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O2 & Vodafone 4G coverage 1 year after launch
Its pretty much been 1 year since O2 and Vodafone launched 4G so how have they gotten on?
Well both O2 and Vodafone had initially planned to have 98% coverage by the end of 2015 but then revised it to 2017 instead. So far O2 have only done Glasgow and Edinburgh districts in Scotland. England fared slightly better with London, Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bradford and Newcastle districts. There is a least a decent amount of overspill in these districts but as you would expect its clearly aimed at highly populated areas as usual. As for Wales forget it! Unsurprisingly Vodafone's 4G coverage is broadly similar. Roll out is slower than EE so they will have to shift things up a gear in the next 12 months. http://www.o2.co.uk/4g/coverage-and-cities https://www.vodafone.co.uk/our-netwo...x.htm?=network http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1942613 |
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EE are miles ahead with 4G coverage but to be fair where O2 and Vodafone have some they have depth of coverage making it possible to get a signal in most areas of the cities covered easily. 3 are the network that is presently offering the least 4G coverage in the UK but they have stated that their rollout is being driven by capacity requirements in the first instance.
Frankly I doubt if the type of technology is that important for most mobile users as long as they can stream video, audio and browse on their handsets and that is possible with the widely installled updated versions of 3G from all network providers. |
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Unsurprisingly Vodafone's 4G coverage is broadly similar.
Neither are on the coverage map - and I suspect this is a large part of Hampshire now enabled. At exactly 1 year I suspect they will both issue a press release. |
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1 yr in and our town has full 4G coverage from Vodafone. It appeared this last week but not had any publication from Vodafone to say it's on.
still no sign of any coverage of 4G from EE what's your point? |
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O2 have 43% population coverage 1 year on.
EE had 60%+ population coverage 1 year on. EE is still leading the way in terms of 4G IMO. They just need to sort out their stuff. I just hope ALL networks follow through in their promise of 98% population coverage otherwise it's just going to be dumb having loads of gaps in coverage |
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My mum who is on O2 4G (who was offered a cheaper contract if she went 4G) doesn't get nearly as much coverage on 4G as I do (I'm on EE).
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1 yr in and our town has full 4G coverage from Vodafone. It appeared this last week but not had any publication from Vodafone to say it's on. still no sign of any coverage of 4G from EE what's your point?
Its obviously down to when the backhaul guys get their high speed links into an area, when masts get activated. Its just interesting to watch. |
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Can you do that for Voda and EE and Three as well, then we'd have something to compare with Rootmetrics
![]() http://www.three.co.uk/static/images...st/5/15/21.png http://www.three.co.uk/static/images...st/5/16/21.png - other tile for the East coast They are all there, it's just a case of locating the links which takes a bit of time and because they are map tiles you don't get the whole country, even on the outer zoom levels. It's a bit tedious, but maybe somebody will have a go. I thought I heard that Ofcom were going to release some new maps for us at some point like they did in 2009? |
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Good work ![]() So O2 should pretty much be aiming for their 4G coverage map to look similar to their 2G Coverage map by the end of 2017. Given their 3G coverage is nowhere near the 2G coverage map after 11 years of minimal investment it looks like they have a lot of work to do! Is still suspect they will weasel out of it and use the bare minimum of 3G at 2Mbps to meet Ofcoms coverage criteria. |
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Frankly I think most customers would be happy if they could simply make a phone call from most areas. Move out of the towns and cities in most areas of the country and you may as well switch your phone off. Whilst 4G 3G etc. etc. may be the main focus of town dwellers lives I can assure you that just being able to make a call when you want to is the focus for non city dwellers.
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Only EE4g in Aberdeen.No sign of any of the others bothering.
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Only EE4g in Aberdeen.No sign of any of the others bothering.
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Three have some patchy 4G in Aberdeen and Dundee.
EE cover a bit more, but it appears to be from 3 or 4 sites only. Backhaul is the apparent reason. |
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Frankly I think most customers would be happy if they could simply make a phone call from most areas. Move out of the towns and cities in most areas of the country and you may as well switch your phone off. Whilst 4G 3G etc. etc. may be the main focus of town dwellers lives I can assure you that just being able to make a call when you want to is the focus for non city dwellers.
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I disagree, more and more business users need at least 3G to do their job. Major companies are now asking their employees to work from their smartphone using off the shelf or custom developed apps. You try using business apps on (for example) Vodafone's 2G network. It just doesn't work!
Firms can make as many bespoke apps as they wish but if there isn't a signal then the effort is all for nought. |
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I disagree, more and more business users need at least 3G to do their job. Major companies are now asking their employees to work from their smartphone using off the shelf or custom developed apps. You try using business apps on (for example) Vodafone's 2G network. It just doesn't work!
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Vodafone are having big problems all over Leicestershire and Northamptonshire there is no 3G coverage at all. Also calls keep dropping on 2G as well.
It must be quite a large issue to affect such a large area. |
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