Smartphone INTERNET SPEEDs - o2 Vs Tmobile?

buscape

jb66 wrote: »

Virgin are the worst, speeds capped at 1.8

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Im_just_careful

The splendidly named "GooliesOfFire" has the measured answer for 3G

I've a perception that around London, T-Mobile has the edge over O2 in use on 3G.

This may be because of the number of users on each network.

In a rural location, with no 3G I found O2 better as they had "EDGE" which gave around 100kb/s whereas in the same location T-Mobile only had "GPRS" and did about 30kb/s.

digp

whole things a bit of a joke isnt it

gemmaking

GooliesOfFire wrote: »

Had both. All depends on your reception in your area.

I used to be with T-Mobile for many years. When I get HSDPA it's quick, but in my area I was mainly getting only 3G. I'm with giffgaff now (O2 network) and I get HSDPA everywhere in my area. But you are more likely to get a better reception from T-Mobile (combined with Orange now) rather than from O2.

EDIT:
I did test my giffgaff, T-Mobile and Virgin Media broadband a while ago.

From top to bottom...
- Virgin Media broadband via wifi.. capped speeds to 10Mb/1Mb
- T-Mobile at HSDPA... badly capped upload speed. No wonder it feels slow.
- giffgaff aka O2.. not capped upload.. it works great.. upload speed higher than VM O.O

So what was faster in your case, t-mobile? or o2?

Kernel_Sanders

Im_just_careful wrote: »

.... T-Mobile only had "GPRS" and did about 30kb/s.

How can GPRS be almost half the old dial-up maximum?

GooliesOfFire

gemmaking wrote: »

So what was faster in your case, t-mobile? or o2?

In my case O2 is better in my area.. but T-Mobile has better coverage than O2 in the UK so probably would be a better choice for most. The only worrying thing is low upload speeds with T-Mobile.. but I cannot tell whether it's just a local issue or something that applies to the whole network

buscape

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

How can GPRS be almost half the old dial-up maximum?

GPRS speeds go up to 80kbps, so 30kbps sounds perfectly plausible to me.