The use of 800MHz and its superior indoor penetration will be noticed and beneficial. Perhaps less important if you're on Vodafone or O2 and they have 900MHz 2G/3G in your area, but very important for 3 or EE customers.

I live in a house with thick granite walls, and it is actually impressive how well 3's 4G800 penetrates here. Historically all of the networks have been naff

Typical, my essay reply to Resonance has been left on the bottom of the last page! Oh well. Found a better photo of Leverburgh though...

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/...8_d62660e8.jpg

#Iwillstopnow

EE have now changed the wording on their website to say you can buy any Nexus 5X and 6P

"WiFi calling is available on all versions of the iPhone 5c and later models of the iPhone, as well as the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P"

http://ee.co.uk/help/phones-and-device/wifi-calling

If you use WiFi Calling, not having the call drop when you walk out of range of your AP is a pretty big benefit of VoLTE.

My bolding... given the mess the mobile industry seems to have created with 4G and VoLTE, that does seem like quite a far off proposition.

A MIP mast at Sedgeford, Norfolk has gone live recently (been there a few times and was definately a not spot) yet EE are not showing any 2G/3G/4G coverage on their map. O2/Voda seem to be on the ball so come on EE!

Only knew a MIP mast was here as it's flagged up on EE Network Status Checker.

Ah good - now that it's officially supported I can bug then about it grinding to a halt after less than a day and needing a reboot!

Seriously is anyone on a 5X and have WiFi calling working consistently?

I wonder if they will add anything about the unlocked Galaxy S7 too?

Ah, yes, that is a good point

All valid and fair points, but there's a handful of locations around the Highlands & Islands where Orange has always had blackspots or poor coverage, yet planning & landlord permissions were as far as rollout ever got. In at least one case, I know the holdup was purely political i.e. "why install here when T-Mobile might be doing the same in a few years", needless to say it's an EE blackspot to this day.

Gairloch in Wester Ross, Strathcanaird just north of Ullapool, Uig on Northern Skye are but 3 examples that spring to mind. Given that these were planned even before 3G came along, it would be nice if G1800 at least could be brought live. U2100 and L1800 would be very impressive.

There's also a few rural (but not remote) areas to the west of Inverness (Lentran, Beauly, Muir of Ord) where EE 2G is patchy at best, yet VF/O2 have sites so I'm sure something could be done.

If they do roll out 800 fairly soon and it's dense, that won't be a huge problem though really. Aside from 800 possibly getting swamped and 1800 not being able to take the pressure off. But I doubt in the areas it's needed most that it will happen. 2G will still be able to handle a fair amount of calls for the next few years.

Indeed!
I actually forgot about this last week. Was on a WiFi call at home, walked out the house then was pretty confused about why it dropped a little bit down my road. Then I remembered! A bit annoying tbh. Is there any way of a call going from WiFi to 3G / 2G at all in the foreseeable future or will it just be to 4G using VoLTE?

Only 4G unfortunately. Once you've handed over to VoLTE it can then hand down to 3/2G

The July date for VoLTE full roll out seems massively optimistic considering they have been messing with VoLTE in Nottingham for over 2 weeks now and it still can't make up its mind if it's going to work or not.

I walk the same route to work every day, it's around 3.5 miles, some mornings my phone will make calls on VoLTE from pretty much every single mast on the way.

Other mornings the calls will drop straight down to 3G even though it's the exact same masts I'm using.

Some days it can be working fine in the morning and not be working in the afternoon.

It's all very odd, you'd think that if it was enabled on a mast it would stay enabled, not being switched on and off all the time.

If it's taking weeks to enable one city and it's still not done yet, I don't see how they are going to fully enable the rest of the UK in a few months.

Wierd. My closet 4G mast in Stamford did this occasionally but now VoLTE 24/7 for the past few weeks.

Up the A1, VoLTE all the way to Grantham but nothing yet towards and in Peterborough.

Mine does the exact same!

Will be fine and then wifi calling will suddenly stop working and a reboot is the only way to solve it. Sometimes it will last a couple of days whilst other times it will drop within the hour.

I've also had issues with people saying I'm breaking up when speaking to them like cutting in and out. I think I've traced that though to when people have me on handsfree so i don't know if it's something to do with the compression. What does concern me about this is isn't it going to be the same system of VOLTE.

Interesting, thanks.

The one that amazes me is no 3G coverage in Portree. You'd think they'd try to cover the main population centre. 2G is fine, but you don’t get a sniff of 3G.

I suspect what was done was done under MBNL, with Three and T-Mob, pre EE.

I remember on a University trip to Mull, there was one lad on T-Mob. No service all week anywhere on the island, those of us on Orange and VO2 were fine. Last day, topping out on a high peak his phone suddenly sprang into life. It was his Mrs giving him a right earful about not calling all week!

Point I'm making is, T-Mob's coverage in the highlands, back in the day, was at best, crap. Hence the EE 3G now looks a bit poor, but I suspect it will change, and relatively quickly with the bluelight contract forcing 4G rollout and bringing 3G with it.

Glad it's not just me who even as one, let alone has the problem. Might mean that it's something that gets ironed out, then. Must admit, love the flexibility of Android as I do, the bugs sometimes make me wish I hadn't sold my iPhone At least they've supposedly fixed the camera lag in the latest Google Camera update.

True. T-Mobile only ever covered the tourist routes around the Highlands, Orange rolled out a lot more and in probably 85-odd% of locations they're on a par with VO2 in pure "do I have coverage" terms. In a handful of other areas they've long promised coverage (long before L800 etc came along) but it's never materialised in all the years I've been travelling up there.

Getting Orange's & T-M's coverage joined has helped in places like Skye, but it'd be lovely to think that these latest developments might finally see a few of EE's G1800/U2100-suitable deadspots filled in.

Good news - Euro Data Passes can now be activated by users on the most recent plans. £3 per day for 500MB data in EU, by texting EURODATA to 150.

And it's 500MB of full speed data from the end of the month.

Does anyone else have it that there phone is quite keen to drop down to 3g. On 4g I never seem to have one or two bars. It was either shows 4 or 5 and then gos to 3g.

I'm pretty sure it's the network that set the handoff threshold so would there be any reason behind EE doing this?

It's just 4G going out of range. In a vast number of places 4g coverage is the same as the minimum footprint of 3G

I see the opposite - hangs onto 0 bars of 4G (still 22mbps+ mind) for dear life rather than using the 3G signal box at work.

Anywhere else is either 4G or Edge.

No... mine clings to 4G for dear life before falling back to 3G. Which is great. Because if you're streaming data, and it drops to 3G, it won't go back to 4G until you stop using data.