Had that issue last night.

Skippy2005- see here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2088689

They are going to have to though. 800 is going to go some 40% further than 2100.
(that's just a guess really based on an EE engineer stating that 800 will go some 30% further than 1800).
Anyone with for example, and iPhone 5s indoors is going to at some point have 1-2 usable bars of 800 but no way to make a call.
You would know Why that was, I would know why that was but Mr or Mrs public are going to complain bitterly and I can already see a life or death emergency situation where there was signal but no way to make a call and one of the networks getting dragged onto TV to explain themselves to the angry hoard....

This, is why EE's 1800 is on low power.

Good point, since of course VoLTE IS data itself!.
I believe it will be locked down based on IMEI for the reasons I posted just now.

For emergency use, what is the chance that you've got an 800MHz signal but no other signal from O2 or Vodafone (on 900MHz 2G)?

lol, mass corona reported my post :P

But yeh, coverage map seems to be having some work done and it's all messed up on the front end. Guess that's what happens when you have contractors working on it.

Honestly have you not read the community guidelines, you've got to sound butthurt and hate against Three at all times.

On another note I've been trying to work out where my 800 will be coming from seeing as it's my closest mast, looks as though they're predicting it'll be able to travel up through thick trees and hills no matter which of the two masts it will be, impressive if it works.

Maybe he thought you reported his? (It was actually me)

Brilliant, thanks for your help. 😁

By your logic, then, we shouldn't have 3G because some people still have 2G-only handsets. Or we shouldn't have 4G because some people have 3G-only handset. It's nonsense.

Emergency calls are only "guaranteed" to get through from a non-cordless landline. That's why any cordless phone which requires mains power for the base station should mention in the instruction booklet that you should have another phone for emergency calls.

It shouldn't matter which mobile network you are on when making an emergency call, as your phone should automatically be able to make an emergency call on any carrier's network, without enabling roaming or anything else. If your phone can't connect to any network because of the frequency or mode they are using, that's the problem of the phone, not the network.

Do you know what 4G is? To put it simply, everything over 4G is data. Calls are data too. Calls use barely any data, you can have way way more calls over 4G VoLTE than 3G. It won't be congested for calls at all. Data on the other hand, with only 5MHz on 800, I can see it being super congested.

Calls will always get the highest priority over the network.

Also, VoLTE will work on 1800 or 800, so 1800 can also take calls, and even if it got insanely congested for some reason, there's still 3g calling to fall back on.

Something tells me that there are going to be a lot of unhappy campers after the 10th. I have a horrible feeling that VoLTE with the current coverage pattern is going to cause lots of drop outs when falling out of 4G mid-call.

That - and the fact EE seem hell bent on not using their 800MHz spectrum to improve indoor 4G coverage will mean I will disable VoLTE on my handset as my current set up with WiFi calling suits me fine. I know this is a Three thread but still I think people thinking VoLTE is going to be their saviour are going to be sorely disappointed.

Maybe that's why they only have the LG G4 and Galaxy S5 as VoLTE devices at launch. They are going to want some significant 4G coverage before they start enabling iPhones for VoLTE.

October isn't that far away. Can't see what they're going to accomplish in a month unless they do what EE's doing now and prioritise the masts which give the greatest coverage. Honestly with this I think they should be prioritising areas and upgrading as many as they can in specific areas for capacity rather than coverage.

Why's that?

Won't srvcc be good enough to handle 4G dropouts mid call?

You can hit the URL directly with the postcode you need to check:
http://www.three.co.uk/maintenance/c...ostcode=HA89SP
Shows as "800 Coming"

Mmm, changing the above to my postcode I got; I used to know someone who could be called 'super-pumped'.

'Usable' in NYC was my experience...

I was able to manually select AT&T or T-Mobile and found AT&T to be faster where available. Though others had T-Mobile and AT&T local sims with 4G and found T-Mobile to be faster on 4G...

Thanks very much, you say where available (AT&T) is the coverage not as widely available compared to T-Mobile?

Just my gut feeling. I am happy to be proved wrong. I still won't be using it.

In the US, AT&T has by far a larger 4G LTE coverage footprint than T-Mobile, but T-Mobile is generally the faster network. The US market is very different than ours because spectrum is sold by market, so in one area T-Mobile might have 20MHz of spectrum and AT&T might have 15MHz and in another the other way round. AT&T is generally a solid network, not the fastest not the slowest speeds but always useable. T Mobile is more of a risk for many people. You have the advantage of both when roaming.

There are two other main networks (there are lots and lots of regional networks and affiliates) Verizon and Sprint, you can't roam on either of them because they're CDMA based, although they're using LTE even though Sprint dabbled in WiMax. Verizon has the best coverage footprint of any network, indeed their LTE rollout is fully complete and generally has very good speeds especially on their XLTE (20MHz wide band rollout) network. Sprint is behind quite a bit because they messed up their rollout at first, they used a 5MHz bandwidth carrier as their primary frequency for a time (à la Three) and it's really comeback to bite them, now they're rolling out on three frequencies using 8T8R antennas on every mast, FDD800MHz at 5MHz bearer, FDD1900MHz at 5MHz (10MHz in very very few markets like one or two at most) and TDD2500MHz of which they have about 120MHz of bandwidth of which they're rolling out 40MHz in CA in their most used markets.

Long post but I thought I'd share.

But Three and EE have eSRVCC in place to specifically overcome that issue.

Wasn't too worried if I'm honest when I was there so didn't take too much notice, phone seemed to prefer T-Mobile so stayed on that, the couple of times I had to switch to AT&T I then lost connection a couple of times quickly and had to switch back to T.