New phone/contract help please...is 4G worth the extra?

[Benn]

Depends where you are though, I'm in a well developed* area of Bristol but only get 2-3mbps landline net connection which is the best I'll get here

* in terms of housing and whatnot, but not internet connection it seems

Similar here, broadband is at best 4meg but usually sitting around 2.5meg. Bt keep a rolling 3 month promise for infinity it's been 3months away for nearly 2 years grrr.

Really? That's sh*te.

Jack i thought Bristol would get better. I'm between Pompey and Southampton.. But get better speeds than both cities..

[phazer]

That's a bloody good deal, 4G wise, i thought it was still on the "major" cities that where getting it at the mo..

Seems that EE think that Derby *is* a major city, it's one of the first places to get full 4G. It's about as major as a small town but there you go, I don't mind, means decent mobile internet when we go shopping

[Benn]

See i was told by them that it was in like 5 cities.. Till next year.

[phazer]

Derby was used for some testing too. I think it must be due to the infrastructure in place - Derby has one of the large network 'super' junctions for the telecoms industry.

Anyway, more info http://explore.ee.co.uk/our-company/...ed-on-by-march

[Stuart]

Really? That's sh*te.

Jack i thought Bristol would get better. I'm between Pompey and Southampton.. But get better speeds than both cities..

It's no surprise really. Half the town has virgin cable, but they won't run it up to where I am, and that's a few miles from the exchange. Might have to get a line of sight microwave link like we have at work

[Jack]

City centre is Ok, but Sadley Broke where I live... well they ran out of money when they got halfway through. So all the houses round the edge (older stuff) is on the Filton exchange with good comms, where as the inner bits (newer stuff) is on the crappy Almondsbury exchange where yoghurt pots and string is 'modern tech'

Here I get about 2-3mpbs. The house I'm looking at renting, literally 5 mins down the road, can have a 100mpbs Virgin fibre connection

Edd, before EE came along and screwed up my connection speed, I was getting faster connection on my phone than on my landline!

[Benn]

Well i'm just shocked.

[Mazz]

Not sure if i posted what I decided on in the end? Either way, I spied a link in HUKD about the One X+ and looked around, I managed to find it on tmobile/ee (which is what I wanted as the signal at work is better than the others) for about the same price, but with no phone charge.

http://www.mobilephonecontractsuk.or...HTC_One_X_Plus

I had the One X+ on EE via afforablemobiles. 300min, ul text & 750mb data for £26pm with £40 cash back over the period of the contract. Ordered on the 26th Dec, and it arrived on the 27th!

[Benn]

Got mine today, came home to find it on my desk. Excited isn't the word.... It's so nice! And really light even compared to my old phone. Need to order a cover for it. Free £80 headphones too...

[Stuart]

The back covers for the oneX(+) are really really poor And the official ones look horrid.
I've giving up trying to find one.