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Vodafone 4G now live In some capacity in Aberdeen, Southend, Cambridge, Ipswich, Peterborough, Chelmsford, Northampton and Norwich.... it apppears that finally they have worked out that the Towns need doing before the villages !!! Lots of new places have appeared on their map yesterday also towns around Manchester. follow me @phonemast
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it apppears that finally they have worked out that the Towns need doing before the villages !!! Lots of new places have appeared on their map yesterday also towns around Manchester. follow me @phonemast
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Ohh good! Better coverage and service is heading my way at last! It's been long enough, although i'm more interested in 3G than 4G (cos i like to make phonecalls as well, since it is also a phone as well as mobile internet device
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#179 |
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Voda/o2 4G Now live in more of Essex including Rochford and Basildon also Bicester in Oxfordshire also Dundee and Berwick lots of masts being upgraded on the run up to xmas
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#180 |
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Does anyone know what Vodafones 4G rollout plan is in Devon? 2017 perhaps?
![]() Devon is beginning with Bideford Barnstable and Ilfracombe soon to be live |
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Any news on Plymouth?
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and Torquay
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Vodafone and O2 now have 4G in Derry, Northern Ireland
still waiting for Newry to get 4G
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If anyone is interested, Vodafone will be launching their 20GB SIM Only plan soon. It's going to be £42pm so not exactly great value. Also, Vodafone will be following O2 shortly and making all their 4G phones sell only with 4G plans. It's not a free 4G for all type thing, just a 4G included with most tariffs type thing. As I said. Vodafone have now launched their new SIM only plans with 500MB of 4G data from £14pm up to 20GB of data for £40pm. Vodafone will soon be selling their RED plans with 4G included at no extra cost as well as enabling all Vodafone RED customers for 4G free of charge. |
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As I said. Vodafone have now launched their new SIM only plans with 500MB of 4G data from £14pm up to 20GB of data for £40pm.
Vodafone will soon be selling their RED plans with 4G included at no extra cost as well as enabling all Vodafone RED customers for 4G free of charge. |
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#186 |
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500 for £14 , that's crap
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Vodafone 4G Continuing its rollout in Wales now available in Bridgend and more of Cardiff according to one of my Twitter followers @phonemast
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Why does O2 consider it okay to only provide GPRS on major A-roads and also on many motorways?
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Vo2da will 4G up all their masts in their agreed areas in time but I agree the M40 is shocking
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O2 and Vodafone's networks are just bizarre. On the M11 you go between GPRS and 4G, whereas EE has full 3G the whole way it's just weird!
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O2 and Vodafone's networks are just bizarre. On the M11 you go between GPRS and 4G, whereas EE has full 3G the whole way it's just weird!
T-Mobile pushed this back in 2006 and then in 2008 forming MBNL with 3 worked wonders for both, by 2010 the T and 3 networks work significantly better for any data services than the others. |
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I don't even think Orange was that bothered about 3G, or upgrading all sites to support higher speeds.
Even in London, Orange had loads of legacy sites with no more than EDGE. Teaming up with T Mobile and becoming part of MBNL worked wonders and Orange subscribers must have seen a real improvement in most places. Obviously not where old Orange sites were decommissioned! |
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I'm a few miles outside Folkestone and although we've always had good O2 coverage (2G then 3G900), the villages in the valley I'm in have never had any Vodafone coverage.
Going by Vodafone's coverage map, it says they are going to bring 3G and only 3G to the area in the next three months. Seems odd if you are adding a new transmitter to only put 3G on it? |
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Well I hope that you have all had a nice Christmas, I have and been busy driving all over the place to catch up with various family members and friends.
On Boxing Day I had a good catch up with my brother in law who works in Vodafone network operations and planning team, He was telling that Vodafone have some very big ambitious plans in 2015 for 4G. They are planning on increasing the rollout quite fast in conjunction with O2 they have over 100 planning applications ready to be lodged after the new year with a variety of councils and lots more that being looked at soon. So expect a lot more new places to gain 4G coverage with I think he said at least 85% by end of 2015. They are also revisiting lots of already covered areas and installing 2600 equipment for carrier aggregation and LTE cat6 speeds he did give me the list of places that will be getting 4G+ next cant remember them all but know Leicester,Coventry and Nottingham around me were on the list and again hoping to expand that further to at least 50% coverage. Also they are doing quite a bit of capacity increases early in the new year in busy areas of London,Birmingham,Manchester,Leeds and surprisingly Teeside as they can see that due to high usage speed has dropped so looking to fix ASAP the power is also due to be turned up on the base stations as well. I asked him about VOLTE he said that this will happen in some form in 2015 but is unsure on which handsets and if it will be on all the 4G network as seems some doubt about it in some areas. They are looking into getting 4G 2600 smalls cells installed in retail stores like they have for 3G this is waiting on the C&W network upgrades that are currently happening as they want to demo products better. They have a few new services planned based around VOLTE I think called Call+ with video messaging and mailboxes and upgrades to their message + service. On the business and corporate side few things changing there with increased service levels and services for them. It was a very interesting chat and update so things look promising with huge amounts of money being set for network upgrades. In fact he said one of the biggest issues they are having at the min is getting enough 4G equipment and qualified network engineering staff to do the upgrades. In the lead up to Christmas network freeze he was even spending two days a week out of the office doing network configurations on upgrades so the sites could go live. |
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Any upgrades are long overdue, really. I *may* have to give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
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I don't even think Orange was that bothered about 3G, or upgrading all sites to support higher speeds.
Even in London, Orange had loads of legacy sites with no more than EDGE. Quote:
Teaming up with T Mobile and becoming part of MBNL worked wonders and Orange subscribers must have seen a real improvement in most places. Obviously not where old Orange sites were decommissioned!
Yes, at this point Orange customers benefited from the T-mobile & 3 investment into MBNL and the prediction that smartphones would be popular.
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I've heard rumour that Voda will have 4G down here in Plymouth around April to June 2015.... Dunno if there is any truth in that though. Mind you, if it's 800MHz 4G the rollout should be better indoors than 3 and EE. Most places here you lose 4G if you go inside.
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#198 |
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I've heard rumour that Voda will have 4G down here in Plymouth around April to June 2015.... Dunno if there is any truth in that though. Mind you, if it's 800MHz 4G the rollout should be better indoors than 3 and EE. Most places here you lose 4G if you go inside.
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Well I hope that you have all had a nice Christmas, I have and been busy driving all over the place to catch up with various family members and friends.
On Boxing Day I had a good catch up with my brother in law who works in Vodafone network operations and planning team, He was telling that Vodafone have some very big ambitious plans in 2015 for 4G. They are planning on increasing the rollout quite fast in conjunction with O2 they have over 100 planning applications ready to be lodged after the new year with a variety of councils and lots more that being looked at soon. So expect a lot more new places to gain 4G coverage with I think he said at least 85% by end of 2015. They are also revisiting lots of already covered areas and installing 2600 equipment for carrier aggregation and LTE cat6 speeds he did give me the list of places that will be getting 4G+ next cant remember them all but know Leicester,Coventry and Nottingham around me were on the list and again hoping to expand that further to at least 50% coverage. Also they are doing quite a bit of capacity increases early in the new year in busy areas of London,Birmingham,Manchester,Leeds and surprisingly Teeside as they can see that due to high usage speed has dropped so looking to fix ASAP the power is also due to be turned up on the base stations as well. I asked him about VOLTE he said that this will happen in some form in 2015 but is unsure on which handsets and if it will be on all the 4G network as seems some doubt about it in some areas. They are looking into getting 4G 2600 smalls cells installed in retail stores like they have for 3G this is waiting on the C&W network upgrades that are currently happening as they want to demo products better. They have a few new services planned based around VOLTE I think called Call+ with video messaging and mailboxes and upgrades to their message + service. On the business and corporate side few things changing there with increased service levels and services for them. It was a very interesting chat and update so things look promising with huge amounts of money being set for network upgrades. In fact he said one of the biggest issues they are having at the min is getting enough 4G equipment and qualified network engineering staff to do the upgrades. In the lead up to Christmas network freeze he was even spending two days a week out of the office doing network configurations on upgrades so the sites could go live. I've noticed that Vodafone 4g has slowed down a lot in Glasgow in the past couple of months. I wish they would 4g the other local mast to me as well. Any news on 2600 in Glasgow. Must be soon surely. According to the Vodafone website most of the masts in Glasgow were revisited numerous times in recent months. Why the latest upgrades were not done during the initial upgrade period is beyond me. |
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If my office ever completes negotiations, I'm hoping we will get upgraded to 4G with voda, as their 2G network is great for voice, but almost no 3G when I'm driving around the country means I have to use my personal EE phone as a hotspot to get my corporate apps to work :-/ 4G would solve that.
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