Okey, I live in Helsinki Finland. We have had 3G for about two years. Well, sort of. Even to this day the coverage is not 100% in Helsinki city centre. Not at least with my current operator Saunalahti, which basicly uses the same network as Elisa.
Before I used Dual mode at the network settings. That doesn't however work too well if you want to maximise the download speeds and the 3G experience. Dual mode uses both gsm-edge and wdca (or UMTS or 3G) -frequencies and the device decides which ever to use according to the signal strength.
You start to appreciate how complicated these devices are when you notice that on places where the 3G coverage is weak and the thing starts to think that may by it should use the edge or even gprs connection now. It slows down the browsing experience and wrecks havoc on the battery life.
I noticed that with my N73 this thinking starts at a point where there still actually is 3 G coverage, but it's weakening. Lately I have been experimenting with the 3G-UMTS mode only. First impressions are positive. I don't know about dropped calls (and I don't mind a few dropped work related calls..), but the browsing seems to be as fast as it should be on a regular basis.
No thinking required!
Don't try this outside metropolitan (Hah!) areas.
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