Originally Posted by beans0ntoast:
“I really don't get why Three launched L08/Supervoice the way they did? Surely waiting until all sites were wired and ready for L08, then doing a big launch of all L08 sites on high power, would be better? That way there'd be more sites in a given area giving more capacity. And why they prioritised 4G L08 below 3G is beyond me... L08 would work much better indoors than U21!
And wouldn't the call drop if you had to switch from U21 to L08 during a phone call?”
I am not sure why they took so long to launch 800, and did it so half arsed. Of course, they promote it for voice primarily, and have prioritised it below 3G so I guess they did that so people would get faster data speeds on 3G and only fall to 4G 800 as a last resort.
Problem is, as we all know, with cell breathing 3G can be near useless these days. And you're kept on an unusable 3G service too long before going to 800 4G.
If they're playing around with settings (like I saw VoLTE on 1800 in Windsor a few months back and there are growing reports of this happening elsewhere now) then maybe they'll strike a good balance, but they must surely add more 800 sites too?
I've had three lots of work done locally, the last date being yesterday (13th) so I wonder if they've done any work on 800 and VoLTE here? I've not seen any other changes/improvements but it's possible they're still working on it.