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Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India

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Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India

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Post by muteh »

minimaxir wrote: post #42

It's worth noting that Chrome has a Device Emulation feature, which allows you to throttle connection speed to common presets such as EDGE/2G/3G/etc. It makes testing mobile layouts easier, at the least. https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/iter...

I used this at work today. Someone had asked what our webapp's sysreqs were. I said that network connection was very unlikely to be a problem, but it really struggled when set to GPRS. Now, I think it's unlikely that anybody would be using it on that, but it's still good to know that it's an issue.

Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

joosters wrote: post #94
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #48

Do Facebookers never venture outside of cities? Because maybe the UK is weird, but getting 2G even in developed areas isn't that uncommon for me. Sure there's 4G in cities and 3G in many places, but there's plenty of places with poor signal or outdated transmitters (like the town I live in). (This is especially noticeable if you're in a train or a bus where you're frequently changing cells.)

It's really bad for satnav apps. If you try to plan a route in Waze with a 2G connection, the app will give a timeout error and become unusable.

Huh. Google Maps handles it really well, I frequently use it for bus times.

Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India

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Post by mangamadaiyan »

bhups wrote: post #79
kamaal wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are not asking anything for free. We will pay for a internet connection, for the bandwidth and for the speed. Once done, we wish to use that bandwidth and speed they way we like. But we are not going to pay extra money just to use a chat application over the internet, or make a VoIP call.

This isn't about you , though. It's about the millions of people who can't afford to pay.

Well, yes. Except, internet access isn't going to be the first problem they'd want to solve (or be solved).

Re: Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India

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Post by OJFord »

hrrsn wrote: post #93
kalleboo wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment thread makes me feel spoiled - I used to live in Sweden where my operator (Three) didn't have a 2G network, now I live in Japan where all the 2G networks are long-gone. Right now I'm visiting Australia where by far the best coverage is on Telstra's NextG 3G network (I'm 80 km away from the nearest supermarket yet am getting 6 MBit down on NextG with an antenna on the roof). I haven't seen 2G in a LONG ti…

New Zealand is similar, one carrier is 3G/4G only, one of them is 2G/3G/4G, and the newest one only operates their own network in major cities on 2G/3G/4G and roams onto the second largest outside of it. I frequently get 3G in very rural areas and I haven't been in a 2G only area for months.

Three in the UK is 3G/4G only - but is noticeably patchier than other providers, since if you 'go rural' it will just drop out rather than fall back on GSM.
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