway), it will be the consistency and reduction of blackspots/ dropouts.

Just because you *could* drain your allowance in 6 mins or whatever doesn't mean you should or would, just stick to normal phone habits and be sensible. Streaming iPlayer, torrents, big downloads etc should done on fixed line, it's hardly essential activity and people doing it on their phones suck up the lions share of bandwidth, slowing the rest of us down, pushing up operating costs and thus also pushing up bills and generally making the useful stuff harder to achieve.

I'd rather useful data services got priority, grabbing maps, internet, VoIP etc and streaming/torrents was banned on cellular networks. I think that's the intention of the 1GB caps - it stops greedy people running away with all the capacity but if you stick to sensible web browsing, maps and other such things then it's more than enough per month.

I've always thought that unlimited cellular data with fixed monthly price is a flawed model, some people do very well out of that whilst other users subsidise them. Low line rental and a small per-MB charge so you genuinely pay for what you use is a fairer system. Trouble is it makes revenue predictions harder for the operators and its a hard sell because people don't like to pay their fair share and want moon-on-a-stick unlimited data at gigabit speeds for £1.99 per millennium.

You are quite right but EE advertises 4G as being superfast and useful consuming a lot of data (they have Kevin Bacon harping on how you can stream HD movies to your phone etc). So why advertise about such data heavy activities when their tiny data allowances prohibit it?

I genuinely do think we should pay our fair share for data but EE really aren't helping themselves with the contradictory advertising.

[cameronlite]

Their data limits may well be crap, but the speed claims are proving true so far..My work phone is on EE LTE (with a 4gb/month limit) and wow it really is fast. I have just done a speed test - my iPhone 4 on EE 3G gets 6.42mb down and 2.2mb up, but on the LTE iPhone 5 I get 35mb down and 15.6mb up!

This is in north Manchester - its impressive really and a sign of whats to come when the pricing comes down to reasonable levels. Worth noting that my company has about 20 phones with EE and we get unlimited minues/texts and 4gb per handset for £25+Vat a month - so EE clearly can price this well, they just don't have to at the moment.

Dude... given that some speed tests do a number of file downloads and average the results - you might have just consumed a tonne of data.

People - bear in mind that watching a video over 3G or 4G uses the same amount of data - it's just faster on 4G (assuming same video quality).

If I had 4G, I certainly wouldn't suddenly up my data usage, I'd just spend less time waiting for pages to load.

[Brewster0101]

With today's announcement from Three on their 4G pricing and data tarrifs - EE and the other networks
really need to pull their socks up or just forget about it.

In case you've not read, Three will offer 4G at the same prices and packages are current 3G ones, all you need to worry about is the phone.