Captain_Rosco
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Coming soon to a city near you ???
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19556014
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Toby
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Its a start but they are crafty bastards as my understanding is that to begin with TMo and Orange (being under the Everything Everywhere umbrella) wont get it, it will only be sold from EE (a company with the same name as the umbrella comapny). Clever Marketing.
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csweatherston
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Registered: 16th Jan 06
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Was just about to ask this.
So it would require a new contract through EE, even if your an existing tmo or orange customer?
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Toby
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thats my understanding on the situation atleast to begin with which i think will be the case until its well estahblished or fully rolled out
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John
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I want to see the actual coverage maps. One mast in the middle of a city is a bit useless.
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Robbo
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should be on ofcoms website john
Toby - youre right and youre wrong, you do take out a contratc with "EE" but thats fairly irrelevant, new Orange customers also take out a contract with Everything Everywhere Ltd in the same way that "EE" customers will. If youre an Orange or TMo customer and are eligible for an upgrade then you can move to EE on LTE/4G, otherwise you would have to keep your existing cotnract and take out a new one
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Robbo
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As a side point, EE are ridiculously allowing Virgin Media to sell LTE also  so another avenue should you not want to go with EE
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
As a side point, EE are ridiculously allowing Virgin Media to sell LTE also so another avenue should you not want to go with EE
VM have been doing LTE femtocell trials (using Picochip and Airspan gear) for a while, using their 'fibre' as the backhaul. Although it's been in the 2600 band which has sparked rumours of them creating their own LTE network and will use EE for the 2G/3G fallback.
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Robbo
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would be an expesnive way to do thigns but in fairness they have a few million customers - would not be surprised to see them try to buy 3 if that was the case
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AlunJ
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Wonder if a 4g dongle would be better than my 1.5mbps adsl, never thought 3g was that good.
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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VM aren't and won't be doing their own LTE network, they don't have that sort of spare money to invest in a network of their own, they've always been a MVNO and will stay that way for a long time coming.
Samsung Galaxy S3 and also the iPhone once it comes - 50% discount on any fees and tariffs 
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John
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The normal S3 isn't LTE is it, do you not need a specific LTE version?
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
VM aren't and won't be doing their own LTE network, they don't have that sort of spare money to invest in a network of their own, they've always been a MVNO and will stay that way for a long time coming.
They're certainly not going to be buying Three or creating a complete network (GSM + Data) from scratch. But they've already got the infrastructure in the big cities and towns for LTE, just requires femtocells (the Airspan gear they've been using is pretty small and could easily be strapped to lampposts etc) on the end of their 'fibre' which is exactly what they've been trialling.
If it was to help improve coverage in rural areas, then it'd make more sense to be doing these trials in the 1800 band to coincide with EE's LTE network but instead they're using 2600 which would suggest they testing short distance high bandwidth LTE ie: something that would be useful in creating a LTE network where your infrastructure is.
Assuming you work for them though?
[Edited on 13-09-2012 by Dom]
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noshua
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They've already got "access points" strapped to lamp posts and then running the bandwidth over their own network, quite interesting. Likewise they run a lot of the phone calls over their network to save paying a percentage to BT.
They could swap from EE to O2, Voda or 3 (doubt it as they don't have a 2g network?), as there's massive changes in their backend hardware and software being proposed.
I work for VM yeah, been in talks/meetings with senior staff from most departments this week!
EDIT: I assumed the S3 was LTE, that's a bit of a shame.
[Edited on 14-09-2012 by noshua]
[Edited on 14-09-2012 by noshua]
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
The normal S3 isn't LTE is it, do you not need a specific LTE version?
There's an LTE version of S3, hence EE having it as one of their launch phones.
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Mertin
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I think they should maybe concentrate on having 3G all over the Uk before going and releasing 4G
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