Originally Posted by lightspeed2398:
“Having had a good look since I found the 800 map last night, I'm quite concerned about the speeds from some of those masts. If you look up at Carlisle for example one mast appears to be doing the work of perhaps 5 normal masts and that's on a 5MHz bandwidth signal as well!
There should be the advantage shouldn't there that 3g gets a big boost if everyone else has moved to 4g shouldn't there? Might lock my phone to 3g if that happens.”
That's a good point, plenty of sites in my town use high frequency antennas that can't do 800 yet the coverage footprint for 800 is huge, it's possibly all from one particular site on a rooftop that already has quite a large footprint with 1800. When my local fill-in site was turned off for maintenence the other week, this rooftop site picked up the slack, I had service indoors and out, and quite a usable 4G service at that (never lost signal and the data worked), even with my nearest site being switched off.
If that's the case, I suppose the network will want your phone to hold onto 1800 for dear life until it switches to 800. Not only is the slice of spectrum extremely limited, but there might not be many sites upgraded with few sites covering a huge area. Maybe it's called Super-Voice because the data is going to be Super-Slow.
