Vodafone speeds on 2G - Chennai Circle

[Sushubh]

Cartel! No one wants to start a price war because it hurts everyone involved especially after Mobile Number Portability was introduced.

 

[mhsabir]

Got confused, because when I googled I got this

 

[x720]

Heh.

This. http://www.nerve.org.za/mdma

 

[mhsabir]

As expected, I am on edge now. Speeds are terrible and it almost feels like a crime to be charging for this. Looks like my short stint with Vodafone 2g is as good as over...

 

[Sushubh]

Yup. 2G was quite usable before 3G launched. Now they have messed up 2G speeds to push customers to upgrade to 3G. From what I understand, EDGE technology is quite capable of providing decent browsing experience.

 

[x720]

Yep. Edge if run uncapped can easily deliver 30kBps. Case in point, after their network upgrade, Tata GSM easily runs at 25-30kBps here. Since they don't have 3G here, edge speeds aren't capped.

 

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[SVK]

I have IDEA 3G plan of 300 MB. At first I used to switch data ON/OFF to save phone battery which would drain fast if I kept data ON with 3G whole day. But due to this my mails/weather/whatsapp etc won't sync automatically (obviously as data is off).
Then I started keeping data ON continuously, but kept mobile in 2G mode. So battery lasts whole day, and all apps mentioned above sync well with 2G. When I want to browse FB/Twitter or through browser, I change from 2G to 3G mode.
(Sometimes I forget to change from 2G to 3G, yet I am able to browser some webpages or apps like FB/Twitter, but images won't load as quick as on 3G 🙂)
So I can say IDEA 2G speed is also good. 😛layful:

 

[Sushubh]

I really hate that stock android does not have an integrated widget for OFF/EDGE/3G/4G. Have to do manually.