4g coming to ireland on thursday.

strobe

Everyone switching to meteor?

Professey Chin

At their plan prices. Not a hope

https://store.meteor.ie/4g/

kevovek

Hopefully three will come out with better plans and pay as you go deals. 1GB of internet is pathetic

Banjo String

Lol. The first network to unleash 4G have a 1GB limit.

That's sad.

wotzgoingon

What's with Carlow getting it before the likes of Galway, Limerick or Cork?

projectgtr

shocking haveing to change SIM and plan just to use 4G, they are giving unlimited calls and texts but data caps are shocking! Looking like Three in the UK arent charging extra at all.

denlaw

I can't even get 3G where i live, i'm not holding out for 4G..

Chris Dolmeth

Banjo String wrote: »

Lol. The first network to unleash 4G have a 1GB limit.

That's sad.

The UK aren't any better. They all have similar limits. Cheaper though.

KoolKid

4g with a limit makes no sense to me. It's a faster service a low limit seems like a ploy to cash in on over usage or extra add ons.
Very poor research from meteors marketing department in my opinion.

Ste-

KoolKid wrote: »

4g with a limit makes no sense to me. It's a faster service a low limit seems like a ploy to cash in on over usage or extra add ons.
Very poor research from meteors marketing department in my opinion.

Most networks have been doing this for years!

petes

KoolKid wrote: »

4g with a limit makes no sense to me. It's a faster service a low limit seems like a ploy to cash in on over usage or extra add ons.
Very poor research from meteors marketing department in my opinion.

Have a look through Three's forum on here and you will plenty of this going on!

KoolKid

Regardless, I don't see the logic of upgrading your service and downgrading your limits.

fl4pj4ck

KoolKid wrote: »

Regardless, I don't see the logic of upgrading your service and downgrading your limits.

but it's 4G!

JustAddWater

The Dark Lord Cthulu wrote: »

At their plan prices. Not a hope

https://store.meteor.ie/4g/

€59 for 24 months on their 'classic' plan?

Classic alright :rolleyes:

KoolKid

fl4pj4ck wrote: »

but it's 4G!

Exactly. It would be like upgrading to UPC for 150 meg broadband and getting a 50 gig limit..
I'm using 4-5 gig on 3g at the moment. On a faster service obviously I'll be needing more..

murphaph

Plus, get unlimited internet until March 2014 on all these plans

So there's no cap until next March? There might be some competition by then to make them revise those ridiculous limits. Or am I reading that wrong?

fl4pj4ck

wishful thinking

long_b

murphaph wrote: »

So there's no cap until next March? There might be some competition by then to make them revise those ridiculous limits. Or am I reading that wrong?

Once you've signed up for a contract it doesn't matter what the opposition are doing in March.

30 day sim only plan ftw

loyatemu

murphaph wrote: »

So there's no cap until next March? There might be some competition by then to make them revise those ridiculous limits. Or am I reading that wrong?

you'll still have another 18 months of your contract to go.

KoolKid

I'd say it's more to get you tied into a contract with ridiculous caps before the competition arrives.

murphaph

loyatemu wrote: »

you'll still have another 18 months of your contract to go.

Ah ok, didn't read that. Really a 24 month contract even if you go sim only? Madness!

Overheal

Caps are a good thing, however. I'm with Sprint, the Unlimited network in the US. Its 3G service can be, in sparse parts, fairly reasonable, when you have coverage at all (not out in the rural areas), you can stream spotify etc. but so help you god if you go anywhere urban. The contention rate is so terrible that I have frequently lost the ability to even SMS, much less fetch email. Their towers get crippled in dense environments because a couple folks playing pandora or running torrents from the tower ruin it for everybody. Caps are quite a necessary evil on these things, the towers just dont work on the same tech as landline and even at that these companies are starting to creep up on me with data caps for that too.

KoolKid

Overheal wrote: »

Caps are a good thing, however. I'm with Sprint, the Unlimited network in the US. Its 3G service can be, in sparse parts, fairly reasonable, when you have coverage at all (not out in the rural areas), you can stream spotify etc. but so help you god if you go anywhere urban. The contention rate is so terrible that I have frequently lost the ability to even SMS, much less fetch email. Their towers get crippled in dense environments because a couple folks playing pandora or running torrents from the tower ruin it for everybody. Caps are quite a necessary evil on these things, the towers just dont work on the same tech as landline and even at that these companies are starting to creep up on me with data caps for that too.

While I agree with what your saying, surly you must agree if speed increases by a factor so must any cap..

hmmm

What's the point of delivering a fast network and then putting a small cap on it? I really don't understand the mindset.

Web pages load plenty fast over the existing networks. The point of a fast 4g network must be to deliver high bandwidth services (Netflix for example), otherwise there's no reason to upgrade.

KoolKid

Honestly , the only logic I can see to this is they are milking the market before the competition arrives.

Overheal

KoolKid wrote: »

While I agree with what your saying, surly you must agree if speed increases by a factor so must any cap..

Only if you want those speeds to remain - speedy. 3G was once the blazing renaissance of telecommunication. Now look at it. The trick to keeping 4G and LTE stable is managing the contention rate to ensure you get at least a minimum speed when you're in a dense area, and sure when you're in the goonies you can see some phones hit 60Mbps. I like my navigation and siri to work when Im driving in traffic. I don't like spending five minutes trying to retrieve my email.

The 1GB cap seems fairly low but they'll increase it if you're willing to pay for it. Mobile internet is not designed to be a landline substitute. The average US customer will use >2GB of data per month on a smartphone. Some people end up using more just because they have unlimited.

Inquitus

There is nothing worth doing on 4g you can't do perfectly well on 3g when capped at 1 to 2gb. 4g is pointless unless it comes at no additional cost.