Originally Posted by wavejockglw:
“Both sould be offering about the same coverage now as they reached an agreement to share transmission sites in all of the European countries both companies operate in. The mast sharing will save both companies a lot of money and put them in a similar position to T-Mobile/3/Orange who own one single company called Mobile Broadband UK which provides all of them with their transmission needs from shared sites.
All the networks still have separate networks (their own range of frequencies) but in the UK there should only be two distinct differences in coverage. 3/Orange/T-Mobile or Telefonica02/Vodafone.”
Sites, not networks, both have different network equipment, different networks with different peering agreements, different backbones, different capacities, different terms and conditions on what they allow and don't allow and as far as I'm aware they never said they would share all sites, most are still separate from what I can tell.
It's just not that simple wavejockglw, for a start 1 has a lot more customers than the other and therefore needs more cell sites for capacity reasons.
If 1 network has 15 million customers and the other has 10 then the one that has 15 needs more cell sites to deliver the same capacity / quality of service.
My recommendation of out of the 2 would be Vodafone as they have a superior 3G network.