Just went into carphone warehouse at the bon accord centre in aberdeen. Attempted to pre-order an 32gb iphone to then be told that they are only getting 16gb models on friday and don't know when to expect the 32 or 64 sizes. But will phone me when they have them in stock. May have to phone carphone warehouse and get them to deliver one to me, which may come quicker than waiting for them to get some stock.
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How long has anyone's nano sim taken to arrive by post from Three? I ordered mine on Monday evening and it quoted delivery for today (Wednesday).
Thought it was a bit optimistic considering how hectic things are. I'm just hoping it arrives before Friday to set it up before the chaos that is launch day!
Ordered a Three sim on Monday afternoon and it arrived on Tuesday morning.
Which store? I was thinking of arriving at a similar time for the Regent's street store.
Based on the 4S launch, any one have idea how many people to expect in the queue already at that time?
O2
think im just going to stick with O2 until my contract ends, and then think about switching to LTE enabled network
think im just going to stick with O2 until my contract ends, and then think about switching to LTE enabled network
I hope it works well, but great signal does not mean great performance unfortunately..
Their network is struggling now due to the mass amounts of all you can eat dater users...
Hmm, I'm not convinced about point 4, unless the method of authentication for the radio network is different between 3G and LTE. I'd have said it was down the bearer services provisioned on the HLR, but I could well be very wrong. But that's not to say EE aren't adopting that approach just to get people moving over, rather than asking to have LTE added to their existing Orange/T-Mobile SIM cards.
Where are you getting that from? I've found Three to offer more consistent high speed compared to T-Mobile or Orange who myself and the wife were on 6 months ago.
You have no evidence of that or of high data usage
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It's more a case of definitely know.
The iPhone 5 only supports one frequency that can be used in Europe (1800MHz) and Vodafone doesn't have enough of it to use for LTE.
And 3 who bought ...erm something... from Orange to allow them to use the same 1800mhz band that EE will use.
Wrong, you can use 2100MHz as well, subject to spectrum being re-licensed. This is what O2 are pushing for.
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3 bought 30MHz of spectrum from EE in 2x15MHz chunks.
Not with me. I get better speeds up and down on Three than i did with giffgaff (run off o2's network) and a better signal.
You can, but I don't see that happening on a large scale.
Re-using any existing spectrum has serious downsides.
EE can only get away with it because they have a huge amount of bandwidth from the Orange/T-Mobile merger (even after you take out the amount that Three are buying from them). It's still not all sunshine and rainbows for them though; they're going to have to reduce 2G coverage in some areas (a process that's already started).
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A few questions
1. I've had my iPhone 4 since July 2010, so it's gone through iOS 4, 5 and today I'll upgrade it to 6. When I get the iPhone 5, I am undecided on whether to use the iCloud back up of my 4 or set it up as a brand new phone... Are there any disadvantages of using the back up from my iPhone 4?
2. Does anyone have a coverage map for HSPA+ on Orange? And what are the likely speeds I'd be getting. Assuming they have a HSPA+ network rolled out that is, I have heard that they do...
1. I've had my iPhone 4 since July 2010, so it's gone through iOS 4, 5 and today I'll upgrade it to 6. When I get the iPhone 5, I am undecided on whether to use the iCloud back up of my 4 or set it up as a brand new phone... Are there any disadvantages of using the back up from my iPhone 4?
2. Does anyone have a coverage map for HSPA+ on Orange? And what are the likely speeds I'd be getting. Assuming they have a HSPA+ network rolled out that is, I have heard that they do...
From being a customer for the last 3 years and having a number of devices on contract with them. Using throughout the country.
Over the last few months they have gotten worse. They were AMAZING earlier in the year and prior to that, but over time this year they have gotten worse.
They have confirmed this as well regarding capacity issues, depends who you speak too thoug as most deny it point blank.
This is basically down to offering even PAYG customers unlimited data and also they have the free data service (Samba mobile) hammering their network .
All of this takes its toll. Just got off the phone to three again this morning and they have confirmed that there are NO plans to apply any upgrades to masts in the near future either, which is VERY worrying in my mind.
but by the time they can use it the next phone will be out but will still work on the 5 just will be a while.
LTE is a great feature but sadly won't get it. Not like i use my own 3G that much either though to be honest. The other features will be great for those of us on vodafone.
I thought O2 and Voda would be going together to buy 800mhz and 2600mhz in the 4G auction next year?
I would DEFINITELY recommend a backup/ restore onto new phone using iTunes locally.
Even if you have chosen iCloud as the backup mechanism you can still force a local backup by right-clicking your phone in the iTunes sidebar and clicking 'Backup'. Then restore your new phone when prompted on initial setup.
Apologies I missed a key word there.....SUSPECT.
it's just funny how its started getting worse as more are offered all you can eat data IMO...
Can you order it online or do you have to call!!! I just remember I need to order mine!!
I ordered it online, got their £12.90 1 month rolling contract. I went through the topcashback website too, so I should be getting around £25 cash back eventually