About wonderful 3G
More recently, the Siberian branch of Megafon first announced that it had become the Kuzbass brand, i.e. everyone is happy, everything is fun, service standards are at their best, they know and respect the brand. A few days earlier, the company announced the launch of a third-generation network in the Kemerovo region and invited people to offices to test third-generation services: video calls, high-speed Internet. So they really say, hurry up - you make people laugh.
How are things in reality?
It is worth saying that the network earned much earlier than its official launch. Although during the conference, company representatives promised to attract beta testers to test services and only release tested products on the market, but despite these statements, beta testers were not involved, as they most likely knew about the problems at the design stages and could not to solve them.
What are the problems of MegaFon’s third generation networks in practice?
Judging by the map located in the company’s office, for more than 600 thousandth population of the city of Novokuznetsk, in the central part of the city there are 2 (two) base stations. Of course, with such a density of subscribers, constant brainwashing with Internet advertising at high speeds and unlimited tariffs, there is no need to talk about any quality of this service.
Catching a third-generation network is possible only on the street, or in a window that opens to the locations of the base stations, while the phone has to emit a signal with such strength that its battery lasts 20 minutes on the Internet or 15 conversations.
Apparently, due to the high load, services, especially the Internet, are unstable: loss of connection, disconnection, network and server failures of the company.
Perhaps this is only the beginning of work, but judging by the fact that the network has been in this state for several months, there was only enough money for this.
The big mistake of the company was to declare at the beginning of the commercial operation of the network (although in the test period they took money for services).
In the testing center of the third generation network, which, incidentally, is located in the building on which one of the base stations is installed, you can work on the Internet on a branded laptop manufactured by Lenovo. Here one negative is superimposed on another: this subnotebook is terribly slow when working in IE, which is installed there. The maximum that I managed to squeeze out of it is 438 kilobits / s for downloading and 38 kilobits / s for downloading data, i.e. essentially it's a good EDGE. On a subnotebook with a built-in modem, 7.2 Mbps flaunts, and the network indicator shows a 3.5G network (HSDPA).
It is worth saying about the tariffs: they were both overpriced, and so they remained, i.e. if you just want to go online, then pay 7 rubles per megabyte, and if you want to save, you can go down to 2, but you need to try hard, because with the latest innovations the company has messed up tariffs nowhere else: you need to know where and when you connected and where you are right now.
With an unlimited tariff with a limit of one and a half gigabytes, after which you are put at 48 kilobits / s there was an interesting story in general, because until the last moment the operator did not admit the existence of this restriction.
If I worked in such a company, then I would be ashamed to tell people about it.
The post turned out to be an excerpt from the complaint book, please excuse me, but the point here is this: do not believe the claims that third-generation networks operate throughout the country, as there was no Internet in the outbacks and capitals, it did not even appear with the introduction of 3G.
How are things in reality?
It is worth saying that the network earned much earlier than its official launch. Although during the conference, company representatives promised to attract beta testers to test services and only release tested products on the market, but despite these statements, beta testers were not involved, as they most likely knew about the problems at the design stages and could not to solve them.
What are the problems of MegaFon’s third generation networks in practice?
Judging by the map located in the company’s office, for more than 600 thousandth population of the city of Novokuznetsk, in the central part of the city there are 2 (two) base stations. Of course, with such a density of subscribers, constant brainwashing with Internet advertising at high speeds and unlimited tariffs, there is no need to talk about any quality of this service.
Catching a third-generation network is possible only on the street, or in a window that opens to the locations of the base stations, while the phone has to emit a signal with such strength that its battery lasts 20 minutes on the Internet or 15 conversations.
Apparently, due to the high load, services, especially the Internet, are unstable: loss of connection, disconnection, network and server failures of the company.
Perhaps this is only the beginning of work, but judging by the fact that the network has been in this state for several months, there was only enough money for this.
The big mistake of the company was to declare at the beginning of the commercial operation of the network (although in the test period they took money for services).
In the testing center of the third generation network, which, incidentally, is located in the building on which one of the base stations is installed, you can work on the Internet on a branded laptop manufactured by Lenovo. Here one negative is superimposed on another: this subnotebook is terribly slow when working in IE, which is installed there. The maximum that I managed to squeeze out of it is 438 kilobits / s for downloading and 38 kilobits / s for downloading data, i.e. essentially it's a good EDGE. On a subnotebook with a built-in modem, 7.2 Mbps flaunts, and the network indicator shows a 3.5G network (HSDPA).
It is worth saying about the tariffs: they were both overpriced, and so they remained, i.e. if you just want to go online, then pay 7 rubles per megabyte, and if you want to save, you can go down to 2, but you need to try hard, because with the latest innovations the company has messed up tariffs nowhere else: you need to know where and when you connected and where you are right now.
With an unlimited tariff with a limit of one and a half gigabytes, after which you are put at 48 kilobits / s there was an interesting story in general, because until the last moment the operator did not admit the existence of this restriction.
If I worked in such a company, then I would be ashamed to tell people about it.
The post turned out to be an excerpt from the complaint book, please excuse me, but the point here is this: do not believe the claims that third-generation networks operate throughout the country, as there was no Internet in the outbacks and capitals, it did not even appear with the introduction of 3G.