Originally Posted by Denco1:
“You might be surprised to know, but there's two 800MHz transmitters less than 0.3 miles from the Ford Madox Brown and The Oxford pubs.
One is on the Hathersage Road NHS carpark, with the other being a street pole on Pencroft Way.
So your experience cements what I was saying months ago. 800MHz can travel miles and miles in clear line of sight conditions. But it can't work magic with dense city clutter. Three still need a dense rollout, like all the other networks have realised.”
That is quite interesting to know, am I right in guessing that you've got access to perhaps a little more information than some others?

If you are, then I suggest your network engineers have a drive down the A5103 Princess Parkway while streaming: somewhere the 4G is just slightly too weak and it drops to 3G. No big deal as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't buffer or stutter so the 3G network is still keeping up okay!
In the defence of Three, the FMB is a challenge for every network; certainly if you sit near the back you've got zero coverage from any provider or technology, so they're certainly not the odd one out in that particular location.
Jonmorris' comments about density are interesting though, I had also seen the comments that for whatever reason, Three were not using as many masts as EE are. With 3G cell breathing, this'll exacerbate any coverage issues - more users between fewer masts, meaning that the Three 3G footprint might shrink significantly compared to the EE 3G footprint. To what extent this is actually occurring I don't know; maybe it'll be even more pronounced with EE's 4G network presumably shouldering a lot of their data burden, leaving the 3G network unstressed and thus it'll be fully.. exhaling? What's the term for a network whose cells aren't breathing in?