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Originally Posted by Qtx
Anyone got one of these phones and use it on the 3 network? What's the 4G speeds like? Was tempted to get one of these phones but heard that they don't support band 20, which Three uses for part of their signal. Wondered how that worked and what effect it would have on speed/internet? Three has upgraded my area for 4G but still with the non-4G version of the S3. Speeds are great anyway but if the 4G is comparable with this phone, worth upgrading for the price and those specs. No point having unlimited 4G if it's worse than HSDPA though. Must be someone with one of these phones who knows
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3 do not currently use any band 20 as part of their network, and even once they eventually do, it will be the slowest band and probably only used for voice calls anyway.
Therefore the lack of band 20 is pretty much a non-issue, unless you later plan on moving to either Vodafone or O2.
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Originally Posted by dcclanuk
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Unfortunately that article is mostly bollocks, as far as the UK is concerned. Where it is isn't downright wrong, it's still highly misleading.
Two networks use band 20 across the
whole UK. The biggest UK network uses
only band 20, everywhere. Band 20 also provides the best coverage in cities, irrespective of the fact that, well it provides the only coverage on cities right now on the first and third biggest UK networks.
Furthermore, the speed isn't limited to 50Mbps as they claim, both UK band-20 networks operate up to 75Mbps networks (and yes, I have personally done speed tests of 72Mbps+ on them). These networks are also the networks with the least 42Mbps DC-HSPA+ to fall back on.
Irrespective of that, although DC-HSPA+ provides up to 42Mbps download speeds, or a little over half of that of Band 20 LTE, it only 5Mbps upload speeds, less than one fifth of band 20 LTE (25-30Mbps), and has much higher control-plane latency.