Just changed my Simple Mobile service from my previous $60.00 4G plan to the new $40.00 3G plan today, thought that I will save some $$$, am I wrong, have using the new plan for three hours and was very upset about the data download speed.
When I had the $60.00 4G plan, the download speed was really 4G, average 1.5M to 2M, which was really great.
And now today after the plan switched, the so call 3G download speed is cap at 119 kbps, yes 119 kbps!!! I have tried 10 speedtest tests within one hour period time and all cap at the same download speed of 119 kps, no more and no less.
Then I tried played some Youtube videos, the speed is so slow that even the low quality ones buffers constantly, damn, what a diffrence with my previous 4G plan.
I will now stuck with this crappy 3G speed for at least a month, hope that Simple Mobile will raise the download speed so it is more useable.
After this month, I am planning to either going back to the $60.00 4G plan or change my service to Straight Talk $45.00 3G plan, which my friends said is pity good, at least useable.
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Originally Posted by bcw448
When I had the $60.00 4G plan, the download speed was really 4G, average 1.5M to 2M, which was really great.
Those aren't 4G speeds. They were always well within the realm of 3G, or at least 3.5G (HSPA). The iPhone 3G is even capable of beating those speeds on AT&T if you don't live in a city with crappy service. But it's sad that the "4G" moniker has been taken up retroactively to describe 1-2 megabit speeds.
The first revision of UMTS 3G had a speed of 384 kbit/s. To provide less than half of that as "3G" is criminal.
In a general sense, if it's faster then Edge, it's "3G" speeds. This is still on the higher side of EDGE. I know they use the wording depending on areas and devices but still...
We'll see. We need more users and tests in . This is only the first day and first area. We'll see if Simple is being complicated.
Even UMTS 384 is barely better then EDGE. EDGE can come out over 100k while most standards usualy hit rates that are about half of their rated number. That means Umts 384 would rate an average of about 190 or so in real life.
Looks like there's a prepaid vs postpaid definition of 3G vs 4G and the verdict may be if it barely passes the entry level of what a given technology is considered, it's whatever it's labelled as.
For these prices, it's not unreasonable to expect some conditions.
Below are the Speedtest.net results I captured. See the 119kbps download speed.
Also see the below result, please note the download graph on the left hand side. You can notice a constant straight line there, which shows that the download speed is cap at 119kbps.
Below are the Speedtest.net results I captured. See the 119kbps download speed.
Also see the below result, please note the download graph on the left hand side. You can notice a constant straight line there, which shows that the download speed is cap at 119kbps.
They need to bump it up to at least 1m/sec I would think.
They need to bump it up to at least 1m/sec I would think.
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You can't expect that for $40/mo. They should aim to compete with AT&T's GoPhone feature phone $50 unlimited speeds. I think thats like 0.3 to 0.5mbps, which is very much usable.
Did you call up Simple Mobile and ask them if you should be getting better speeds? Maybe I am just hoping there is some glitch on the 1st day over on their end.
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Hmmm...I had a plan once to spin a friend who is on my family plan so he can enjoy unlimited calling as well as international text as I will migrate my family plan to new value plan (and incur 2 years contract).
Now I read the so-called 3G is so pathetic!!! And I may change my mind to keep him in
Our local rep told us that the "3g" speed should be double what was offered on their old $50 plan which had "2g" speed advertised at around 110kbps. I did see a customer getting around 200kbps but I have yet to test more. I haven't gotten a chance to test it much.
Hopefully/Maybe they are still updating there towers or whatever it is to give 3G signal so the towers are still giving 2G signals. I hope it's not 2G I wanted to Switch from Virgin Mobile
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Originally Posted by bcw448
LIES!
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