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I was in Italy recently shooting an event and there were 5-6 US based photographers there as well in my group - we were comparing Mobile plans and while they were a bit surprised we had no unlimited data mobile plans in New Zealand, they genuinely wouldn't believe that our LTE networks supported real world 100Mbps throughput. I ended up having to get someone at home to run a speedtest and send me a screenshot.
As Sbiddle says, they know LTE as a technology can support 100Mbps+, but they simply don't get anything like it - most of the time in cities they were saying that 4-6Mbps is about as good as it gets in the real world.
Cheers - N
(ps. I have nothing to do with Spark's mobile offerings)
(pps... OH! Except I have access to the reporting from our Speedtest.net servers and WOW, even the average 4G results across all 3 of our servers for Spark customers is about an order of magnitude better than I was told to expect in the US)
I was at a conference in the US in August that also had a MTM event co-located. I spent a long time talking to a few guys from different companies supplying hardware there who were in total awe seeing a speedtest.net capture showing 140Mbps down and 45Mbps up taken on Vodafone NZ. They simply refused to believe such speeds could exist on a live network and I'm not sure if they ultimately ended up believing me! They also expressed amazement at plans such our roaming deals, particularly Vodafone's $5 per day as roaming anywhere with a US plan is unbelievably expensive.
Most US plans start at about US$50 per month these days, if you want to spend less than that you're far worse off than what you are in NZ.
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