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Originally Posted by onethreealpha View Post
Here in Aus, HSDPA will provide a max theoretical download speed of 7.2Mbps
Phones like the SGS2, with HSDPA+ will support a theoretical max of 21Mbps.

Both run on Telstra's "NextG" Frequency @850mhz, however makes no real difference as Telstra throttle their network to give a real download speed between 500Kbps and around 3Mbps.
Phones like the SGS2, here in Australia will never really get to utilise their theoretical maximum speeds, as the Telco's will use bandwidth throttling to maintain network redundancy (and thus save money on investing in infrastructure upgrade works)

Whilst it seems like our friends across the water like to market HSDPA+ as "4G", do the Telco's there actually support this with real maximum speeds on the Frequencies they run on?
If not, HSDPA+ may not be of much use after all.
T-Mobile is the same. My N900 contract T-Mobile was capped heavily. They capped my speed (Web n Walk) at around 300kbps which is pathetic. The annoying thing was that their cheaper Android contracts came with (Web n Walk+) which was uncapped. I actually called them and complained about this but got nowhere in the end. Don't really understand T-mobiles strategy after they renamed web n walk. I don't even think they offer Web n walk+ anymore so they just choose which phones contracts they cap and mention nothing of it

Originally Posted by Danramos
All's I know is: it serves up palmtop porn pretty promptly.
Dan, I don't even want to know where you get down to need 3G/4G, hopefully not on the train otherwise I'm going to be highly suspicious of anybody who opens a broadsheet and uses their phone.
 

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