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

c-m

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

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

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

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

3G is 0.35Mbps. What most people mean by 3G is actually 3.5G (HSDPA) speeds can reach over 14Mbps

Toe-Jam

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

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

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

How can you check the speeds on an Android phone?

chrispafc

T-Mobile speed cap? It didn't say that in the contract.