Americans are only just getting phone payments
 

Watching CNN and they had a guy who making a big deal over people paying with their phones and scoring like people will stop using cash machines and cash all together.

Do they not realise we have been doing it for 3 years? Its not something brand new thats happening

its new to them

they had white teeth in the 70s and we have literally just caught up

they had colour tv 20 years before us too

I was shook when I went to America last year that most places were still swipe your card rather than chip and pin haha

third world country pretending to be developed?

There are large chunks of "non-coastal America" where outside of the cities, internet connectivity is still absolute trash. We have the benefit in the UK of being small (land area wise) and densely populated so (relatively) high speed internet coverage hasn't been too difficult to achieve. Though other countries have significantly faster networks than we do :whistle:.

Anyway - the big difference now is 4g/5g wireless connectivity making it much easier to get good speeds without laying cable, so less densely populated areas can catch up more easily.

full fibre is being installed on my street as we speak :smug:

on on fibre as i type and my phone is 5G compliant

:smug::smug:

You excited to be free of dial up? :smug:

You'll be on FTTC (fibre to the cabinet, traditional phone lines to the house) not FTTD (fibre to the door) which I suspect is what Bots might be talking about.

It's a ****tonne faster than OG fibre optic and I am jealous :(

lol ive been on fibre for years, this is the next step which is full fibre from your home to the exchange with very tasty data rates

Want it so badly :joker: but with where I live, it's likely that over-the-air broadband (6g, maybe 7g) will overtake hard-line speeds before they get around to doing anything like that here.

5g is already faster in terms of data transfer than cabinet fibre, but pings are trash.

i'm in an area that I didnt expect to get it this quick but there have been 5 open reach vans outside for the last couple of weeks. Maybe Boris has actually stuck to his word on broadband :shocked:

its virgin fibre to the door, they ripped up the streets last year to do the whole area and then had to rip up our lockblock to fit it to us.

my speed at time of writing is 120mb

we dont have a phone line anymore

My area didn't have Fibre when I moved here (7 years ago) - we were on ADSL2 (about 18mb) until 2015 :omgno:. I think I was literally the first in the village to get Fibre, I walk past the nearest cabinet on the school run and I saw the engineer finishing up and putting the sticker on on the way home, and was straight on the phone ordering. The guy was like "It's not available in your ar... oh wait it went live... err... today?" :joker:

Also it was ONLY available with BT until November 2017. A monopoly :fist:.

I don't get fast speeds on my phone through wifi unless I turn flight mode on and off.

Does anyone have that problem?

Sounds like it's not connecting to WiFi properly and still going through your mobile data. When you turn aeroplane mode on and off, it'll disconnect both and then prioritise looking for WiFi before connecting mobile data. Would be a problem with the phone itself rather than the WiFi, I would think.

OR, giving it some extra thought, it could be your router doing a bad job of assigning your phone an IP address, and a disconnect/reconnect is nudging it into giving a new one.

Mobile data is off.

I edited with another suggestion :laugh:

If it is that you could go into your router settings, find the phone in devices, and give it a dedicated static IP.