So what GPRS phone would anyone planning to use it in the UK recommend?
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From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of van Hilten, Clive
Sent: 29 April 2002 09:28
To: 'keitai-l@appelsiini.net'
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: In case you invested in 3G...
My experience of it in the UK is that, as a general rule, it works fine.
In a very crowded cell you may well have connection/stability problems
(the operators 'throttle' the bandwidth available to data calls if there
is an overwhelming demand for voice calls within that cell at that time,
as voice is currently more lucrative than data), and a sustained
download rate of 33.6kbps is achievable.
Clive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Motoyoshi Kalland [mailto:tmk@earthling.net]
Sent: 27 April 2002 20:52
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: In case you invested in 3G...
how well does gprs work in the uk? here in norway people also run around
buying gprs phones these days. tons of units sold, but i dont think most
ppl get to take adantage of the features as the gprs coverage isn't as
reliable as the telecoms like to pretend it is. u can consider yourself
lucky if u manage to get a connection to stay stable for 5min and push
as
much as 14kbps. the packet fees are higher than what u end up paying for
a
gsm data transfer as well so far. the tipping point wont happen before
the
price is low enough AND the network actually works.
i think gprs is a major disapointment for most. its not working too
well,
and the phones are still crap.
At 15:23 26.04.2002 +0100, you wrote:
>An interesting little factoid from the UK, rather like that low level
>of Foma usage on Foma. A fifth of all handsets sold in the UK by the
>Carphone Warehouse, the biggest phone retailer in the country, were
>GPRS in Q1. That's about 35,000 units.
>And how many of those people used GPRS network services?
>200.
>This reminds me of the days when SMS was installed on all phones, but
it
>took months and months before it took off and then boom.
>So where's the "Tipping Point"?
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