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I think they are hatching a plan with Hutch if it goes through, as part of the closed doors negotiation to get the deal to go through. I know Tesco are keen to sell and as I mentioned before, things like this and others are more likely to get the sale approved.
If they sold to Virgin then it would be win win all around. |
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#2277 |
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O2 4G finally up in running in my area, What I like about this is the pay as you go customers seem to be stuck on 3G meaning 4G is not oversubscribed. On 3G we were lucky to get 0.5mb, now on 4G its around 16-18mb which is decent enough.
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#2278 |
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Yeah I very rarely get more than about 20Mbps down on O2. I've once got 50 but only once.
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Ours was done in August, what a difference it's made too, only two more legacy ones around Wakefield centre to do as far as I'm aware and its completed. None have 2.6ghz live but doesn't mean it's installed I suppose.
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#2280 |
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Was referring to this
https://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Netw...p/usingnetwork I admit though it's not quite as I remember it, I'm sure there used to be more to it than that and updates on some of the faults. |
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It says for my postcode " were working on 3G mast in your area " makes me laugh there's only one 2G mast here next mast is 4 miles away and that's 2G as well only 3G is city of Gloucester 7 miles away!
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It says for my postcode " were working on 3G mast in your area " makes me laugh there's only one 2G mast here next mast is 4 miles away and that's 2G as well only 3G is city of Gloucester 7 miles away!
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#2283 |
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I see the community "champion" is still misleading people...
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Which 2 are left round Wakefield Skippy? Thank you
My mistake there is another site so 3, on top of Wakefield house behind trinity walk, o2 has a site which hasn't been done yet, although I've seen some people up there later. Could be 3, as the newly upgraded 3 site up there is offline due a fault and will be for quite a while so I'm told. |
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Gotta say, when you have 900MHz on all the masts a long a road, the coverage just goes on and on.
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#2286 |
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Gotta say, when you have 900MHz on all the masts a long a road, the coverage just goes on and on.
.It's when you don't have masts that coverage becomes a problem .
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You could say the same for any frequency, if you have 2600Mhz on all the masts along a road the coverage would just go on and on
.It's when you don't have masts that coverage becomes a problem .All operators use the same location for their Higham Ferrers masts - all operators have 3G2100. MBNL and Vodafone use a good location for their masts - just on the outskirts of Raunds village. MBNL is 3G2100, Voda is 2G900 only (why?!) However, O2 also use 3G2100 for Raunds; though their mast is situated about half a mile away from the village, the other side of the BP petrol Station at Raunds. As such, there are coverage gaps along there, due to 3G2100 not having enough of a reach. If you're going to use 3G2100 (or 2G1800/4G1800, particularly for EE/Three) then make sure your masts are close enough together, or the power is turned up enough. And anyway, seeing as most people have smartphones these days, I'd have thought that 3G would be seen as a minimum coverage spec for all networks... |
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Hopefully with CTIL the O2 coverage will improve shortly
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Hopefully with CTIL the O2 coverage will improve shortly
![]() Btw, I have got a Giffgaff SIM that I can use to test out the O2 network, and I'll have to try and get a Vodafone SIM somehow, to test their network. |
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With giffgaff, 4mbps on 4G is roughly equivalent to 50mbps of actual speed from mast.
3mbps on 3G is roughly 32mbps. 0.2mbps on 3G is roughly equal to 2mbps real. 2G speeds seem to roughly replicate real. So basically multiply the giffgaff downlink speed by 10 and you'll be roughly looking at what an O2 contract can do. |
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If you're going to use 3G2100 (or 2G1800/4G1800, particularly for EE/Three) then make sure your masts are close enough together, or the power is turned up enough.
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And anyway, seeing as most people have smartphones these days, I'd have thought that 3G would be seen as a minimum coverage spec for all networks...
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With giffgaff, 4mbps on 4G is roughly equivalent to 50mbps of actual speed from mast.
3mbps on 3G is roughly 32mbps. 0.2mbps on 3G is roughly equal to 2mbps real. 2G speeds seem to roughly replicate real. So basically multiply the giffgaff downlink speed by 10 and you'll be roughly looking at what an O2 contract can do. From memory, o2 was around 12-15, Tesco around 10-12, Lyca was 6-8 and Giffgaff around 2-4Mbps. Even on 3G, Giffgaff was around 1Mbps and o2 was 7-8Mbps (I can't remember the Tesco and Lyca speeds on 3G). |
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My phone today had 3-4 bars of VOD 2G900 in a traditional Devon bunker vs. zero bars of 3 3G from the same mast. Get 800 out boys. It's the answer.
You know it. Turn it on. |
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My phone today had 3-4 bars of VOD 2G900 in a traditional Devon bunker vs. zero bars of 3 3G from the same mast. Get 800 out boys. It's the answer.
You know it. Turn it on. |
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A big mast in Yeovil is being upgraded this week is a whooper about 40m
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Yes with those tall masts 900MHz coverage is brilliant, especially when travelling I've found.
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Vodafone 4G now live in Padstow and surrounding area
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My phone today had 3-4 bars of VOD 2G900 in a traditional Devon bunker vs. zero bars of 3 3G from the same mast. Get 800 out boys. It's the answer.
You know it. Turn it on. And I know what I'd rather have
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I can never get throughout at below -105dBm on 3 3G. What you'll want to look at is the ASU as that will tell you if the connection can actually be used for anything.
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Yeah in my experience EE3G is a bit pointless from -105 to -110.
No way it would ever work at -111. My Huawei router use to connect at between -99 and -102dBm and when at 102 it would get very dodgy and intermittent. In complete contrast I can put it in the kitchen where no phone will show 2G1800 let alone 4G1800 and it will pull in -124dBm 4G1800 and do about 8 meg down and 0.5 up!!! Bonkers. |
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