My iPhone 5 says 'Vodacom 4G'...?

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DemonSplicer

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Running iOS 7 Beta 4 and my iPhone 5 is showing Vodacom 4G instead of Vodacom LTE

Anyone else noticed the same thing?ImageUploadedByTapatalk1375130196.752118.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1375130219.652570.jpg
 
jannievanzyl said:
Yes, with the new IOS 7 the phone upgrades the service to full 4G, currently supporting speeds of up to 300Mb/s.
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Hmmm.... thought 4G's max theoretical speed is 100Mb/s on iPhone?

Can you imagine 300Mb/s though - would need to take out a loan for data!
 
DemonSplicer said:
Hmmm.... thought 4G's max theoretical speed is 100Mb/s on iPhone?

Can you imagine 300Mb/s though - would need to take out a loan for data!
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The minimum speed of LTE-Advanced (a.k.a. 4G) is 100Mb/s for mobile and 1Gb/s for static installations.

But, and sorry to burst the bubble, NOWHERE IN THE WORLD will you find commercial 4G. Especially on your iPhone. :)

It looks like the IOS version you've got was spun for a US network where they (incorrectly) call LTE 4G.

BTW, the first test instances of 4G is beginning to come out and we are seeing speeds of up to 300Mb/s.
 
BTW, I don't get this thing about your data bill going up if your speed goes up. Do you suddenly start visiting different web sites with richer content because the speed went up? Or now only download HD instead of SD?

If your browsing habits stay the same, a faster link will only improve your QoS, not use more data.

I know the likes of marine1 think it's cool to make such statements, but it's not logical. Only you can change how much data you access, not the link speed.
 
jannievanzyl said:
But, and sorry to burst the bubble, NOWHERE IN THE WORLD will you find commercial 4G. Especially on your iPhone. :)
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I think South Korea have switched on LTE Advanced meneer.

On 9 October, 2012, Russian carrier Yota launched the first-ever commercial implementation of the technology, at 11 of its base-stations around Moscow. However compatible handsets weren't available until the first-half of 2013.[2]

On June 25th, 2013, Korea's SK Telecom announced the launching of LTE-Advanced services in Korea. [
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_Advanced
 
jannievanzyl said:
BTW, I don't get this thing about your data bill going up if your speed goes up. .
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I have tried to get his point across many times. I have many times said that a 1GIG movie download will still be 1Gig in size, now matter how fast your connection can download it. Me as a consumer myself would of course love to see data allocations grow as our speed increases ... but I dont really understand the faster speed automatically = astronomical data bill either. :confused:
 
Ockie said:
I have tried to get his point across many times. I have many times said that a 1GIG movie download will still be 1Gig in size, now matter how fast your connection can download it. Me as a consumer myself would of course love to see data allocations grow as our speed increases ... but I dont really understand the faster speed automatically = astronomical data bill either. :confused:
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It does not, but some (mostly those logically-challenged) seems to think it's a 'cool' statement to make.

As the article said, there are no LTE-Advanced consumer devices out yet. You might get a modem the size of a brick but they'll be test modems. Turning it on at network level is pretty easy. We're ready as well.
 
I think they mean that since pages/downloads etc will load/download quicker they'll browse/download more thus using more data in the same time. Basically if it's twice as fast they'll be using 2x as much data.
 
abzo said:
I think they mean that since pages/downloads etc will load/download quicker they'll browse/download more thus using more data in the same time. Basically if it's twice as fast they'll be using 2x as much data.
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I might agree with you if you went from dialup to LTE .... but the difference of speed when browsing mybroadband for example will not be all that noticeable I think. Where you will really see a difference is going to be downloads ..... and there you will normally know the size of the file you are downloading.

A grey area possibly could be something like youtube.
 
jannievanzyl said:
BTW, I don't get this thing about your data bill going up if your speed goes up. Do you suddenly start visiting different web sites with richer content because the speed went up? Or now only download HD instead of SD?

If your browsing habits stay the same, a faster link will only improve your QoS, not use more data.

I know the likes of marine1 think it's cool to make such statements, but it's not logical. Only you can change how much data you access, not the link speed.
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Are you implying that speeds don't change consumer habits? So can we expect flat usage across various speed adsl accounts, for example?
 
jannievanzyl said:
BTW, I don't get this thing about your data bill going up if your speed goes up. Do you suddenly start visiting different web sites with richer content because the speed went up? Or now only download HD instead of SD?
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I would guess it is generally true that the faster one's download speed is, the more data one uses.

It has certainly been that way for me; I can visit more websites, have downloads going in the background and stream better quality on a faster connection.
 
I for one pause my downloads while streaming porn. Wouldn't need to on LTE...:p
 
If something goes awry, or some device initiates an unexpected download (a collection of Windows updates, say) you'll be in data hell that much quicker if you don't notice. It's not difficult to understand.
 
ginggs said:
I would guess it is generally true that the faster one's download speed is, the more data one uses.

It has certainly been that way for me; I can visit more websites, have downloads going in the background and stream better quality on a faster connection.
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I agree....people could very well do that. But then you would start buying bigger bundles when you see you are now using more data because of your faster connection. But as I mentioned before .... dont think you will see such a huge increase of data usage just for browsing. You wont notice the speed increase that much with browsing mybb for example. Where you will notice it is with downloads ... and there you will in most cases know the size of the file you are downloading.
 
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