O2 looses legal torpedo at Everything Everywhere 4G monopoly Mobile phone operator O2 will appeal against Ofcom's decision to allow a rival firm to launch superfast broadband services later this year using its existing network capabilities, according to media reports. O2 has written to the telecoms regulator to announce its intention to appeal Ofcom's decision to the Competition Appeals …
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I've had a great HSDPA connection (3) for around a year now. I even had little trouble streaming from Spotify when I'm driving down the M1 & M6 in my car from Birmingham to Leeds and from Birmingham to the Lake District.
Sorry to hear about your troubles, but I've got good 3.5G experiences in many places all over.
Dear O2
Stop faffing with new fancy toys that whilst great on paper will be crap if/when you get around to sorting it out
Instead why dont you consider making a viable 3G network, you know, one that actually works in most of the country. you are supposed to be one of the biggest operators in the UK, well act like it and sort yourselves out!
We are going to see a lot of talk now about how deplorable / wonderful the situation of the Customer is going to be now, with the launch of this fabulous 3.5G.
It's so f... nice they all suddenly care so f... much about me, the Customer, that I get a fair choice to select who's gonna get to suck my wallet dry with their 3.5G, 5GB monthly cap, 70 squid p.m. lightning fast*, widespread**, 21st century***, all-embracing**** shite. There's nothing in the world I want more, but to watch ad-popups across a shitty youtube vid on a 3.5 inch screen, or a 7 inch tablet screen.
wrong, tablet screen + a 100 squid usb dongle, dongling. Unless you are an A-fan ;)
better then USA calling HSPA+ fake 4G when its only little Bit faster then HSDPA (Real world use as all the UMTS or HSDPA traffic messes with the HSPA+ signal so ends up most of the time only been 0.5-3MB faster then HSPA+)
4G (LTE or defunt Wimax) is Generation not Speed (even thought the mobile networks in the USA have bulled the ITU into calling it speed not Tech Generation jump)
I hope so, they are turning loose, i.e. unleashing, a weapon. Nothing wrong with that as a headline.
Bad news for the public, though: perhaps O2 could try thinking about how to deliver a better service, rather than 'competing' in court? Maybe pool resources with EE to give all their customers a better network, or get on with preparations for delivering their own LTE service once the spectrum is freed up (beefing up the backhaul, having the power and tower capacity for the new equipment...) - rather than lawyering up to make sure "if we can't serve customers yet, we'll make sure nobody else can either".
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Interesting analysis.
It certainly sounds like legal wrangling between the companies has done a lot of harm in pushing the auction back further and further.
Would have been neat if they could have been made to hand over that spectrum they had to flog now. Then it could have been less of a monopoly with 3 being able to do 4G too.
We all should have had 4G earlier.
So the network that has the worst 3G coverage, and has already been allowed to refarm it's old 900Mhz band for 3G use is now complaining that a network that has invested more in 3G coverage and has already built much of the infrastructure for 4G is taking a lead?
There was nothing to stop o2 from requesting the license for their own spectrum to be varied - their only motivation is motivated by the desire to slow down or stop their customers seeing just how far behind the rest o2 actually are.
They need to stop whinging and invest in closing the gap between their 84% 3G coverage and the 98/99% 3G coverage of Three / EE.
i found O2 around whrer i am they been deploying loads of new 3G masts (guess its Due to the 3G900 as 3G it self does not like Overlapping masts unlike 2G networks but as O2 now have 2 3g Bands now they can fill in the gaps with an 900mast and it not interfere with the 1800masts that are close by)
as orange and T-mobile have mast sharing now my orange phone now works in 2 places it never worked before (never really had an issue with Orange coverage for the most part)
really depends where you live (3/T-mobile/NBNL masts 3G 99% coverage is outdoors and in Greenbelt land only, gets very random lucky if the Phone will be still on its own network once you get indoors most likely be roaming on Orange 2g network, i found my t-mobile phone most of the time on Oranges 3g network or Drop to 2g if it supports it {3uk no 2g, uses 2g Orange roaming but its Very unreliable})
Why doesn't OFCOM let all mobile companies use there bandwith for whatever service they want to, be it TACS/ETACS/2G/3G/3.5G/4G.
Then limit the length of all mobile phone contracts to a maximum of 1 month, for those who want handsets with contracts, the carriers can still provide them with some from of credit agreement.
This way it will promote competition with carriers having to offer the best service at the best price to retain customers.
again depends where you are O2 have some Edge masts on the newer ones (but personally i find its Unreliable EDGE compared to GPRS from my own use yes its faster but its only 2-3x faster then GPRS when it Works)
i have Never seen EDGE on Orange (ok i lie i seen it 3 times for about 10 seconds) i prefer if they just stick with GPRS as like above i tend to have issues with EDGE connection (blackberry on GPRS battery life 3-4 days, when on 3G maybe day or 2 and soem times issues with dropped calls)
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