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UK users. What do you think of EE LTE plans

I'm surprised you guys haven't gone nuts.

Right now I'm on T-Mob SIMO, £21 a month for unlimited everything including data.

I've currently used 3.7gb this half-ish month I've been with them. So if I want 5gb, instead of £21, its £36 a month, which seems bonkers for a little extra speed in certain places.

It must work for other people, but its not working for me. Just doesn't add up.

Plus I have the added benefit of no set limit on T-Mob. As someone else has also said, all the 4G masts are carrying 3G too, with the latest top spec equipment, so I should see good speeds in the same locations anyway.
 
Talk about a balls up.

The one selling point for EE is the superfast download speeds. Superfast downloads are only really beneficial to people, who say, MAY ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD THINGS!

"You can download a full HD film on your iPhone 5 in less then 15 minutes only with 4GEE*


*Plan of at least £46 a month needed, else you will use up your download allowance midway through downloading the film"

They've also messed up their mobile broadband dongles, which could have been REALLY useful to people far away from phone exchanges, by capping that at 5GB for nearly £30 a month.

Madness.
 
Carl Bembridge said:
"You can download a full HD film on your iPhone 5 in less then 15 minutes only with 4GEE*


*Plan of at least £46 a month needed, else you will use up your download allowance midway through downloading the film"
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Did you miss this bit? http://ee.co.uk/film

Specifically where you can download one film from their store and the film download does NOT come out of your allowance.
 
Vundu said:
So what's the deal for new T-Mobile/Orange iphone 5 customers?
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You can move to 4GEE for free but you have to restart your contract.

I'm currently on £26 unlimited 30days rolling contract with T Mobile. Not sure if I want to move to their 3GB plan as I have to pay extra £5 /pm, give up the unlimited data and committing to a 12 months contract .....

Is that extra speed really worth it ???
 
The EE deals look terrible. iPhone, £46/m for 3gb, surely the minimum data allowance needed to take advantage of LTE - ouch!

Also, lol at the “access to BT Openzone”. I used to be on 02, those hotspots were universally awful. If you could actually connect, it was barely good enough to do even the most basic of browsing, and don't even think about any kind of streaming. Tbh, I have the same opinion of all urban wifi hotspots, they’re good for nothing bar slow basic browsing.

Three ftw. Not LTE, but plenty fast. I’m on monthly rolling with a unlocked 64gb 5, soooo happy to be free of contract tyranny. I'm faced with a choice..... sim only 12 month £41/m for 8gb LTE, or £25/m unlimited & tethering HSPA+with Three. Hmm, let me see.......
 
fat jez said:
Did you miss this bit? http://ee.co.uk/film

Specifically where you can download one film from their store and the film download does NOT come out of your allowance.
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Did notice that, it's not great for people who purchase of itunes or use netflix though. It's a bit shoddy business practice really, free data if you buy from them? Surprised that doesnt kick off the legal bods about anti-comeptition laws etc...
 
yegon said:
Three ftw. Not LTE, but plenty fast. I’m on monthly rolling with a unlocked 64gb 5, soooo happy to be free of contract tyranny. I'm faced with a choice..... sim only 12 month £41/m for 8gb LTE, or £25/m unlimited & tethering HSPA+with Three. Hmm, let me see.......
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Yeah. I'm not sure why everyone get so excited about iP5, having the LTE on iP5 is total waste of money. HSPA+ is fast enough (I'm getting 10mb down on Three). Carriers want you to move to LTE because it utilizes the spectrum better, and will make more money for them.

I have an Verizon 4G LTE iPad3, it makes more sense to have LTE on the iPad, because it consumes more data (HD videos and large jpegs can be rendered on the 10" retina display beautifully), and benefit more from a faster download speed.
 
Vundu said:
That's what I was wondering with just getting my iphone 5 on T-Mobile.
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found out via twitter we can't get in on sim only deals as we have subsidized phones so the more expensive tariffs are the only option.

so if your on iPhone 36 (Like me) to get same tariff on EE your looking at £5 extra a month
 
I am interested to see what speeds are like rather than the cost! My iPhone 5 on Three has never fallen below 10Mbps on speed tests. This is in contrast to Vodafone where I was lucky to get above 2Mbps so it's like night and day for me.

I wonder how many people will sign up to these plans, just so they can show off the 4G icon in their status bar, when all they do with their dismal 500MB of data is load Twitter and Facebook. :rolleyes:
 
mikey4020 said:
I am interested to see what speeds are like rather than the cost! My iPhone 5 on Three has never fallen below 10Mbps on speed tests. This is in contrast to Vodafone where I was lucky to get above 2Mbps so it's like night and day for me.
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With LTE, you can easily see a double in download speed and quadruple in upload speed (from my experience in the US). But do you really need all that speed on an iP5? Or are you just paying for the higher bandwidth, so the your data consumption can go up, and your carrier will be laughing all the way to the bank. :p
 
Just to clarify, if someone takes the 500MB deal, that's not 500MB of LTE, this limit includes all cellular data, correct?
 
dancarney said:
Just to clarify, if someone takes the 500MB deal, that's not 500MB of LTE, this limit includes all cellular data, correct?
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No ones knows, I noticed someone asked EE that on twitter, but like every other question asking for specific costs or bundles, it was ignored by the official @EE.
 
dancarney said:
Just to clarify, if someone takes the 500MB deal, that's not 500MB of LTE, this limit includes all cellular data, correct?
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I would imagine so, if they are going through the same APN. Americans LTE users are trying to avoid the throttling imposed by the carrier with the APN changer. LOL, sooner or later, all the loopholes are going to be closed down.
 
The one thing putting me off is not the prices but the issues our cousins across the pond are having with battery life due to let/4g use.

:D
 
Well I'm glad I moved from Vodafone to Three. The increase in 3G speed is more than substantial.

I managed a speedtest result of 16.5 Mbps down on the M62; managed to hold a uninterrupted FaceTime call for 20 mins.

I really don't think EE has anything of interest to me.
 
It doesn't even come out in my area, so not point in me changing over just now, but they prices are ridiculous.
 
yegon said:
The EE deals look terrible. iPhone, £46/m for 3gb, surely the minimum data allowance needed to take advantage of LTE - ouch!

Also, lol at the “access to BT Openzone”. I used to be on 02, those hotspots were universally awful. If you could actually connect, it was barely good enough to do even the most basic of browsing, and don't even think about any kind of streaming. Tbh, I have the same opinion of all urban wifi hotspots, they’re good for nothing bar slow basic browsing.

Three ftw. Not LTE, but plenty fast. I’m on monthly rolling with a unlocked 64gb 5, soooo happy to be free of contract tyranny. I'm faced with a choice..... sim only 12 month £41/m for 8gb LTE, or £25/m unlimited & tethering HSPA+with Three. Hmm, let me see.......
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Maybe you're confusing BT Fon hot spots with BT Open Zone hot spots. Here in London I agree the BT Fon ones out on the streets are very poor. However the BT Openzone ones in cafes like Cafe Nero and Starbucks are pretty good.

On a more general not I'm totally baffled why people are so surprised about the plans and tariffs. I think you all need to wake up and smell the coffee. At the moment EE has no competition regards 4G/LTE and therefore can charge what they want. I'm in no way trying to justify this but making a blatantly obvious observation which a lot of people here have failed to realise. Until several UK networks provide the service and there is competition in the market place we are going to see high prices and plans/tariffs which are not very good value.
 
Mr.C said:
At the moment EE has no competition regards 4G/LTE and therefore can charge what they want.
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I think this is the trend, as seen in all the LTE data plans from US carriers, unlimited voice, but no very steep data rate. Next year, when the major UK carriers enter the LTE market, they are also likely to adopt the same business model. :(
 
dchao said:
I think this is the trend, as seen in all the LTE data plans from US carriers, unlimited voice, but no very steep data rate. Next year, when the major UK carriers enter the LTE market, they are also likely to adopt the same business model. :(
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Maybe so but I wasn't referring so much to the data limits as much as the actual pricing. The tariffs may well come down once there is more competition. The other issue is the limited availability of 4G/LTE to certain cities. Once it's much more widely available and more people have access to it the prices may also fall or the actual included services may increase. There may also be more variety in plans with possibly ones with lower text and minute limits but higher data limits. Early adopters are always going to pay more then those who are prepared to wait.
 
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