[1manonthebog]

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?

[Gigabit]

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.

[swb1964]

EE uses higher frequencies than o2 or Vodafone and these don't penetrative into buildings as well....

[Cloudane]

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.

[Gigabit]

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.

[1manonthebog]

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Originally Posted by Gigabit

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.

Less population but look at the 4g speed I posted less than half EE 3G speed I get.