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T-Mobile and Vodafone in 7.2Mb debate

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Posted 25th March 2009 at 12:00pm by Alex Buttle

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T-Mobile thinks that Vodafone's marketing of its packages with speeds of up to 7.2Mb is unrealistic.

The rival providers have clashed over the way in which deals are being advertised, with T-Mobile insisting 7.2Mb has not been reached by customers signing up.

Vodafone, reports PC Pro, says that it has been referring to "7.2Mb technology".

A Vodafone spokesperson told the magazine: "If the site wasn't busy and all the other dependables were bang on, in a test environment that's the maximum speed that technology will provide you. On average it's between 1Mb and 5Mb."

That statement was in response to T-Mobile's head of internet and entertainment Richard Warmsley's claim that: "With the [mobile broadband] dongles that are on the market today, across all the networks, to my knowledge the maximum [speed] that's been achieved is 4.5Mb."

T-Mobile was recently voted the best value UK mobile broadband provider in a YouGov survey.

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  • Gary Finnigan, 4th April 2009.

    I have had Vodafone mobile broadband for almost 3 years now.
    It has never ever come even close to 7.2, but then I never thought it would.
    For the last six months the service has been appalling. So appalling, that I have just made a written formal complaint to Vodafone and signed up with O2 after a successful trial with them.

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  • Carl Young, 25th February 2010.

    This a bit rich coming from T-Mobile. I have had a contract for mobile broadband with T-M since sept 08. I live 100 yards away from their tower in Slough, yet I have never had more than 900 Kb/s. I am constantly on the phone to their helpdesk due to no connection, unreliable 3g and generally poor service.

    They constantly quote their 'up to' 7 Mb speeds and then ignore me. I wonder how they would deal with me paying 'up to' £15 per month. Roll on this September when I can get rid of them and find a decent provider elsewhere. It cannot come a moment too soon!

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