Originally Posted by The Lord Lucan:
“Not sure how you come to that conclusion. EE's VOLTE is on all frequencies. Threes only on one. EE have by far the biggest roll out of 4G nationally and that's using exclusively 1800, not 800. It may seem like in some places the others are catching up but in reality it is a false sense of security for them as EE is yet to activate 800 nationally. The jump in coverage when that happens will be huge over the others.
The issue is they have the most 4G users and generally the most costly tariffs so changes only happen when they are perfect. Threes VOLTE was and still is a horrific car crash.”
“Not sure how you come to that conclusion. EE's VOLTE is on all frequencies. Threes only on one. EE have by far the biggest roll out of 4G nationally and that's using exclusively 1800, not 800. It may seem like in some places the others are catching up but in reality it is a false sense of security for them as EE is yet to activate 800 nationally. The jump in coverage when that happens will be huge over the others.
The issue is they have the most 4G users and generally the most costly tariffs so changes only happen when they are perfect. Threes VOLTE was and still is a horrific car crash.”
I'm unsure as to what "conclusion" you allude to here. However it is fact that currently, Three have the best network reliability and although not perfect, now help a lot of users to attain a signal indoors where 1800/2100MHz does not penetrate. Their solution is far from perfect, sure, however given the choice of no EE signal vs 4G/800 using TinT I'd take the signal anyday.
Unfortunately EE have been touting VoLTE and 800MHz since Q1/Q2 2015 and not one Android user has seen this ....... yet.
I'm sure that EE will gain some additional advantage when (one day) the ~3-4k masts are 800MHz activated but don't write off VF just yet. I just hope the handoffs between 2G/3G/4G are seamless and hopefully better than my dropped call rate I get today!
Let's see some rollout plans from EE ...... ?



