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Root Metrics August update Birmingham, Leicester, Coventry
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Leicester - http://www.rootmetrics.com/uk/compare-operators/united-kingdom/leicester/leicester-august-2013/
Birmingham - http://www.rootmetrics.com/uk/compare-operators/united-kingdom/birmingham-uk/birmingham-august-2013/
Coventry - http://www.rootmetrics.com/uk/compare-operators/united-kingdom/coventry/coventry-august-2013/
Birmingham - http://www.rootmetrics.com/uk/compare-operators/united-kingdom/birmingham-uk/birmingham-august-2013/
Coventry - http://www.rootmetrics.com/uk/compare-operators/united-kingdom/coventry/coventry-august-2013/
- Vodafone bottom of the pile again - 7.5% of calls failing in Britain's 2nd city and the slowest download speeds in all 3 cities.
- Three and EE fastest average download speeds in all 3 cities
- Very strong call performance stats for O2 across the board.
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seems strange that they would drop away over a few months
Months ago they had 8% call failures in Cardiff. It's nothing new, if you look back through the reports from many months ago Vodafone has come bottom in most of them.
As an average of 1000s of tests throughout the area if they had upgraded masts and backhaul you'd have thought the average would be better?
Vodafone has got worse in a lot of areas. Pretty much every Report Vodafone is always last, just pick some random ones and you'll see what I mean. Bristol for example - last, Cardiff - last, Nottingham - last...
However, Vodafone dismissed the research as "flawed" and "laughable", arguing that the full methodology has not been shared and that several "obvious inconsistencies" are present.
http://www.cable.co.uk/news/vodafone-slams-flawed-mobile-broadband-speed-research-801596318/
Or maybe they want to argue about this PC Advisor test which they came out as performing very badly too.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzKQI2VsFLs#at=19
It's not, but if you discount EE then you see what the other networks perform like. It will be a level playing field soon as all 4 will have 4G.
What I am saying though is every other network performed better in the 3 locations tested in August for download speeds, Vodafone came last. Also they have an incredibly high call failure rate, 7.5% in Britain's 2nd city is terrible.
Terrible. Agree. Perhaps They should have tested EE for 3G for the time being to give us a better picture.
It'd give a much more realistic look at each networks performance compared to each other. At the moment EE's data services are ranked top in every city and that's purely down to their 4G service.
I think Lucan mentioned a couple of times that a lot of Vodafone's kit is really really old. Like 90s old. They just haven't kept up. They didn't see the data revolution coming and were caught out. Simple as that.
O2 did really badly in the PC Advisor tests :eek:
I wasn't surprised. It will spend most of its time on 2G
It would be interesting to see if O2 would still be so high up using the same phone as the others... and i'm not sure why they used another just for O2. I've put this to them before with no real answer.
It would be mirrored by O2 surely (equipment share etc).. but it isn't. It is more that the others which have improved and then Voda slipping slightly.
Three have more 3G spectrum? :eek: I'm sure EE just found some spare down the back of the sofa..
Rogue Orange masts would probably make it slightly slower overall than Three even with the slightly higher coverage which EE has.. thanks to those same creaky buggers.
My company iPad used to be on Voda.. every time i was in London it was a basically a Wifi only device!!
He said that Root metrics keep going back to the same cities like Leicester,Birmingham,Coventry,Cardiff,London etc as they all have good EE 4G coverage and guess what EE also pay Root metrics a lot of money to have the full detailed results including all the app user tests which has all the signal levels,exact locations and speeds. They also pay to license the logos and use their results in PR.
I am not sure if this is correct but does seem very possible and i do wonder why they have gone back to the same places so soon around 3 months later rather than moving onto new cities like Northampton,Bournemouth,Norwich,Plymouth,Ipswich,Aberdeen,Swindon and others all large cities but none have EE 4G coverage so I feel there may be something in these claims
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What do I know?? Nothing, that's what!
I appear to be living 10 years ago.
Sorry, you are of course correct. EE have s**t loads more than anyone else.
That's what I'm guessing.
Would make sense I guess.
Yes... that must be it....
na, it's possible. But then Vodafone haven;t exactly been great according to anyone recently.
Regardless of which cities they visit more often because a paying client requests it, the methodology and the results would be the same. It's a big US research company, they wouldn't ruin their reputation by altering the results. If a company believes in wrongdoing they can request a court order to get the raw data and prepare a legal case, but I think it's just sour grapes from Vodafone, especially when you look at the BBC Watchdog and the PC Advisor results.
You can't make up call failure rates out of nowhere and 7.5% in britain's 2nd city is truly an embarrassment, especially as it's an average, so at peak time it could be much worse (if it's low in the middle of the night).
does rather throw their credibility into doubt
I guess all those other independent survey groups must have been paid off by EE as well... :yawn:
Link us to this reliable source then?