Three (3) is planning to increase its current mobile broadband speeds across its network to 7.2Mbps. It’s hoping that it’ll be in place by the end of the summer, with a further increase to 14.4Mbps HSDPA in the near future (by early next year).
However, expanding to 7.2Mbps doesn’t mean consumers will get to enjoy the service at that speed. At Three’s current speed (2.8Mbps), the most consumers are getting is 1Mbps+ (even though, apparently, a delivery of 3.6Mbps is possible).
In reality, 7.2Mbps would most likely mean a real world speed of 2Mbps at the most. Three have said that the focus of its upgrades isn’t primarily to increase speed but ‘to offer greater capacity, in order to serve more users’.
Unfortunately, Vodafone already has pipped Three to the post - it already has a 7.2Mbps network. And Three’s other competitor, Orange, recently announced its plans to meet its 14.4Mbps target by the end of next year as well as a 7.2Mbps rollout campaign across several UK cities in the short term.
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