MTN LTE on MTN-supplied iPhone 5S

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Hi

Does MTN support LTE on the iPhone 5 - model A1530
LTE is enabled on my account and I am unable to use LTE on the iPhone 5S that I collected yesterday, despite being in a very good LTE coverage area.
Has anybody here got experience with LTE on the iPhone 5S using MTN
 
Well you must have a 128k simcard. Does your nano simcard say 3G or LTE on it? if not its unlikely that that is a 128k simcard. You will need to get a simcard that says LTE or 3G on it for it to work with LTE.

I use afrihost with my Top Up 50 contract and MTN gave me a nano sim that says LTE on it.

LTE vs Non LTE nano simcards.... The 1 that says LTE on it works with LTE the other 1 does not work with LTE....

Once LTE is setup its PURE awesomeness. It just works great with amazing speeds and cheap data via http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/mobile_data on existing contracts.

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Hi
The sim is a LTE sim (LTE written on it). MTN has been saying since Saturday LTE is enabled, today they change their story saying it "failed" on the network so now a technician must activate LTE manually. That was this morning at 7:30AM and still my LTE is not working.
It was such a bad move porting from Vodacom to MTN - at least I had LTE on Vodacom!
 
cavedog said:
Well you must have a 128k simcard. Does your nano simcard say 3G or LTE on it? if not its unlikely that that is a 128k simcard. You will need to get a simcard that says LTE or 3G on it for it to work with LTE.

I use afrihost with my Top Up 50 contract and MTN gave me a nano sim that says LTE on it.

LTE vs Non LTE nano simcards.... The 1 that says LTE on it works with LTE the other 1 does not work with LTE....

Once LTE is setup its PURE awesomeness. It just works great with amazing speeds and cheap data via http://www.afrihost.com/site/product/mobile_data on existing contracts.
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I was planning on doing the same thing as you. I'm getting an Anytime 50 contract that I'll load with a nice data bundle from Afrihost. It's such a good idea!
 
flbjhb said:
Hi
The sim is a LTE sim (LTE written on it). MTN has been saying since Saturday LTE is enabled, today they change their story saying it "failed" on the network so now a technician must activate LTE manually. That was this morning at 7:30AM and still my LTE is not working.
It was such a bad move porting from Vodacom to MTN - at least I had LTE on Vodacom!
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PM me your number.
 
Can you load an afrihost data bundle onto a contract from MTN?
 
Beavcoon said:
I was planning on doing the same thing as you. I'm getting an Anytime 50 contract that I'll load with a nice data bundle from Afrihost. It's such a good idea!
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Yes it works great. You get 100% discounts on MTN top tup with MTN Zone and great discounts offpeak aswell with cheap data from afrihost. Its the perfect combination. To be honest peak call rates are expensive no doubt but I have seen that they are very competitive with off peak rates. If you make good use of the 100% discount peak times which comes about 3 times during the day its a great package. It also allows for LTE which prepaid does not sadly.

The Top Up 50 is only R29 per month for R50 airtime + 25 sms + 10mb data bundle and comes with a LTE sim. Just remember to tell them you want a LTE sim cause they still give non LTE sims with contracts. The LTE sim is free with a new contract

luxe said:
Can you load an afrihost data bundle onto a contract from MTN?
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Yes just signup with afrihost.com and select the apn option and type your contract number in the box. They will notify you once you can start using the afrihost apn.
 
cavedog said:
Yes it works great. You get 100% discounts on MTN top tup with MTN Zone and great discounts offpeak aswell with cheap data from afrihost. Its the perfect combination. To be honest peak call rates are expensive no doubt but I have seen that they are very competitive with off peak rates. If you make good use of the 100% discount peak times which comes about 3 times during the day its a great package. It also allows for LTE which prepaid does not sadly.

The Top Up 50 is only R29 per month for R50 airtime + 25 sms + 10mb data bundle and comes with a LTE sim. Just remember to tell them you want a LTE sim cause they still give non LTE sims with contracts. The LTE sim is free with a new contract



Yes just signup with afrihost.com and select the apn option and type your contract number in the box. They will notify you once you can start using the afrihost apn.
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Oh wow. That's awesome! R29 is nothing so it wouldn't hurt to get the 3GB option for R200, which is also nothing really.

LTE is cool if you live in the coverage zone. I had to switch to the nano-LTE sim for my iPhone and I've never been able to use the great speeds yet :(
 
I was having trouble getting LTE to work on my 5S as well, turns out the iStore sold me a non-LTE MTN nano SIM. Urgh now I guess I have to buy another SIM and do a SIM-swap, what a pain.
 
Weird problem. I phone Vodacom non-LTE to my SO on LTE MTN. I can hear her, but Se can't hear me. It is been like this for day 2. Check and it seems to be MTNs side
 
creeper said:
Weird problem. I phone Vodacom non-LTE to my SO on LTE MTN. I can hear her, but Se can't hear me. It is been like this for day 2. Check and it seems to be MTNs side
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There is no telephony capability on LTE, so it reverts to the next technology ie 2100 UMTS or 900 GSM, this being whilst the 1800 LTE is acting simultaneously in the background, if you are busy downloading that is.
 
Voldemort said:
There is no telephony capability on LTE, so it reverts to the next technology ie 2100 UMTS or 900 GSM, this being whilst the 1800 LTE is acting simultaneously in the background, if you are busy downloading that is.
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Interesting. I was under the impression that LTE is a data and voice combined technology.
 
creeper said:
Interesting. I was under the impression that LTE is a data and voice combined technology.
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Its possible to be activated, yes, but we haven't activated voice on LTE. Who knows, maybe one day, but for now? lets revel in the better data speeds;)
 
Voldemort said:
Its possible to be activated, yes, but we haven't activated voice on LTE. Who knows, maybe one day, but for now? lets revel in the better data speeds;)
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So the Hauwei sales guy did not lie.

Still doesn't explain why my SO can't hear me over GSM. We decided to use FaceTime and it works better. Go figure. Only in SA where the 3G /4g networks have less calls dropping than standard GSM

And yes. It is MTN or my SOs phone. I've phoned Cell C and Vodacom connected phones
 
creeper said:
So the Hauwei sales guy did not lie.

Still doesn't explain why my SO can't hear me over GSM. We decided to use FaceTime and it works better. Go figure. Only in SA where the 3G /4g networks have less calls dropping than standard GSM

And yes. It is MTN or my SOs phone. I've phoned Cell C and Vodacom connected phones
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One way speech is entirely possible- what would have to be analysed is whether or not its because the LTE is running simultaneously, or whether its literally just a serving site fault.
 
Voldemort said:
One way speech is entirely possible- what would have to be analysed is whether or not its because the LTE is running simultaneously, or whether its literally just a serving site fault.
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On the otherside. Most discussions between men and women are one sided :whistle:

How can I log a fault with MTN? My suspicion it might be a site fault. MTN quality where my SO works has been deteriorating the past few weeks
 
What is this "LTE SIM" nonsense? This only exists with MTN. With Vodacom and Telkom Mobile, any 64K SIM can be provisioned for LTE.
 
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