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As expected, Everything Everywhere’s just announced that its 4G network, which like the company, is now just called EE. But it’s not just 4G, it’ll also be fibre broadband too. Unfortunately, it’s not live for the customer today, but it will be “within the coming weeks”, so we’ve got a bit of a wait till we can hop on the screaming, 4G network.
EE has switched on the 4G network, though, but just for testing. London, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol are first, with 16 cities across the UK covered by Christmas this year. So, those living in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle, Sheffield and Southampton should get their fix of 4G LTE very soon indeed. People living out in the sticks will have to wait a while, but by the end of 2014 EE will, apparently, have 98 per cent 4G coverage across the country. It’ll supposedly be the fastest roll out in the history of Britain, so with a bit of luck you’ll be covered soon.
Announcements on when you can actually lay down your hard earned cash, and grab your own personal slice of 4G, will come within the next few weeks, presumably when the network passes muster. Still a little while to wait folks, but it’s so close I can almost taste it.
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OK so when do we get invites for the testing and launch party?
I’ll do Bristol and London!
(Don’t know what happened to my previous comment BTW)
hey you changed ya pic! and ill do Nottingham, suspect ill be alone though :/ hey mind you if its 4g we could all go to our favourite pubs and have a video conference style party over the 4g connection….then id look cool….on my own in a pub……dancing with a tablet
Yeah, accidently clicked on my gavatar link this morning and have been changing it every few minutes since.
what youve been changing it or its on some kind of auto? i forgot gravatar was how we changed pics, i was trying to figure it out on the wordpress account bit and obviously getting nowhere, might be time for another “how to change your avitar” article as we got a few gold stars on here with no pic (unless they just dont want one)
To quote a famous conversation I had with The Doctor – “It’s at the bottom of the Bloody Page” http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/09/how-to-add-your-rugged-or-pretty-faces-to-your-commenting-avatars/
lol so it is but not everybody….including me thinks too look there obviously, maybe have a big flashing arrow pointing to the bottom of the page, seems relevant your pic changed to Cartman for that reply
i know about the original article was just thinking maybe it should get a bump or when you get the congratulations you got a gold star email it should say “add a fracking picture, heres how”
e-mail? I didn’t get no e-mail. Mind you it was back in the first couple of days of the site, maybe it wasn’t set up then.
Its not exactly the best way to do avatars. I don’t particularly want to link in my facebook so the only other option is a new account which again I don’t want to do.
Do they have unlimited data yet?
And? To be honest its over rated in my opinion what really would be an improvement would be more capacity on the networks to allow for lower costs and unlimited data. After all 4G is faster than the vast majority of landline connections. Why would you need that on phones and tablets that predominately use low bandwidth applications e.g. browsing so will never use the high speeds.
ill believe it when i see it, not that it matters to me, im on voda and there are no lte phones over here with a qwerty keyboard anyway (someone anyone make me a phone to replace my desire z, not that i dislike it but its getting a bit old spec wise now) nice to know its finally getting there though