Mobile data is getting slower, faster

Re: US Data Rates seemed rubbish

Not really a fair way to measure. It's quite likely that the deal which 3 has with roaming partners allows them to throttle your traffic in order to privilege their own users. It could, of course, simply be that the cells you were in were swamped with traffic: doesn't take many people watching or uploading video to do this. LTE will over time ameliorate this as the all IP infrastructure should make it easier to handover to local friendly wifi spots in places like cities where it can be difficult to install more aerials.

Otherwise it would seem that T-Mobile's attempts to influence user behaviour (all you can eat video but at lower resolution) might be paying off. No doubt they'll be excitedly pointing to this report.

Re: US Data Rates seemed rubbish

It's probably more of a Three issue, to be honest.

The whole Feel at Home thing is much better on paper than in real life. Every time I used it it (Portugal, Austria, Spain) it has been SO slow (irrespective of signal strength) as to being virtually unuseable.

There's still nothing like forking out for a native SIM if you're travelling to the same country for more than, say, a week or so...

Re: US Data Rates seemed rubbish

"Feet at home" is tunnelled back to the UK and capped. Next time go in a t-mobile store and ask for the tourist sim, $30 for 3 weeks and experience the true speed of LTE it is quite astonishing compared to the UK.

Re: India LTE Coverage

"Geographic or potential user coverage?"

And the same question for the US. The article claims Verizon has coverage over 95%, but given the huge tracts of nothing in parts of the US I really doubt that can be geographic. Getting that kind of coverage in a small, densely populated place like the UK seems to be tricky (or at least expensive) enough.