O2 had a 3G/4G C-O-W at Snetterton racing circuit today providing decent data rates at the venue. ~25Mbps download.

Did it work throughout the day or drop out when it got busy?

Worked throughout. EE however was dead in respects of data!

Now at oulton park it was good until the main bulk of the 44,000+ arrived and then the mast just gave out full coverage but no data.

Confirmed, a mast went live sometime on Friday covering a good chunk of central/West MK, took long enough!

I must be behind the curve here but I just noticed Vodafone are now including 4G as standard on all new plans but also noticed the simple only prices seem to have done up quite a bit £40 for 20gb.. seems steep.

You're basically paying £10 extra to get 'free' Spotify or Sky etc.

As I do pay £10 a month for Spotify, that means it's technically £10 cheaper. If you don't, or don't want any of the 'free' services, it's quite a bit - given it was £10 cheaper not so long ago anyway. Hopefully they'll do another promotion in the future.

North Norfolk over the weekend. O2, very little coverage at all. When I did get coverage on GPRS data was unusable, on 3G it was deadly slow and required the patience of a saint to get even a simple webpage to load. By comparison Three also had patchy coverage, but where there was 3G, it was at least usable.

Cheers Jon, I must have been looking at the prices a few months ago when 20gb was around £30 on Vodafone, the Spotify deal was the reason I started looking into Vodafone in the first place as I alternate between subscribing to them and Google music most months. And would save a bit of cash or not loose any as I pay three £20 at the moment and £10 to Spotify, but £40 is a bit steep..

That's what's stopping me moving from three at the moment, even though alot of the time the data doesn't work and I find myself standing on a chair with one arm in the air to get a signal you can get something eventually in most places.
Vodafone and 02s upgrade program seems in a way to make things seem worse as you've seen through the looking glass so to speak, making it hard to move from a area with good data to one with nothing.
They do have a lot of work to do to upgrade things and they are doing it, it just isn't happening quick enough in enough areas.
In a way Vodafone/O2 & EE would have been better adopting each others 4get roll out strategy really, as EE have a good 3g network in most places delivering good data which ment they could have worked upgrading a whole area to 4G then moving on, people there get the full benefits of 4G and others still get the full data service they've always had.
Vodafone/O2 could do with upgrading a few masts everywhere to at least get some data out there and work improving speeds later with other masts.

I can confirm this, picking 2 bars up in kiln farm, although it drops back to 3G as soon as I touch the phone. That said, new antennas have appeared in the mast in kiln farm, so seems that this could be 4g soon, unless it's a three antenna.. EE have had 4g on this mast for ages.

I never understood why Vodafone activates villages and small towns before Milton Keynes. Villages around Leighton buzzard seem to have better 4g than the town itself too.

It took 2 or three days for the 4G to appear on a mast in my local town after the new flat panel antennas were installed, O2 appeared about a week or 2 later I think.

On Monday I took my young son to London for the day to see the sights and was quite impressed with how much 4G+ coverage Vodafone now have across the capital with most of the big tourist sites now having the carrier aggregation upgraded coverage and when not there was 2600mhz signal.

The speeds were good although not hitting super high speeds I think the fastest I got was 101Mb which was just as fast as I got on EE using double speed Iphone6,work phone My wife has S6 like me but on EE I did get 129Mb using their 4G+ so it shows what can be done with the right backhaul and capacity.

I just wish that Vodafone would keep to their promises from last year and roll out 4g+ to more places outside of London I know that they have been busy adding the 2600mhz layer but seem very reluctant to enable it even in busy areas.

Looks like o2 may be making further improvements in Leighton Buzzard.
Lost o2 indoor signal round here, then noticed that the old antennas were missing from the local mast when I drove past.

This evening, noticed that the new panel antennas had been installed, but still no indoor signal. Wonder if better 4G is incoming...

This area, o2 always had OK 2g and 3g indoor coverage while Voda never did, so hopefully they join o2 on this newly upgraded mast. (Three and EE indoor coverage also sucks here)

iOS 8.4.1 has been released

Things are getting better. I was thinking today I've used way more data this month, which appears possible because the phone has a data connection in more places.

The catch up process is starting to happen. Looking at the VF predicted map for Staffs / Cheshire in 3 months time looma very impressive. It's not that bad now, just need gaps filling in.

Voda Definitely cracking on with the rollout and upgrading some big 2G Only sites to 3G ahead of the 4G upgrade

Yes can't really complain about the effort put in now it's in my area. Now the moan is the few gapa still to be done - howveer it works and its been done properly.

Problem is this will take years as loom how many areas are still waiting for cornerstone

Here is the mast I mentioned in my previous message.
This is the o2 mast, complete with new antennas, taken just now:
http://i62.tinypic.com/swv0qq.png

Here is a street view showing the old arrangement. (I assume o2 are at the top, vodafone at the bottom)
Does anyone recognise which network would use the tiny mast behind it? (if EE, the coverage from it is dire)
http://i61.tinypic.com/dmuzjc.png

There is also a small streetlight site around the corner from here, which I guess could be shut down.
http://i58.tinypic.com/2censxc.png

Isnt that just a street light?

In that location, originally there was an O2 mast 2G/3G / Voda 3G only and a 3 3G only mast.

The small streetlamp is an old Orange 2G only site that has probably already been shut down.

jayteedc

4G is definitely coming to Leighton Buzzard could be on as soon as this weekend!

Great! There is a weak 4G signal outside in the south of town already (Mcdonalds end)
I always noticed that Vodafone is non existent indoors here, while o2 had 2G/3G indoors, so hopefully this latest upgrade will bring Vodafone indoors, maybe even 4G.

Next wish for Vodafone - To get off GPRS only across the whole of Ampthill. (o2 manages weak 3G) Anyone know if 3G/4G is coming to Ampthill, Bedfordshire? (Or decent 2G in the town centre even?)

I have been testing out the speeds on 4 and 3G at home in Wakefield City Centre, to my astonishment yesterday I was getting 9mb down and 2-3mb up on 3G900!!! When I looked at the carrier info on the iPhone it said it was MIMO, instead of single carrier does this mean Vodafone are running DC-900? Or is that a different thing all together? Thanks

I was given a sim card yesterday from a friend who works in Vodafone which came with 50GB of data to test for 30 days came with some mins and texts too and I'm quite impressed with their 4g coverage almost full coverage 4g on my bus journey to work where EE and Three both struggle along the route with no signal at all. At home speeds are great q lot better than EE which I get around max 20Mbps on Vodafone getting around 40-50Mbps, although since Three has upgraded all the masts around my home to 4G I'm getting close to 70Mbps with them.