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Forums › Spark New Zealand (including Skinny and BigPipe) › The Telecom XT Network SIM packet and some initial speed tests
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#33773 11-May-2009 16:52
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Just got this in the mail today, and I was given the go ahead to post:







I haven't received a handset yet, but I am currently using it on my AT&T Pantech Matrix Pro (Windows Mobile, WCDMA 850/1900/2100 MHz, HSUPA).

All go!




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  #214153 11-May-2009 16:55
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Just in time for the trip eh?



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  #214154 11-May-2009 16:59
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Interesting to see absolutely no XT branding, just Telecom.

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  #214155 11-May-2009 17:00
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How long before they loose the plastic case to save $$$?



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  #214156 11-May-2009 17:01
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Cool :) its like mixing vodafone and telecom together.. ohh god.. did i just say that ?? LoL




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  #214158 11-May-2009 17:28
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sbiddle: Interesting to see absolutely no XT branding, just Telecom.



Guessing it might have been made back when they were going for a GSM launch in November, and XT was coined after they made the change to straight WCDMA? 


Alternatively they might have had a batch of Telecom branded ones for testing/Gen-i/Corporates, maybe Consumer SIMs will be XT branded?

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  #214160 11-May-2009 17:37
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I am guessing this may not be the final design... At the moment connecting from Johnsonville (and posting from XT Network):



Note this is not a final test - I don't know what are the conditions here (filter applied or not, power reduced because of no filter, etc) so this is just an indicative. I was mainly testing to see if the Windows Mobile device I have here is working ok with Windows 7 and the XT Network.

So far so good...




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  #214161 11-May-2009 17:38
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very nice, looking like a prepaid calling card :) but heh still nice.

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#214162 11-May-2009 17:43
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Here we go, a better result - I realised I was running Mozy Backup online at the same time (copying a few gigabytes from this laptop). So I stopped Mozy Backup and ran the test again:




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  #214166 11-May-2009 17:59
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Pretty much the same results I got a week ago a couple of suburbs over :-)

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  #214190 11-May-2009 19:15

Not bad, but wait until you have more subscribers in the same cell and run a speed test again.




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  #214204 11-May-2009 20:13
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upload speed is not high though. :-( latency is very high. My Voda upload speed is 330k. Evdo upload is 500k, latency around 180 to 250ms. Latency is around 350ms. Hopefully those will be improved before the launch day.

 
 
 
 

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  #214206 11-May-2009 20:18
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Is that good? I just got 2.52Mb/s down and 0.34 up using "phone as a modem" on my Vodafone account ... and I'm in Newtown surrounded by flats.

No, not a criticism of XT ... just more wondering what a real world example would be. Say to download a 100mb file, would it mean about 10 mins quicker? Or less/more?

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  #214209 11-May-2009 20:25
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Don't trust the ping reading on speedtest.net with mobile BB

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  #214211 11-May-2009 20:27
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I guess it's not bad at all, as it is not even turned on yet, ...

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  #214232 11-May-2009 21:50
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Why do they still make the sims in the big sim with the small break out part? Seems a waste to me.

IMO the sims are too big and a smaller one is needed since they are virtually the size of a SD card compared to a much smaller micro sd...




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