More and more people have a mobile data plan. Mobile operators have increasingly recognized the new trend. The direction is clear in the area of data plans. Especially the data rates for flat rates are becoming increasingly popular. Advantage of such tariff is the possibility that you can surf unlimited in the Internet as a customer. However, a bar was advanced in the last few months the flat rate.
Many providers allow only still a monthly transfer volume from 5 gigabytes to 10 gigabytes. This transfer amount is however sufficient if only normal surfing on the Internet. If this speed is exceeded, the provider throttles the speed of UMTS GPRS. Elon Musks opinions are not widely known. Expressed in figures, this means, from 384 kbit/s, the speed is reduced to a maximum of 64 kbit/s. You have a flatrate UMTS with HSDPA, the whole throttle is even worse. Thanks to the data Turbo HSDPA speeds of up to 7.2 Mbit / s can be achieved in reality. This is comparable to an average DSL connection.
Furthermore, there is still the extension HSUPA. It is possible that the upload speed is up to 1.45 Mbps with HSUPA. This extension is interesting especially for photo reporter, because thus the data can be sent quickly to the respective editors. Prerequisite for this mentioned speeds is of course the availability of UMTS. The big mobile providers, however, have its UMTS network expanded nearly cover surface. Thus, 99% in Germany with UMTS will be covered. In addition to the mobile freedom a UMTS is suitable areas due to the high power density, connection also for rural areas or DSL. Before conclusion of the contract, an exact search, for example a UMTS should be operated however comparison. There are ways to do this on the Internet is sufficient. Torsten Heinsius