Originally Posted by Pedro_C:
“While Vodafone may be neck to neck with EE in the South East, in South Dorset (Weymouth area) things are rather different.
Vodafone (and O2) is mostly 2G, with EE having 3G everywhere and also a very significant amount of double speed 4G. Spent about half an hour today with 80mbps on the EE phone and gridlocked GPRS on Vodafone. At least O2 had reasonably snappy Edge. When in the major towns, Vodafone and O2 do have reasonable 3G coverage (though still a few 2G only parts), but the speed (2-10mbps) is a long way off 4G'd areas, not helped by at least one mast being only HSPA up to 14.4, rather than DCHSDPA 42.2. Additionally, the roads between the towns is GPRS, with EE having blanket 3G. .”
Similar story here at the other side of the country:
EE - 3G everywhere, and lots of 4G (lots of which is double speed too).
Three - 3G everywhere.
O2 - Mostly 2G, GPRS at that, but when you can get a 3G2100 signal it's quite snappy... 3G900, snails would beat it as it's overloaded.
Voda - other than EDGE instead of GPRS, and rather less 3G900, just as O2 above.
Originally Posted by Pedro_C:
“However, if Vodafone's 4G coverage is lacking, O2's is so very much worse. I'm not going to describe the coverage maps, but I think it's fair to say O2's 4G is almost completely non-existent, whereas I'd describe Vodafone's as "In progress", as they have quite significant coverage and superb speeds (75mbps) in some rural areas, such as Puddletown, with further planned upgrades.”
Well, can't differentiate between O2 and Vodafone 4G here - between them they have activated one mast for 4G within the wider area. Granted that's more than Three (so far) *shudder* but evidently, according to Vodafone anyway, that's it for the time being.