Originally Posted by lightspeed2398:
“Solid point you made Devon on the forum. They need to upgrade them which will be a harder challenge for them than for EE. As much as we all seem to be pushing EE as the network of the future at the moment I think we have to support Vodafone a bit because the competition will keep EE in check price wise and network upgrading wise.”
Its started. At my mates house in Fleet, where for the last 18months he has had almost no signal for EE (since old Orange mast turned off in his road), where Vodafone and O2 also had no signal - things changed today.
Took my iPhone 6 round and was amazed to find I had 4G (three or four 'blobs') everywhere in his flat. Speedtest.net managed 18mbps download and 1.1mbps upload. Turning off 4G gave awful 3G, but turning off 3G gave very very good 2G.
I can only assume CTIL has arrived and upgraded a relatively near mast to 800mhz 4G with strong 900mhz 2G with CSFB to 2G enabled. Probably means O2 is now workable.
Three and EE are useless here, and my mate is an EE customer due to WiFi calling, and only just signed up for a 12month SIM only deal - but if EE's 800 doesn't make similar benefits, he may switch to Vodafone.
Pretty sure nobody here would have said that 2 months ago, nevermind 1. :-/