Meteor prepares its 14.4Mbs 3G broadband service

I was at a briefing yesterday on Meteor's plans for its 3G broadband service. Here are the main points discussed.

1. The company will soon start to switch over to 14.4Mbs (its service now is an 'up to' 7.2Mbs service). The speed displayed on its test site in Galway was 11Mbs, though this was on a dedicated cell site; on an open, public site, this would be slower

2. The average data usage among Meteor's current 3G broadband user base is 2.2 gigabytes per month

3. Meteor will not change its 5 gigabyte monthly data cap anytime soon: however, it will keep an eye on this and may review the cap at the end of this year

4. Meteor has almost 8,000 3G broadband customers since its launch earlier this year. It describes this figure as being "ahead of schedule"

5. Meteor's current 3G broadband service is available in Dublin, Cork, Drogheda, Naas and one or two other towns close to Dublin. It has begun rolling the service out in Galway

6. Asked about the future of its 2G network, the company said that it would maintain this until 2020

Comments

[PK]

Interesting figures. Did they mention:
How many of their customers hit the cap?
What the average download speeds were?
Thanks

[PaulSweeney]

I heard someone say at Telco2 conference that "uncapped broadband should be called subprime broadband with the advent of video".....

[cgarvey]

Great to see you challenged/queried the ridiculous 14.4Mbps claim! We need more of that in reporting.

Realistically, no one will ever see 14.4Mbps (or anywhere near it). Still, more speeds and more capacity (and, of course the roll out of the service in Galway) are to be welcomed.