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Great service from Vodafone in and around an extremely busy Liverpool yesterday, good speeds available throughout the day and night in the Liverpool one shopping zone and restaurant & bar areas throughout the day and night, didn't see any carrier aggregation on my G4 but a good job was done spreading loads around 800,2100 & 2600mhz with 10mhz available on 2100mhz 4g (band 1) where my phone seemed to sit most the day, couldn't have done this 12 months ago.
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#4352 |
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Now on o2 in Liverpool the other week it was clear how congested it was. It ground Tina halt at times and slow at others.
Last year in Manchester centre over the festive period Vodafone were grinding to a halt in many places with sub 5mbps speeds as they were only using 10mhz of band 20, things seem better now they are using the extra bandwidth from band 1 I guess that's what makes the difference. |
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Did anyone see my Tweet showing Vodafone's 4G at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park? Averaging 60,000 visitors a day over six weeks.
https://twitter.com/jmcomms/status/802556211946131456 Extra capacity brought in, while EE and Three didn't. EE 4G 0.5Mbps or nothing. Three nothing either. |
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How do I know what band I'm on. Is there a way of telling with a Galaxy S7 Edge?
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How do I know what band I'm on. Is there a way of telling with a Galaxy S7 Edge?
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#4356 |
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Did anyone see my Tweet showing Vodafone's 4G at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park? Averaging 60,000 visitors a day over six weeks.
https://twitter.com/jmcomms/status/802556211946131456 Extra capacity brought in, while EE and Three didn't. EE 4G 0.5Mbps or nothing. Three nothing either. Does CTIL also apply in these cases? So does O2 also benefit from the temporary Vodafone network in Hyde Park or the small cell infrastructure at airports? |
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How do I know what band I'm on. Is there a way of telling with a Galaxy S7 Edge?
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Does CTIL also apply in these cases? So does O2 also benefit from the temporary Vodafone network in Hyde Park or the small cell infrastructure at airports?
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How do I know what band I'm on. Is there a way of telling with a Galaxy S7 Edge?
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For a continuous display of the LTE band in use, install "LTE Discovery" from the Play store. Go to Settings, enable Signal Overlay, and check "LTE band".
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so, I got my 50gb vodafone data sim today, popped it into my phone, and H+ signal shows... no 4g, just my luck
coverage checker said it should ofbeen good o2, ee and three have 4g here no problems is there a way to try and force 4g? |
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#4361 |
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so, I got my 50gb vodafone data sim today, popped it into my phone, and H+ signal shows... no 4g, just my luck
coverage checker said it should ofbeen good o2, ee and three have 4g here no problems is there a way to try and force 4g? |
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#4362 |
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Sometimes, depends on the phone; what phone do you have?
but I stuck it in samsung galaxy s6 and no 4g there o2, three and ee work fine |
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#4363 |
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If O2 has 4G I would expect Vodafone to have it too, but I think it has to be provisioned and you may get access soon (automatically) perhaps with a restart.
This is how it worked on PAYG SIMs for some time, as you could have plans that were 3G only. |
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If O2 has 4G I would expect Vodafone to have it too, but I think it has to be provisioned and you may get access soon (automatically) perhaps with a restart.
This is how it worked on PAYG SIMs for some time, as you could have plans that were 3G only. lets hope so though getting 5 bars of 3g signal too |
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#4365 |
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When I got 4G PAYG SIMs they took a while to connect to 4G. That was over a year ago, but it is just a quirk of their system.
Fingers crossed. |
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You'll need to top up the Vodafone PAYG SIM to use 4G or add a Big Value Bundle.
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When I got 4G PAYG SIMs they took a while to connect to 4G. That was over a year ago, but it is just a quirk of their system.
Fingers crossed. |
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Update : works now, 4 bars.. 23mbits.. im happy
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#4369 |
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I'm fairly sure O2 are only using 10mhz Band 20 (800mhz) across Liverpool vs Vodafone who have 10mhz of band 20 + 10mhz of band 1 (2100mhz) across the city and 20mhz of band 7 (2600mhz) in some places, that's potentially 40mhz of bandwidth available on Vodafone vs 10mhz on 02,
Last year in Manchester centre over the festive period Vodafone were grinding to a halt in many places with sub 5mbps speeds as they were only using 10mhz of band 20, things seem better now they are using the extra bandwidth from band 1 I guess that's what makes the difference. |
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Deffo echo that must be case and proof if people need it, how important bandwidth is.
After all they get the same 4g/3g coverage levels as Vodafone thanks to cornerstone, the average user has no understanding of bandwidth or how it works so even if they were told probably wouldn't look much past coverage maps when making contract decisions.. Might be a learning curve for many.. |
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Vodafone sent me some tasty marshmallows this morning to celebrate being voted best voice and data network in London (as well as being on a par with its leading competitor, which I assume is EE, UK wide).
A while ago I would have laughed hysterically at the thought of Vodafone being best for data in London, but all that work on 2CA and 3CA, plus small cells, seems to be paying dividends. The same approach has already rolled out in Birmingham, Manchester and elsewhere and while you may not get the same killer 200Mbps speed tests from the early 4G days, my experience is still mostly positive. EE has the coverage in London, but so many areas are saturated and you can easily get down to speeds of just 1Mbps at times. And that's despite EE investing in rolling out 4G+ to more places, and 800 coming. 4G is starting to mature and now we're seeing how there's a constant need to keep ahead. In addition, UK wide Vodafone came out top for voice. Again, that doesn't surprise me but it could be a short lived celebration if EE will have over 4,000 800 sites active this time next year. |
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Some positive news for Beacon in my area as things have really started to come together with the site share giving contiguous coverage to various sections of main roads that never had it and towns such as Moreton in Marsh, Shipston on Stour and Chipping Campden gaining 4g coverage.
Travelling he country I noticed lots of coverage has appeared on the A14 between the M6 and A1 and dare not mention it but I believe Thrapston is getting some coverage to the SW this week. The biggest bug bear I had was the patchy nature of upgrades where you would switch from Beacon to Legacy and back again which has significantly improved, if they keep up this pace I will have to change my mind and say that by the end of 2017 they will have a decent 4g footprint countrywide. |
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Tried a Voda sim in the Stamford and Rutland area over the past week. Mostly 2G GPRS still with islands of 3G/4G. It seems encredible that my county town of Oakham is still GPRS. Some old school 3G with barely any throughput about in Stamford so surfing is painful at peak periods.
Coverage along the A1 is very good with integrated O2 sites filling the gaps in the old Voda network. EE rule the roost though with nearly all sites 4Ged now. |
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Some positive news for Beacon in my area as things have really started to come together with the site share giving contiguous coverage to various sections of main roads that never had it and towns such as Moreton in Marsh, Shipston on Stour and Chipping Campden gaining 4g coverage.
Travelling he country I noticed lots of coverage has appeared on the A14 between the M6 and A1 and dare not mention it but I believe Thrapston is getting some coverage to the SW this week. The biggest bug bear I had was the patchy nature of upgrades where you would switch from Beacon to Legacy and back again which has significantly improved, if they keep up this pace I will have to change my mind and say that by the end of 2017 they will have a decent 4g footprint countrywide. |
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EE, O2 and Vodafone will all have a great 4G footprint this time next year. Not sure about Three.
Another year on Three with 800 being raised in priority may help. Do think they've given up a bit, although they seem to be more in fill focused than before. |
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