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Doesn't seem to be linked to existing G1800 sites - mainly rolling in areas of high traffic on L800 which is causing congestion to give 15MHz CA as already mentioned on this thread.
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#1177 |
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I wonder what sort of speeds you are likely to get on a CA mast.
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Doesn't seem to be linked to existing G1800 sites - mainly rolling in areas of high traffic on L800 which is causing congestion to give 15MHz CA as already mentioned on this thread.
As usual I'll be happy to test it in Manchester once reports of it start coming in. |
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Looks like a lot of older phones will work great with O2 4G+ as it is within the cat.4 LTE boundaries. Not a bad move at all. Hopefully they roll this out even more cities then. Manchester would be another great addition.
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Out of interest, how many CA phones are Cat 4 only? I didn't think there was that many. iPhone 6... Others?
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I thought there were a lot of phones that were Cat 4 but didn't do aggregation so wouldn't be of any use on O2 for 4G+.
I'm no expert on the specs of different phones though. |
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I thought there were a lot of phones that were Cat 4 but didn't do aggregation so wouldn't be of any use on O2 for 4G+.
I'm no expert on the specs of different phones though. |
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New Apple update out 9.0.1
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Big upgrade works due or a fault on the maintenance checker?
After checking the network coverage & maintenance page today there seems to be maintenance work planned for tomorrow (24th September) over most of North Shropshire and parts of Staffordshire, I checked, Woore, Betley, market Drayton, loggerheads, Baldwins gate and Shifnal, all came up with the same report... |
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Vodafone 4G now rolling out in Exeter
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Vodafone 4G now rolling out in Exeter
Having said all that, my mast is scheduled for 3 maintenance today and everything seems to be off, VOD as well. |
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I always got EDGE in my house with Vodafone and GPRS with O2. In addition, I always got very, very weak 3G with Vodafone and no 3G at all with O2.
Today I noticed that EDGE on O2 is now available (identical signal strength to Vodafone), as is weak 3G. I can only assume Vodafone and O2 are now sharing the same mast. |
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#1188 |
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Eventually they will share the majority of their masts
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Thanks for the info. Hopefully they roll it out to other cities with reasonable speed, they might even enable it faster than Vodafone are 2600MHz at the moment.
As usual I'll be happy to test it in Manchester once reports of it start coming in. |
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Someone is working on a Vodafone monopole in Truro (next to County Hall and Sainsburys). I wonder if it is being 4G'd. There were a load of cones, a tipper with highway maintenance markings, all that sort of thing, so I wonder if there's major work going on.
What's more surprising is that the actual tech seems to be working out of a car, no van with a company name on it |
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I was in Crewe today and have to say the coverage is really good. The 3g now goes from the town centre of Crewe all the way into many of the villages in rural Cheshire. They really have upped their game.
Yes they are not an EE yet, however what has happened over a short space of time is very impressive. |
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I've spotted L1800 on the Killingworth mast in North Tyneside. The only one I've found in the north east!. I wouldn't have thought it a particularly massive capacity area. No sign of it (yet) on masts in Newcastle central..
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You mean L1800 on o2?
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Anyone know how many 2600 masts there are now on Voda's network. I'm considering switching from Three but I'll only do it if I know there's action on that front.
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[QUOwTE=interactiv-uk;79802138]Yup..[/quote]
Argh right ok, got a little exited thinking Vodafone might be doing the same despite all the spectrum they have.... |
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I've spotted L1800 on the Killingworth mast in North Tyneside. The only one I've found in the north east!. I wouldn't have thought it a particularly massive capacity area. No sign of it (yet) on masts in Newcastle central..
If that's true then the Vodafone cornerstone areas may be in for a long wait. |
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O2 Ericsson Cornerstone area / Vodafone Ericsson Cornerstone area? I'm fairly new to the world of cornerstone. What's this?
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I was in Crewe today and have to say the coverage is really good. The 3g now goes from the town centre of Crewe all the way into many of the villages in rural Cheshire. They really have upped their game.
Yes they are not an EE yet, however what has happened over a short space of time is very impressive. Now I just wish they would complete the upgrade of the O2 mast I pass on the A53 at Hodnet, the 4g cabinet was delivered almost 2 months ago but still waiting for a mast upgrade
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Truro now live #Vo2 #4G apparently
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O2 Ericsson Cornerstone area / Vodafone Ericsson Cornerstone area? I'm fairly new to the world of cornerstone. What's this?
The country is split up into halves (except London) with Vodafone in charge of upgrading one half and O2 the other, or at least that was the plan in 2014, I'm not so sure about now. Vodafone use Huawei and Ericsson baseband kit, O2 use Ericsson and NSN kit. Interactiv-uk can probably help me out here, it is actually his post back in 2014 I'm referring to now. |
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