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Question about building penetration?
Ok curious about this one. I am on EE, I have a good signal until I enter a building then it goes to pot often resulting in no service. I was in Ireland this week and bought a 3 sim card. I hear 3 in the UK has a similar issue with building penetration however in Ireland I had no such problems.
http://i.imgur.com/qeHnoGF.png?1 3G signal was constantly full, even in an old hotel with 2 ft thick walls. 4G dropped 1 bar. This was also pretty much the case everywhere I went. Constant full signal. Checking Wikipedia I believe all networks have the same bands. So why in the UK is building penetration so poor? |
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Three in Ireland use 900MHz for 3G extensively. I experienced a similar thing when I was there.
In the UK Three and EE use 2100MHz for 3G and 1800MHz for 4G, although Three will be using 800MHz for 4G shortly. |
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EE uses higher frequencies than o2 or Vodafone and these don't penetrative into buildings as well....
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I know about this and that's a big part of why I switched to Vodafone for a bit. But I didn't find it any better, I think because they just use fewer masts and put them further away, so the end result is the same (but with a lot less 3G and 4G and more expensive data, so I switched back)
If you had 900MHz on all the EE masts it'd be amazing. But most likely they'd just shut some of them down. |
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You also have to remember that Ireland has a very small population. This means masts are likely to be under less load and in the case of 3G, cell breathing is likely to occur less.
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You also have to remember that Ireland has a very small population. This means masts are likely to be under less load and in the case of 3G, cell breathing is likely to occur less.
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