o2 Pay & Go VS Giff Gaff

[la7]

Been doing some speed tests on o2 payg 4g and tested it against giff gaff 4g tested same type phones one o2 other on giff gaff with full signal on both and at different o2 cell sites

Here is what i found 02 payg is always a min of 4x faster data speeds than giff gaff so if i get 12mb on giff gaff i will get around 48mb on o2 payg

[Toby]

Hi @la7,

Interesting results! What speed test did you use out of interest? 

[la7]

http://www.speedtest.net/ on two samsung s7 phones highest speed i have had is about 64mb but that was on a very rural site 

[Anonymous]

If I remember rightly it's because o2 is the Main network so they'll get priority speeds & as giffgaff is an mvno they get 2nd best

[MI5]

gg have much less bandwidth too so will suffer more from congestion.

[la7]

Correct i can confirm priority would be

1. mtpas (Government, police, army, vip)

2. o2 Business

3. o2 contract

4. o2 payg & tesco mobile (half owned by o2)

5. Other Mvno ( Dependant on how much data they have paid for)

Some info on mtpas here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTPAS

Google mtpas if you want to do some research on it

[Curr946]

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@la7 wrote:

Correct i can confirm priority would be

1. mtpas (Government, police, army, vip)

2. o2 Business

3. o2 contract

4. o2 payg & tesco mobile (half owned by o2)

5. Other Mvno ( Dependant on how much data they have paid for)

Some info on mtpas here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTPAS

Google mtpas if you want to do some research on it

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Interesting, but makes sence.

[Anonymous]

No the priority would be for whoever is on the main o2 network not dependent on the class of the customer

[la7]

Sorry but you are wrong,

It's

1. mtpas (Government, police, army, vip)

2. o2 Business

3. o2 contract

4. o2 payg & tesco mobile (half owned by o2)

5. Other Mvno ( Dependant on how much data they have paid for)

O2 along with every other network have the ability to restrict parts of the networks from small area to whole towns and city's to the whole country if need be for mtpas sim cards this is the law for mtpas users

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mtpas-sim-cards

http://theconversation.com/when-the-phones-went-dead-7-7-showed-how-disasters-call-for-tomorrows-tec...

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjNgcfW3...

are just some examples above of mtpas just google it and see,

Also i know and have tested in the past o2 business sims get a better speed on data due to the better priority than consumer contract sims, Then o2 payg will get the same speeds as tesco mobile as they are on the same network priority ratings  ,

Then all other o2 mvnos buy a big package of data of o2 and when they get to a set level the retail customer gets restricted via traffic shaping messuares 

[la7]

o2 vs giff gaff video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTlKdrgyEGw this is not my speed test btw

over on the giff gaff forum members are not to happy about they do not get the same network priority's as o2 https://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Contribute/comparing-data-speeds-on-o2-network/td-p/18569019/page/...