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MSE News: Orange and T-Mobile customers to get faster mobile internet

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  • c-m
    c-m Posts: 770 Forumite
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    If you are a t-mobile customer, manually going onto the orange network for 3G/HSDPA, could be a way around t-mobile's speed caps. I understand that Orange don't have the same capping procedures so might not be able to implement T-mobiles arbitary 0.35/1/2Mbps caps.
  • Gambler
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    c-m wrote: »
    If you are a t-mobile customer, manually going onto the orange network for 3G/HSDPA, could be a way around t-mobile's speed caps.

    How do you do this please?
  • dduk
    dduk Posts: 150 Forumite
    edited 11 October 2011 at 5:54PM
    Gambler wrote: »
    How do you do this please?

    Once they switch on 3G roaming, scan for networks in your phone and select T-Mobile Orange.
  • 50Twuncle
    50Twuncle Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    How fast is a 3g connection supposed to be ?
    I connect to Tmobile 3g and am convinced that this is less than 200Kbs .....
  • c-m
    c-m Posts: 770 Forumite
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    3G is 0.35Mbps. What most people mean by 3G is actually 3.5G (HSDPA) speeds can reach over 14Mbps
  • Toe-Jam
    Toe-Jam Posts: 1,554 Forumite
    c-m wrote: »
    3G is 0.35Mbps. What most people mean by 3G is actually 3.5G (HSDPA) speeds can reach over 14Mbps

    Orange has the slowest 3g of all the networks. Its absolutely terrible. Maybe it will speed up a bit when they are able to offload customers to the Tmobile infrastructure.
  • NFH
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    Toe-Jam wrote: »
    Orange has the slowest 3g of all the networks. Its absolutely terrible. Maybe it will speed up a bit when they are able to offload customers to the Tmobile infrastructure.
    It is indeed slow. As well as offloading customers to T-Mobile, they need to offload customers to BT Openzone. Central London is saturated with BT Openzone premium hotspots, but Orange iPhones don't automatically switch over to them because of a long-term fault, which is causing unnecessary additional network congestion in London.
  • Gambler
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    Gambler wrote: »
    I can't pick up tmobile at work so it switches to a very good orange signal for calls and texts. Internet is painfully slow so hopefully I will benefit from this change.

    Had a nice surprise when I got to work this morning. I can now pick up orange 3g on my tmobile phone. Speeds of 1MB compared to the usual 40kbps !!:T
  • luci
    luci Posts: 5,960 Forumite
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    How can you check the speeds on an Android phone?
  • chrispafc
    chrispafc Posts: 82 Forumite
    T-Mobile speed cap? It didn't say that in the contract.
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