[jchamier]

EE benefited from the 1800mhz and already having real deployment experience of that spectrum for 2G - so their 4G footprint matched their engineers expectations.

I can see Vodafone catching up (due to the massive amount of money they're throwing in) by end 2015, or at worst end 2016 - and having similar speeds/coverage to EE thanks to 800 and 2600.

O2 and Three will be poor cousins even if they acquire more spectrum in the next auction. Three will gain customers who need things like Feel at Home but for most people that's a two weeks a year nice feature that the other networks could easily do features for (e.g. Vodafone's £3/day rate etc).