Talk:Norway/@comment-27968765-20160605153403

Just wanted to report on my experiences in Norway. Went to the MyCall store in Oslo, just NW of the train station (Oslo S).

Paid 174 NOK for the prepaid data SIM with the 3 GB of data.

Initially on my iPad Air 2, it was showing 3G, which wasa huge letdown for me. The store clerk tried entering the APN for the LTE section in the iOS Settings app and rebooted but still 3G.

I figured 3G is better than nothing so I left. My hotel was just down the block from the MyCall store yet later that evening, I checked in my hotel room and it was LTE but speed test only showed about 10 Gbps, not that much more than when it was showing 3G. I wondered if this was speed-limited LTE like the products on Telia and Telenor.

But as I went around to different parts of Norway (Bergen and Alesund), it displayed LTE most of the time and I did speed tests at different points and the speeds looked good, though I didn't do any heavy downloading until the end of my trip. But this was one of the best results, at AES airport:

Test Date: Jun 3, 2016 5:35 AM Download: 70.94 Mbps Upload: 28.34 Mbps Ping: 50 ms Connection Type: Cellular Server: Trondheim External IP: 188.149.0.165 Internal IP: 10.141.149.109 Latitude: 62.5586 Longitude: 6.1154 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=62.558590,6.115436

Tethering was fine and coverage in the cities was great, even inside hotel rooms with thick stone walls. I took a couple of fjord tours, such as the Naerofjord near Bergen and Geiranger near Alesund where coverage would drop on these ferry cruises. This was in places where there were no towns nearby so fairly reasonable for their to be no coverage in those areas.

My iPhone with a USA T-Mobile SIM connected to the Telenor network and it seemed to get at least Edge coverage in these remote areas, so that you can make calls if needed but not mobile broadband.

Pretty decent value, around $20-21 for 3 GB of LTE data. I believe it was good for a month.

The only possible negative is that video streaming was kind of inconsistent, despite supposedly good LTE coverage in OSL airport. For what the Speed Test indicated, the video quality was fairly poor but that may be more about the app. I was using, which in this case was streaming from my DVR back home in the US, not some public streaming service like Youtube.