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if you mean South Hams do you know what is happening with the Cornworthy app Six months is too long to decide and the MIP is being wound down now unfortunately!
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Its a good idea if their diabolical customer service let's you return the phone. In the south west of Scotland Vodafone is still a poor 4th. Surprisingly O2 are better than them. While it looks like they are doing upgrades in England, where as north of the border things have almost ground to a halt after the initial 4G upgrades to places that aready have 3G. Vodafone could be a good alternative but they are a letdown where I live
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Isn't that because O2 is doing part of the UK and Vodafone the rest? They're deliberately concentrating on certain areas as part of the Cornerstone agreement.
So which area is doing the best at the moment for upgrades? http://www.modaco.com/news/android/a...ing-deal-r770/ |
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I had a strange interesting thing happen at work in Market Harborough today on my Vodafone S6 for around 10 mins I had the VOLTE symbol enabled and incoming calls worked ok
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I had a strange interesting thing happen at work in Market Harborough today on my Vodafone S6 for around 10 mins I had the VOLTE symbol enabled and incoming calls worked ok
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Exciting developments for an anorak like myself today, while at work I noticed I only had a weak 3g signal when I turned off 4g, wanted to quickly download a 300mb file and my 4g signal comes from a mast recently upgraded on the edge of town, but as it's a massive mast and now the 800mhz signal cover the whole of West Telford it only manages speeds of 6-10mbps on a lunch time, while the local mast on Stafford Park has 2100mhz 3g which is barely used at all now so gives speeds of 24mbps. But it wasn't there when I looked, popped out in the car and yes it's getting upgraded!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sh58c5b5gl...145~2.jpg?dl=0 Not much to see when I took the photo, EE use the top panels, the Vodafone middle panels have been removed (you can just see the wiring hanging about) and one side of the O2 panels at the bottom are missing, will be Interesting to see how things progress over the next few days! |
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I had a very bad experience with Vodafone going back a few years and vowed never to go to them again but with the amount they are upgrading their network it would be foolish of me not to consider them when my contract finishes.
Does anyone think Vodafone will ever catch up to EE for coverage etc? |
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I had a very bad experience with Vodafone going back a few years and vowed never to go to them again but with the amount they are upgrading their network it would be foolish of me not to consider them when my contract finishes.
Does anyone think Vodafone will ever catch up to EE for coverage etc? When the Orange/T-Mobile network merger completed, I finally had complete network coverage on my drive home. The same journey always had better coverage on Vodafone (and O2). But swings and roundabouts - no network has complete coverage, there will sadly always be gaps here and there due to geography, buildings, where they can get planning accepted to stick up a mast, etc. |
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Used have my personally phone on Orange/EE, works phone on Vodafone.
When the Orange/T-Mobile network merger completed, I finally had complete network coverage on my drive home. The same journey always had better coverage on Vodafone (and O2). But swings and roundabouts - no network has complete coverage, there will sadly always be gaps here and there due to geography, buildings, where they can get planning accepted to stick up a mast, etc. Totally agree though about buildings, penetration, gaps here and there. |
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I had a very bad experience with Vodafone going back a few years and vowed never to go to them again but with the amount they are upgrading their network it would be foolish of me not to consider them when my contract finishes.
Does anyone think Vodafone will ever catch up to EE for coverage etc? EE have gone for more dense mast placement but higher frequency which means you may get higher speeds 90% of the time but there will be more not spots. They do have 800 to roll out which will fill in a lot of those but there are some places where they won't do 800 while VOD will probably do it on every mast they 4G. Difficult to look into the future as VO2 so badly neglected 3G, it's hard to believe that they will take rural coverage seriously. Bit it appears they are investing very heavily in the network, albeit, mostly upgrading previously 3G'd places first. For me, the one mast that covers the place I live and work is probably not going to get EE800 but is probably certain at some point to get VO2800. I don't know when that point is. So I either have to sign up to something that works pretty well now or wait and see if VO2 are going to put in a superior service. Generally, around here, EE blow everyone out of the water with 4G but it's really down to where you live and work day to day with consideration for coverage while travelling. I'll be sticking with my dual SIM phone for the time being. VOD 2G for calls and 3 123 PAYG for data. Works well even though the phone and OS are pants. |
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I think it depends what you want. IF Vodafone get their 800 coverage to the same level as their 2G900 and you have a VoLTE phone and they have got that working, that would be a very, very good network. Maybe not the ultimate speeds but probably rarely be out of a signal, even in very rural places.
EE have gone for more dense mast placement but higher frequency which means you may get higher speeds 90% of the time but there will be more not spots. They do have 800 to roll out which will fill in a lot of those but there are some places where they won't do 800 while VOD will probably do it on every mast they 4G. Difficult to look into the future as VO2 so badly neglected 3G, it's hard to believe that they will take rural coverage seriously. Bit it appears they are investing very heavily in the network, albeit, mostly upgrading previously 3G'd places first. For me, the one mast that covers the place I live and work is probably not going to get EE800 but is probably certain at some point to get VO2800. I don't know when that point is. So I either have to sign up to something that works pretty well now or wait and see if VO2 are going to put in a superior service. Generally, around here, EE blow everyone out of the water with 4G but it's really down to where you live and work day to day with consideration for coverage while travelling. I'll be sticking with my dual SIM phone for the time being. VOD 2G for calls and 3 123 PAYG for data. Works well even though the phone and OS are pants. |
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We often here which mobile phone network had the overall best coverage for various types of service from many sources and many people, but in the end it's a highly personal thing that depends on many personal factors and usage requirements, no one person can say to another with any confidence which is best for someone, and service levels and quality have changed so much in the past few years anyone saying service or coverage was bad when they tried it a few years ago might find things very different now or in the next few months.
I changed from three last year who were the best network in my locations to Vodafone, who if you look at coverage maps are a solid 3rd place for coverage or any kind, in Shropshire and South Cheshire behind O2 & EE, But for me I had a full usable 2g signal indoors and 4g upstairs at home last year, 3g full signal at work and 3g 90% albeit slow 900mhz on my commute with Vodafone vs threes no indoor coverage, very weak 3g with no throughput on my commute and a congested non responsive 3g & 4g at work, it was a no brainer really as those are the areas I use my phone most of the time. Now, Vodafone have improved things that I now have 3g/4g indoor coverage at home, on most of my commute and at work I have had 4g since the next year, with at least 4 more mast I pass coming online in the next few weeks.. But if you live in Devon, hants, big parts of Wales and wast anglea, you will probably still think them the devil incarnate and rightly so. Myself and other think the same about EE where I live as they have not upgraded nearly all the orange 2g masts and left the Mbnl masts on 2mb copper backhaul in the most part. |
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We often here which mobile phone network had the overall best coverage for various types of service from many sources and many people, but in the end it's a highly personal thing that depends on many personal factors and usage requirements, no one person can say to another with any confidence which is best for someone, and service levels and quality have changed so much in the past few years anyone saying service or coverage was bad when they tried it a few years ago might find things very different now or in the next few months.
I changed from three last year who were the best network in my locations to Vodafone, who if you look at coverage maps are a solid 3rd place for coverage or any kind, in Shropshire and South Cheshire behind O2 & EE, But for me I had a full usable 2g signal indoors and 4g upstairs at home last year, 3g full signal at work and 3g 90% albeit slow 900mhz on my commute with Vodafone vs threes no indoor coverage, very weak 3g with no throughput on my commute and a congested non responsive 3g & 4g at work, it was a no brainer really as those are the areas I use my phone most of the time. Now, Vodafone have improved things that I now have 3g/4g indoor coverage at home, on most of my commute and at work I have had 4g since the next year, with at least 4 more mast I pass coming online in the next few weeks.. But if you live in Devon, hants, big parts of Wales and wast anglea, you will probably still think them the devil incarnate and rightly so. Myself and other think the same about EE where I live as they have not upgraded nearly all the orange 2g masts and left the Mbnl masts on 2mb copper backhaul in the most part. |
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I was saying to my friend it's a shame there isn't a MVNO which can use any network and picks up the strongest signal be it O2, EE etc and uses that so no matter where you are you are guaranteed coverage.
http://the.pebble.network But the prices mean that you would only use that service if the extra coverage was extremely important. |
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There is
http://the.pebble.network But the prices mean that you would only use that service if the extra coverage was extremely important. |
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Ooh live and learn and yeah crazy expensive and just found out there is another one as well www.jump.co.uk.
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There is
http://the.pebble.network But the prices mean that you would only use that service if the extra coverage was extremely important. You're best off having a CTIL SIM and an MBNL SIM on PAYG, and go from there. |
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Specially tailored plans? Does it also run fitness centres?
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Specially tailored means very expensive!
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if you mean South Hams do you know what is happening with the Cornworthy app Six months is too long to decide and the MIP is being wound down now unfortunately!
So, not sure really but it seems that SHDC have given it the green light which in theory gives that application 5 years to 'start works' before it expires. Looks like it's a money thing more than the council holding it up. I may be wrong but only repeating comments made at a public meeting which is recorded. |
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Update. I spoke to a person who know's what's going on tonight and he said that the application has been approved and was surprised this wasn't reflected on the net. He said the issue was that the developer ran away and that the money was no longer there. Apparently, people in that area are on at him all the time about it.
So, not sure really but it seems that SHDC have given it the green light which in theory gives that application 5 years to 'start works' before it expires. Looks like it's a money thing more than the council holding it up. I may be wrong but only repeating comments made at a public meeting which is recorded. |
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So it appears that they took too long over making a decision and as I said the mip us being wound down (God knows why) unfortunately so it may not get done.
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Maybe the networks could just pay for it between them seems a big waste especially as the area is so poor at the moment and unlike other mips some people actually live there!
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Maybe the networks could just pay for it between them seems a big waste especially as the area is so poor at the moment and unlike other mips some people actually live there!
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Is Voda's coverage checker broken for anyone else?
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