[lightspeed2398]

How much improvement due to cell breathing will there be on MBNL masts? Perhaps I'm just a little slow tonight but won't the effect only be fully felt when both Three and EE upgrade to 4g because the 3g is shared so closely, although EE do have the greater market share by a massive margin.

[japaul]

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Originally Posted by lightspeed2398

How much improvement due to cell breathing will there be on MBNL masts? Perhaps I'm just a little slow tonight but won't the effect only be fully felt when both Three and EE upgrade to 4g because the 3g is shared so closely, although EE do have the greater market share by a massive margin.

As EE and Three's spectrum is separate, one doesn't have any effect on the other when it comes to cell breathing.

Having said that, although cell breathing gets mentioned a lot, in practice it isn't really much of a problem for any of the operators.

[noise747]

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Originally Posted by DevonBloke

3G already improving. Several here have mentioned it and I have noticed it too.
It's bound to happen. If EE have nearly 50% on 4G then all those users on a particular cell are going to offload a huge amount of traffic from 3G.
The result?
That 3G cell will spend more and more of it's time transmitting it's maximum coverage footprint.

Course, it's not happened on my mast yet as there is no bloody 4G.
Edging towards 3 years from launch now.
I'm going to be 97 before I see it I think!!

i have no idea what Vodafone is doing a couple of days back 3G just went, still at least I could still phone out and use text, which is more than you can do with three if 3G goes. Maybe Voda was still updating the network as I had a text a couple of weeks ago about interruptions.

As of yet I have not see any improvements, but it is early days. Saying that 3G is not too bad here with Voda, certainly better than the other networks.
We will see what happens once 4G really take of around here, I suppose it depends how many people have a 4G phone and if their contract covers 4G.

I had a email from vodafone about updating my contract and my phone to 4G, something I have no interest in doing, I will still with my Nexus 4 until it goes belly up.

[jabbamk1]

UK Q1 2015 Mobile Phone sell through at retail.

Includes phones sold at retail (In store/Online/telesales) in the UK for Q1 2015.

Total: 4.50m
Adrd: 3.00m
Appl: 0.95m
WP8: 0.31m
Othr: 0.16m

Numbers rounded.

Next quarter expected to be up.

[jabbamk1]

No one cares about UK smartphone sales?

ok haha

[noise747]

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Originally Posted by jabbamk1

No one cares about UK smartphone sales?

ok haha

I should think there is enough smartphones out there now to give two to each person in the UK.

Time for phone companies to up the prices and bit and stop the wastage. i am sure that someone do not need a new phone every couple of years.

[moox]

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Originally Posted by noise747

I should think there is enough smartphones out there now to give two to each person in the UK.

Time for phone companies to up the prices and bit and stop the wastage. i am sure that someone do not need a new phone every couple of years.

There are a lot of things people don't need, but want, and the industry is geared towards people who want a free iPhone 128GB every two years and to hell with the monthly cost