Our pings were 30ms? As I said I am not sure what you're getting at. The network is fine, there are teething problems with all of the MNOs on the new Elizabeth Street sections that are going to be resolved.
Vodafone's target is 10Mbps, I don't know what the other MNOs are.
I am bemused why you deem 5Mbps unacceptable, there is nothing you cannot do without 5Mbps, literally anything would work on it.
If Wembley Stadium is full on a match day and every customer is receiving 5Mbps, I think that would be more than acceptable.
I am afraid your standards for a network are crazy and will never be met. We will always try and do more and where we can we will but to be unhappy with a reasonable target is nonsensical.
I don't wish to sound rude but it's not as simple as "snap your fingers and it's done". We have 30 million live connections to support. Yes, the network is under strain in a lot of areas and we need to do more - and we are. But ultimately if we can get every customer on a good connection as a minimum 5Mbps and then faster where possible, that is what we will do.
When people are complaining about the network being broken, if there's no data throughput at all then yes, fair enough, there's an issue. But I fail to see what is wrong with having a busy network having a minimum that would still be more than usable. And to say we don't try is an insult to me and my colleagues, I hope you will apologise.
What happens when applications are developed in other countries that use the multi hundred Mbps speeds that 5G provides? Most people in the UK won't be able to use them because their provider decided 10Mbps is enough?
If you upgrade every site in a town and the users there still aren't able to get over 5Mbps, it's time for a new site like EE do, 5Mbps shouldn't be a target in 2023, it should be a bare minimum. If there are tens of thousands of people in one place getting 5Mbps, that's impressive, but most of the time they'll be using their phones in a "less congested" area.
I am afraid your standards for a network are crazy and will never be met. We will always try and do more and where we can we will but to be unhappy with a reasonable target is nonsensical.
Although not in this country, many networks have already met and exceeded the standard
Don't get me wrong, 5Mbps is probably more than enough for most
at the moment and it's a whole lot better than how O2 was performing before, but I really don't think it should be a "target" while your competitor networks are deploying gigabit 5G networks and
still performing better in every metric in every survey even when you take data out of the picture - But other networks delivered these speeds a long time ago, I'm pretty sure you could've said "5Mbps is enough" when they were rolling out 3G
I don't even know exactly for "what usecase" yet, but globally we are rolling out insanely fast 5G networks and if the market adapts to use them and O2 is still saying "5Mbps is enough" then they will find themselves quickly failing
And again like i've posted over the weekend after trying out O2, i'm massively impressed with how the data performance has come on, I haven't encountered any congestion but there is still a lot of 3G areas, I don't have much bad to say about them in my area, unless Three has upgraded since I tried it they seem to be the fastest here at the moment