Originally Posted by mobilecentre:
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On one stretch of the A44 you actually drive within a 100m of a 2G900 site and a 2G2100 site and handsets will cling to 3G / 4G coming from a few miles away effectively ignoring them.
You will be on a call (using the new CTIL site) which will drop and go no service then find the legacy 2G and full 2G signal.”
These days I find quite often my call drops down to 2g after a while instead of staying on 3g,it normally swaps back soon as the calls finished unless it subsequently changes to an old 2g mast in the call where it sits forever unless I move after the calls finished..
With the priority settings talked about are they set up within the phone carrier settings or are the controlled in some way by the mast your on?
I ask regarding the masts I talked about before near me in market Drayton, with its one main old untouched 2g & 3g 2100mhz mast and the cornerstone 3g/4g mast at the edge of town, when you drive into town passing the cornerstone mast 1st you get 3g then switches to 4g, even when the signals still around -90db it will switch to the slower older mast which is stronger, is this because although the 4g is priority number 1 the old mast doesn't know it exists (no sib19) and thinks 3g 2100mhz is priority number 1 and as it's stronger it wins, despite only giving a max of 1 or 2 mbps and the 4g and 900mhz 3g covering almost the same distance if you force your phone to it.