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EE Coverage map has just had an update, although not all tiles are loading at different zoom levels
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#827 |
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The 4G Calling page has been updated
Belfast Birmingham Boston Bristol Cardiff Darlington Edinburgh Glasgow Grantham Hatfield Hereford Hull Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Newcastle Plymouth Redditch Scunthorpe Warwick I'm still getting flakey VoLTE in Nottingham, was working all morning and even after work, went into a shopping centre which usually results in no service and no sign of VoLTE now. |
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#828 |
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EE Coverage map has just had an update, although not all tiles are loading at different zoom levels
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EE Coverage map has just had an update, although not all tiles are loading at different zoom levels
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#830 |
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It's very annoying to see 4G+ showing on low zoom levels, and then disappear when you zoom in!
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The 4G Calling page has been updated
Belfast Birmingham Boston Bristol Cardiff Darlington Edinburgh Glasgow Grantham Hatfield Hereford Hull Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Newcastle Plymouth Redditch Scunthorpe Warwick I'm still getting flakey VoLTE in Nottingham, was working all morning and even after work, went into a shopping centre which usually results in no service and no sign of VoLTE now. |
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#832 |
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Has anyone worked out how they are rolling VoLTE out yet? (4G density, copying original 4g rollout maybe?)
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#833 |
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Yep Hereford has been live for about 2 weeks now.
How long did it take from having VoLTE working sometimes, to being fully live? Just wondering how long it takes from being sorta working to fully working. |
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#834 |
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Fully live as in you can switch your phone to aeroplane mode and back again and it will pretty much immediately allow you to use VoLTE?
How long did it take from having VoLTE working sometimes, to being fully live? Just wondering how long it takes from being sorta working to fully working. |
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It went live on that day a couple of weeks ago (2 weeks ago on Tuesday I think when loads of others did around the UK), went off on Wednesday afternoon, then back on Thursday and never went off again. And yes works all the time virtually as soon as you connect to the mast.
I wonder why certain areas seem much easier to switch on than others. |
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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
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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. Quote:
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.
What phones are you all using? |
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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? |
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#838 |
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EE Coverage map has just had an update, although not all tiles are loading at different zoom levels
No new coverage at Donnington Park yet - was hoping for something in time for Download Festival in a few weeks. If bookey reads this - any news on CoWs at the festival this year? |
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EE finally put a 4G mast in Market Harborough where I work back in March and since last week this mast has also been allowing VOLTE yet none or the nearby masts or towns have this enabled so just on this one random mast I presume as its so new it was easy to do.
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#840 |
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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? For example, if you lock your phone to 4G only mode, you'll keep hold of 4G right until you lose signal, though at -130dBm you are really better off on something else, as throughput is going to be very low at such signal levels. My Samsung Galaxy S4 does this when going from 3G to 2G; there are certain areas that have a very strong 2G, but a weak 3G, and the phone just jumps to 2G - why? 3G is still usable there and faster than 2G.... I also think on certain handsets, it depends on the signal levels of other technologies... for example, there's one place on the Midland Mainline (on the last 100GB SIM) whereby 4G was reasonably weak (1 bar) and 3G (from Orange, in fact) was strong, so the phone always jumped to Orange 3G. There was another point where 4G was at two bars, and there was a 3G mast very close by, so the phone went for the 3G. Though if 4G and 3G are both weak, the phone will either stay on 4G, or (stupidly) jump to EDGE/GPRS.... ![]() Has someone actually found a way to allow 3G and 4G on a Samsung S4 whilst blocking 2G? That would help a lot! Quote:
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
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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. ![]() Though 22Mbps is still pretty good. Quote:
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.
Btw, I've now got my EE SIM up and running (switched from Virgin to EE), have already had my number ported across, and did a 4G test upstairs. 4G strength is showing as up to 2 bars/50%, though usually it was on 1 bar. Approx -105dBm - so not my local mast, but a more distant mast. It provides 18Mbps down and 10Mbps up (on 4G) - which is pretty good for the signal strength available. And although 18Mbps isn't much better than my local 3G mast (3G can be anywhere between 10 and 20 Mbps), the upload speed of 10Mbps is definitely worth having. As a comparison, 3G is about 2.5Mbps up in my area, and Virgin Media Wifi (30Mbps package) is 2Mbps upload, with a speed restriction kicking in after 750MB of uploading (and a further speed restriction at 1GB upload). Thank goodness I got the 16GB deal when it was on special offer! |
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EE finally put a 4G mast in Market Harborough where I work back in March and since last week this mast has also been allowing VOLTE yet none or the nearby masts or towns have this enabled so just on this one random mast I presume as its so new it was easy to do.
![]() If I find any additional 4G coverage (since my last test, with a 100GB SIM), I'll be sure to update this thread
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BeansOntoast- As far as I can make out they have just enabled one matst at the top of Kettering Road which looks down over the whole town. I have been into the centre and the one near the KFC is still 2G only,
The one by the Police station which is shared with Vodafone and Tetra is still 3G but has had backhaul upgrade as now 10-12 Mb speed down and finally the mast by the train station is still 3G with Sub 2mb speeds I expect this to be removed anyday now has never been upgraded. This is a strange one as it serves the train station which is very busy with all the commuters and lots of trains stopping here |
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#843 |
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EE finally put a 4G mast in Market Harborough where I work back in March and since last week this mast has also been allowing VOLTE yet none or the nearby masts or towns have this enabled so just on this one random mast I presume as its so new it was easy to do.
Oh alright then, not really but it's fun testing it! haha |
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#844 |
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See, what you need to do there is start a call on that mast and then move (handover) to other ones. The call will stay on VoLTE until you hang up. problem solved!
Oh alright then, not really but it's fun testing it! haha ).Amd to stay on topic, I think all the masts in my area are now completely VoLTEtified, they can all start calls and hand over calls
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According to the coverage map my area, my street ! Is covered with his double speed 4G - well it's not , even outside there isn't any 4G
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Just found this help page for 4G Calling which lists the cities where it has been officially switched on:
http://ee.co.uk/help/phones-and-device/4g-calling Belfast Birmingham Boston Bristol Darlington Edinburgh Glasgow Grantham Hatfield Hull Leeds London Manchester Newcastle Redditch Scunthorpe Belfast Birmingham Boston Bristol Cardiff Darlington Edinburgh Glasgow Grantham Hatfield Hereford Hull Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Newcastle Plymouth Redditch Scunthorpe Warwick |
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#847 |
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Can confirm that 4G is available at Market Harborough train station. Speeds 33/15
Also a bit of 4G outside the station too,between mkt harborough and Leicester. 4G at wellingborough station is good as well. Speeds 80/10. |
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BeansOntoast- As far as I can make out they have just enabled one matst at the top of Kettering Road which looks down over the whole town. I have been into the centre and the one near the KFC is still 2G only,
The one by the Police station which is shared with Vodafone and Tetra is still 3G but has had backhaul upgrade as now 10-12 Mb speed down and finally the mast by the train station is still 3G with Sub 2mb speeds I expect this to be removed anyday now has never been upgraded. This is a strange one as it serves the train station which is very busy with all the commuters and lots of trains stopping here 4G in Kettering was good last time as well. This will be an awesome network! Now all I need is some techie on here to tell me how to keep both LTE and WCDMA, whilst also ignoring GSM. This phone sometimes has a mind of its own when selecting network type! |
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Can confirm that 4G is available at Market Harborough train station. Speeds 33/15
Also a bit of 4G outside the station too,between mkt harborough and Leicester. 4G at wellingborough station is good as well. Speeds 80/10. |
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I wish mine did that. As has been said even on 0 bars of 4g you still get decent speeds.
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That's strange, does your phone connect to 3G at all anywhere? Seems like it might be set to 2G.4G, if that is at all possible?
![]() IME the places it's on 4G are the places that used to have 3G (back when I had a 3G phone on T-Mobile) and the places it's on Edge are where it used to be on the T-Mobile Orange network. That being said the places where it does fall back to Edge are shrinking by the week (Holme Pierpont Country Park, Cotgrave Country Park and the old RAF Newton base being noticeable areas of improvement). |
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