Orange France Capping iPhone Speeds

Lameeeeeee.

wow that sucks. imagine if AT&T did that.....

Well thats a bit s...

They were probably SHOCKED by the increase in network usage after the iPhone went on sale!:eek:

I think ATT has done well to handle bandwidth considering how many iPhones are surfing via 3g now.

They likely were doing this to accommodate the influx of bandwidth.

TEG

384?more than what we're getting at ATT in NYC

You guys should be more specific. Orange is in more countries than just France (and I'm assuming you're writing about the French one)... I have Orange's 3g plan in Slovakia and my tests show 3g speeds up to 1.3 Mbps, and sometimes even more, depending on the signal. The "real" speed of the 3g network here is, however, 3.6Mbps, and Orange Slovakia is planning on increasing it to 7.2 in September, and even more next year. When an Orange representative was asked if the iPhone users will feel these speed increases, he answered positive.

You guys should be more specific. Orange is in more countries than just France (and I'm assuming you're writing about the French one)... I have Orange's 3g plan in Slovakia and my tests show 3g speeds up to 1.3 Mbps, and sometimes even more, depending on the signal.

True. Changed the article

to me this is okay practice. the iphone is way ahead of the times in terms of internet reliance. the iphone makes the internet a necessity in our daily lives. the carriers can't handle the traffic. if anything, this is good because the cell companies are realizing that there is a demand for faster cell data speeds and therefore will work on fixing this issue. before the iphone, cell data speeds were not an issue. looking forward to the future, 1-2 years from now the speed issue will be non-existent. if they didn't cap the network, there would be no access at all due to exceeding their capable bandwidth.

Of course this is not OK, as long as they have advertised and are charging for the 3G service, they need to deliver on their promise. One thing is to not have network that can handle what you claim to deliver; it's another thing entirely to deliberately cripple service in order to protect the weak network and to not say anything about it.