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All networks 3G and 4G coverage maps snapshot
Ever wanted to easily compare 3G and 4G coverage for all 4 networks in one go but were unable to? Well fret no more. Here is a snapshot of 3G and 4G coverage for all networks as of June 2014. EE has the best followed closely by Three. O2 and Vodafone coming in last by a very wide margin showing what a decade of minimal investment will do!
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...g-roaming.html The article is about National Roaming and is worth a read. |
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Vodafone is absolutely awful on those maps, even compared to O2.
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Ever wanted to easily compare 3G and 4G coverage for all 4 networks in one go but were unable to? Well fret no more. Here is a snapshot of 3G and 4G coverage for all networks as of June 2014. EE has the best followed closely by Three. O2 and Vodafone coming in last by a very wide margin showing what a decade of minimal investment will do!
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...g-roaming.html The article is about National Roaming and is worth a read. |
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Are there any mobile phone aerials in that mast in the first photo?
O2 have started with 4G coverage in a little village around here not in the major cities or towns, very strange. Those maps should change dramatically when the 4G DD coverage gets going next year. |
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Amazed at how patchy Vodafone and O2's national coverage is! However, not been following the 4G roll outs of anyone other than EE, surprised at how fast Vodafone and O2 are catching EE up, but what's going on with three's 4G?
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Amazed at how patchy Vodafone and O2's national coverage is!
The problem isn't the handset, I go through them too quickly; nor is it the location as I've experienced it all over Scotland and a bit more - from Berwick to Dingwall. |
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I find the same (good signal, no data) on O2 and Vodafone, and before the merger, it was just as bad on Orange. Perhaps worse in many places.
Orange clearly gained an awful lot by merging with T-Mobile, and the additional benefit of T-Mobile having already teamed up with Three. Both T-Mobile and Three had been investing heavily in 3G with data in mind. Hell, Orange was so bad for me that when I could roam onto T-Mobile early on but 2G only, I did so because T-Mobile 2G data worked when Orange 2G or 3G data often didn't! The question is whether O2 and Vodafone will now spend the money to rectify all the problems, with the added benefit of improving both 3G and 2G coverage at the same time. If it can, we can hopefully forget that three networks were happy to get so complacent and got away with it for years. Problem is, history has a tendency of repeating itself. |
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The most amazing thing about Vodafone, IMO, is how frequently I can have decent signal but not actually be able to do anything - full bars H+ yet webpages won't load, apps that require data access don't update/refresh.
The problem isn't the handset, I go through them too quickly; nor is it the location as I've experienced it all over Scotland and a bit more - from Berwick to Dingwall. |
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it'll be 6G by the time o2 pulls their finger out of their ass & provides 4g for Aberdeen
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Take no notice of those maps. The O2 one shows i can drive from Hull to Liverpool with a 3g signal all the way. yeah right whatever, i know from experience, you wont get that. and same for drive up to Newcastle
New phones at xmas will not be withO2 signal is crap, its a embarrassment the state of mobile phone network in the uk. Same goes for broadband. ![]() rip off uk again, and dont get me started on kevin bacon! Weve got sky go, iplayer etc etc, but you try using them on a mobile device and if you are lucky to get a signal, youre data usage screws you.Rant over
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it'll be 6G by the time o2 pulls their finger out of their ass & provides 4g for Aberdeen
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Those Vodafone (and to a slightly lesser extent O2) 3G maps look utterly woeful.
3's 4G coverage map looks broken. I know that they're way behind compared to the other networks but I'd bet that it's a lot better than almost 0%? |
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Ofcom have refused to use Three's coverage/metrics data for 4G, because they aren't happy with how accurate it is (its on one of the ISP review articles, something to do with Three being quite opaque as to how the figures are calculated). Thats why there is no 4G on there.
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Ofcom have refused to use Three's coverage/metrics data for 4G, because they aren't happy with how accurate it is (its on one of the ISP review articles, something to do with Three being quite opaque as to how the figures are calculated). Thats why there is no 4G on there.
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Tallies with my experience. O2 (Tesco) forget it for data outside of towns/cities. EE is so much better.
When visiting Scotland O2's coverage is a joke (as the maps confirm). It amazes me that O2 keep managing to add customers. I just don't get it? |
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It amazes me that O2 keep managing to add customers. I just don't get it?
e.g. David Cameron suddenly thinking rural coverage is bad because he couldn't use his (probably Vodafone or O2) phone in Cornwall, when 3 or EE would probably have been so much better O2 also has the iPhone legacy where people moved to them to get the iPhone when it was exclusive and can't be bothered to move elsewhere |
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Because people don't know better. I have been on a train multiple times where people accept horrific GPRS performance and assume it's the train or that it is a rural area that is making it bad, when other networks perform so much better in the same spot - such as 3, where I can stream netflix while they struggle to get email.
e.g. David Cameron suddenly thinking rural coverage is bad because he couldn't use his (probably Vodafone or O2) phone in Cornwall, when 3 or EE would probably have been so much better O2 also has the iPhone legacy where people moved to them to get the iPhone when it was exclusive and can't be bothered to move elsewhere It had been reported on another thread that it was indeed Vodafone that David Cameron was using ![]() The iPhone tie in with O2 is an interesting one. O2 has by far the lowest Smartphone penetration at 50% which it just reached this year while other networks are a lot more. Even Vodafone are at 63.8%. Perhaps O2 tied in some initial customers who didn't leave but they have since then pretty much stagnated. Probably due to useless data network. Where is Wavejock to defend O2's wise lack of investment
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Where is Wavejock to defend O2's wise lack of investment
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He's banned again.
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What a pleasant week it has been too, just nice discussion and we've all got along.
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What a pleasant week it has been too, just nice discussion and we've all got along.
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To be fair, in my experience all networks are equally crap on the train (at least South West train routes). Number one: there are massive areas with no masts at all, as there are no people living in these areas and Network Rail hasn't given mobile phone companies access to the land (don't know why).
The trains also block the signals - what a fantastic idea that was. |
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Network Rail is to become a bit more open shortly regarding train coverage.. Quote:
Permabanned?
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To be fair, in my experience all networks are equally crap on the train (at least South West train routes). Number one: there are massive areas with no masts at all, as there are no people living in these areas and Network Rail hasn't given mobile phone companies access to the land (don't know why).
The trains also block the signals - what a fantastic idea that was. NR is trying to improve data coverage but one hurdle is that their masts were typically built without planning permission, which they are entitled to do because they host a safety critical network for railway use so reliability trumps aesthetics, but putting equipment to host a public mobile network will need permission and could be denied due to NIMBYism |
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New phones at xmas will not be withO2 signal is crap, its a embarrassment the state of mobile phone network in the uk. Same goes for broadband.