On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:45 +0200, Michele Renda wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hendrik Strydom wrote: > > My wish list: > > 3G, or at least UMTS > > 3g != UMTS ? (I thing you wanted to say EDGE :) No. Simplistically seen from an Australian perspective UMTS allows download speeds up to 384Kb, and 3G allows speeds with a current upper limit of about 7MB and a current infrastructure limitation of about 14MB, depending on the provider. I have never seen a connection at this speed, but download speed in the 1MB to 3MB range is not uncommon. As far as I can establish EDGE is only used by the local '3' service provider, but they seem to use non-standard SIMS, which do not work in all phones, so it would be an unattractive option locally. More importantly data on UMTS/2.5G/3G is charged per Kb, whereas GPRS is normally charged in terms of time spent, which makes it very unattractive. Vodafone for instance offers 5GB of mobile data for $49 (AU) per month, but happily charges $1 per minute for GPRS, where it is hard to beat 5Kb download speeds. To further complicate matters our providers cover quad band between them.
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