In a real conundrum at the moment.

I live 400m from an adsl 1 ASAM DSLAM.    On the new adsl coverage maps it says I can get between 5-10 mbps etc.  Reality is you get 0.5mb or less for most of the evening and if lucky you can get 6mb dl during the day when no one is around.   

So I decided to go with a local WISP provider which initially started ok once they put a dedicated fibre link in but there are two providers in the area  and they are interfering with each other  and there seems to be a bit of battle going on.  Connection is shoddy was a stable ping of around 50 now and up/down to 200 with download speeds halved etc.

Well Spark announce  4g 700mhz for us rural people and at the time I put my address in and I get coverage just but enough and I am thinking put an  antenna up etc and increase the signal and all should be ok.  Well I go and check the website and now my address does does now allow 4G RBI only adsl.   WTF? 

So I go into Spark business shop in Timaru( have a busniess account with double fibre lines at work etc ; customer service stuff ) and they are not particularly clued up yet as it does not go live until September 2015 but they check my address and say you are unlikey to get the 4G because you have ADSL where you live......  Explained the situation but not really the people to be talking about.


Can someone from Spark tell me why I wont be able to have 4G once the towers are switched on and if it is because I live close to an ADSL cabinet then that really sucks as there is about 6mb-12mb shared between 50 houses.

I will give my address in a PM if required.  Cheers


ps this was going to be a life saver this 4G but.....