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Coincidence? Or O2 planning to go full crackpot and just use 2G instead of 4G VoLTE for giffgaff, PAYG, Tesco PAYG etc. when they FINALLY decide to close 3G?
Looks like the customer support might be a bit grim. But, on the back of that, can't hurt to try them as a second sim for a month, before porting a number in. Worst case, you cancel in the second month and you're down two pence
Typically I'm around Penylan/Roath and the city centre. Had a friend with me on EE and his speeds were way better - 200mbit/sec basically everywhere, when I was struggling to load webpages in many places because it was so congested.
Yes I'm aware of those apps (use netmonster myself) but it doesn't show 5G bands, only 2/3/4G. As far as I know you need a rooted phone to see the 5G bands on networksignalguru?
The 5G I get on o2 is really saturated through the day - maybe 5mbit/sec if you are lucky. Then late at night 120mbit/sec+. Seems a bit mad to me to add 5G to sites but not also add other 4G frequencies while you are it (as you mention with VF).
Annoyingly EE has the worst roaming offer now imo (especially non EU).
In London I am sure O2 are testing turning 3G off. I am pushed into EDGE which is useless so I hope in time this will become 4G
TESCO Mobile is only rolling it out for PAYM customers; as someone who tried their PAYG system recently I can confirm it (and the app) is archaic, am guessing it’s a slightly modified O2 PAYG platform.
Network Monitor app (on Android) will show connected 5G band and doesn't need rooting.
The more I think about it, I'm not so sure anymore. I'll have to put a 5G capable sim into my android phone and check again.
Can’t you dial *#0011# to show network information still?
I think that's a Samsung only thing.
https://www.cellmapper.net/map?MCC=234&MNC=10&type=LTE&latitude=51.52363329522538&longitude=-0.07986175499727394&zoom=18.12333333333333&showTowers=true&showIcons=true&showTowerLabels=true&clusterEnabled=true&tilesEnabled=true&showOrphans=false&showNoFrequencyOnly=false&showFrequencyOnly=false&showBandwidthOnly=false&DateFilterType=Last&showHex=false&showVerifiedOnly=false&showUnverifiedOnly=false&showLTECAOnly=false&showENDCOnly=false&showBand=0&showSectorColours=true&mapType=roadmap&darkMode=false
This is a cell near Liverpool Street, band 20 only. Lots of band 40 and small cells around.
Vodafone is the fastest here, 250Mbps+, they have 1, 7, 8 and 20. EE second fastest with 3 and 20, around 150Mbps. Three third with 1, 3 and 20, around 80Mbps.
O2 in dead last with only 10Mbps at most. It does work even at peak times but I can't understand the strategy here. It's very strange.
I seem to remember you could do it by putting a short code before the body of the text (*0#?) but that they never had the facility to receive them automatically, as was the case with the other networks.
My Huawei does. There's a little subtitle when I send an SMS, that says 'Sent' and then changes (normally after a second or two) to 'Delivered'.
In my experience recreational SMS is virtually dead, but 95% of my SMSs are 2FA related from banks etc.
Awful traffic managed speeds, no customer service. Dog awful.
Our work phones are Samsung androids and they automatically do a delivery report for sent SMS (even when to an iPhone, so not using RCS).
I wasn't going mad, NetMonitor does show connected 5G band.
Hi mate, what phone is that please? Is it good for network testing?
Lloyds Banking group and RBS already offer this (when it works).
That coincidentally ties in nicely with the thread I just opened! I for one will be very happy if at least financial institutions stop using SMS for 2FA.