I rang Vodafone yesterday and agreed to the extra $10 a month to enable 4G LTE on my iPhone 5. I could see from their coverage map that my home in Howick isn’t “in the zone”, and my Epsom office is on the margin (as it turns out, no dice there either).
So I’ve yet to give it a good test. (I’m busy at present with other stuff.) But I drifted into a LTE zone on Auckland’s southern motorway south of Greenlane this afternoon and took the opportunity to have a play. Much faster.
I’ll report back in more detail later.
– P
Update 7 March: Here are a couple of Speedtest results from Karangahape Rd in Auckland today: http://twitpic.com/c97l29
Very nice, so if you don’t pay the $10 do you still see the LTE network?
Its just won’t play at 4G speed?
Dunno. The lady from VF said she needed to enable my account to connect to it … and I had to switch ON the ‘Enable LTE’ setting in Settings>General>Cellular>Enable LTE.
But whether a phone on a non-enabled account would detect the LTE network or not? Hmmm … I’m pretty sure the “LTE” would only appear in the status bar if you were *connected* to it. – P
I wish technology would just stop.
My iphone 4 on 3G works just fine. Just like my old laptop did. (I didn’t realise how slow it was until i got a new one recently.)
Someone make this craziness stop.
Life’s too short to wait for a slow computer … or ‘broadband’ connection. Roll on the changes!! 🙂 – P