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Old 31-12-2015, 20:59
Stereo Steve
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Funny as most indoor places that have poor indoor signal down this way on EE have WiFi... Hello WiFi calling.... a service that also supports SMS

There are quite a few places in Plymouth that drop to EDGE on Vodafone but have 4-5 bars of EE 4G
While that is true to some extent, you don't always have access to the wifi. We visited a good friend the other day and I don't have her wifi password so unless I was to walk in the door and immediately say 'Hello human friend, what is your WiFi password? ANSWER ME', Wifi calling would be useless. Or I could say 'Oh, can I have your wifi password as my in building coverage is so poor I have to rely on a backup solution?'.

As it was I had 4 bars of VOD (2G only) and no 3 at all. Missus had a flicker of EE but not enough to use the web so in the end had to ask for the wifi password anyway.

Essentially VO2 had a massive advantage from the start and they have squandered it while EE and 3 patiently built their 3G networks.

Anyway, 800 will sort it out hopefully very soon and VO2's only historic advantage will be decimated overnight. The end.
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Old 01-01-2016, 13:00
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Its a shame no one has done a tariff with 50gb allowance but also with an additional off peak to allow for things like larger downloads and OS updates etc to be done off peak.
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Old 01-01-2016, 13:28
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The Landlord to cheap have Free WiFi for you regulars?
Yeah, he can get 80 meg FTTC now. Not a clue about anything tech though so it's probably still 2 meg ADSL.
Brilliant isn't it. Just when we get great cellular in there, we don't need it!
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Old 01-01-2016, 19:31
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If he moved there and got Snook back to run EE (assuming he hasn't died from chain smoking or excessive colonic irrigation) , then we'd be getting somewhere.
I think it would also depend on how attractive the female staff at EE are. Allegedly.
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Old 03-01-2016, 21:24
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These are my predictions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLvbNQhNFrM Unsurprisingly fairly similar to those here!
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Old 03-01-2016, 23:13
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These are my predictions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLvbNQhNFrM Unsurprisingly fairly similar to those here!
Saw that earlier on today and you have made some pretty good predictions.

I just hope that 3/O2 does go through, otherwise both 3 and O2 will be short on spectrum for 4G...
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