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I believe they are just randomly chosen.
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O2 & Vodafone should have near blanket 3G coverage of the areas covered by Root Metrics. I find it hilarious that in 2013 ( andwith just over a year to go until 4G will be fairly blanket in the UK with one operator) and after both O2 & Voda being kicked in the nads by Ofcom for it that anyone can be defending them. O2 & Voda should be heavily covering the area tested with fairly new tech.. it is pathetic they are not.
EE & Three are leagues ahead in Glasgow & Edinburgh. Also can you supply me with a Speedtest link from O2 in Glasgow as i'm yet to see one above 30. (not being a D... just never seen one!) |
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I don't use the Speedtest.net app because it has historically given me consistently poorer results but I do use the crowdsourced Sensorly app. If you go on Sensorly you can publicly see all the speedtests I've done around Edinburgh. I seem to be the only one doing them at the moment so you'll be able to get a pretty good guess of where I live and where I've been solely from the coverage map :-/ [Edit] The "You are here" arrow probably doesn't help.
http://www.sensorly.com/map/4G/GB/Gr...10#q=EH9%201EF Note that the online map doesn't show speedtest results, you have to use the phone app for that - but that should take you to the right area. Here's what it should look like: http://qasdfdsaq.com/images/sensorly...6-17-30-22.png Here's a speedtest result: http://qasdfdsaq.com/images/sensorly...3-18-24-23.png And here's the cellsite details the test was done on: http://qasdfdsaq.com/images/sensorly...3-18-23-43.png As for 3G coverage around Edinburgh and Glasgow - you remember those are mostly rural areas right? Even EE/3 don't have blanket coverage according to their own coverage maps, which we all know to be ... er... "optimistic". The population density is still extremely low - it might be relatively high for Scotland but remember the entire country of Scotland combined has a population 40% lower than just London on its own. |
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Indeed. That doesn't mean that the random locations are not distributed to match the general population, e.g if 90% of the population is in the city, then 90% of the random locations will be within the city.
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