A large amount of "upgrades" are happening again in the SW region according the Network Staus Checker.

Hi just had a thought would handing over the 450mhz tetra spectrum to National Rail be more of a wise idea and freeing up the 900mhz that they use for mobile use? Is that possible? Some people mentioned TETRA the other day and its just occured to me. Is their even enough 900mhz from NR for mobile use? Cheers

3's website is once again telling me about "network improvements" tomorrow, though EE's site currently says nothing

Did you ever get any info on the carr house mast Skippy?

Not yet no, I have not had chance to dig deeper yet

No none, i was going to give a shout to bookey.... Bookey any news

Lol never scrolled down far enough

Any more cities gone live today or this week?

4G Calling seems to be non existent in Nottingham atm, at least in the parts of Nottingham I've been in this past week.

Was working intermittently the past few weeks otherwise.

Plymouth is live but I think that was already known here.
Oh, mine has it too...

Isn't the GSM-R band a pan european protected band?

Had to post this speed test result, given it was just off Euston Road. Earlier in the day (5pm) it was 78Mbps, so perhaps proof of congestion when workers are a still in town.

https://goo.gl/photos/K3uGn5JnjomEZAuZ9

(for those who don't want to click, it's a speed test result of over 148Mbps, and I topped 150 for a split second - obviously hitting the cap).

That's odd - I was around Euston yesterday and only getting around 8 - 10 at peak times, and around 40 late at night. In the city (Cheapside) during the day it was around 50.

What on earth is going on with the upload speed there though??

Yeah, we were wondering that too.

I've had the same at home though. 90-100 down, 7 up.

VoLTE is live in Gloucester this morning. I'm guessing it will be switched off at some point, I've never seen it on here.

Off already!

Upgrade day for me. Going continue a SIM only plan.

(£m)
Revenue 1,055
Operating costs 794
EBITDA 261
Depreciation & amortisation 176
Operating profit 85
Capital expenditure 111
Operating cash flow 310


Revenue for the two months since we acquired EE was £1,055m. This consists of mobile service revenue of £913m, fixed and wholesale revenue of £89m and equipment sales of £53m. Of total revenue, £1,038m was external and £17m was internal.

Monthly mobile ARPUs in the period were £26.7 for postpaid customers, £3.9 for prepaid and £18.6 on a combined basis. At the end of the period the total customer base was 30.6m (excluding BT Mobile customers) .EE added 54,000 postpaid mobile
customers in the two months, taking the postpaid customer base to 15.4m. We signed a number of significant corporate customers including Arriva Trains, and we began connecting users under our Anglian Water and Prudential contracts. The number of prepaid customers reduced by 426,000 taking the base to 8.3m, with a seasonal drop following Christmas trading, faster migrations to postpaid and greater price competition from the MVNO market. The 4G customer base reached 15.1m. The MVNO base and machine to machine bases increased by 28,000 and 77,000 over the two months to 3.7m and 2.3m respectively. EE added 11,000 broadband customerstaking the base to 951,000 and customers choosing to take fibre broadband grew by 10,000. Postpaid churn was 1.1% reflecting the high level of customer loyalty.

We were again recognised as the leading UK mobile network, with Rootmetrics naming EE as having the best overall mobile network. We also won the Speedtest fastest mobile network award in the period. We’re making good progress with extending our network, with 4G calling now available in Bristol, Hatfield, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast.

On 25 April we announced plans for 100% of customer service calls to be handled in the UK and Ireland by the end of 2016. We also announced plans to extend our 4G geographic coverage to 95% of the UK by 2020, from 60% today, significantly increasing the availability of 4G in even the most remote locations.

Operating costs were £794m (of which £69m were internal charges from other parts of the group) resulting in EBITDA of £261m, an EBITDA margin of 25%.
Capital expenditure was £111m as we extended 4G coverage to over 96% of the UK population. Preparation for the Emergency Services Network contract continued in line with agreed milestones. Operating cash flow of £310m (which excludes interest or tax) benefited from working capital movements.

So, this mast I mentioned had planning to be replaced?

https://goo.gl/maps/VgYvAcQ2geE2

Now been done, replaced by the new, larger dual input Lolipop type. No coverage map update for the area yet though!

The 4G calling page has been updated on the EE website.

Added: Kettering, Maindenhead, Slough and Straford Upon Avon

I've made a GitHub gist - for easy tracking https://gist.github.com/craigsansam/...48bd/revisions

Still seems completely unavailable here, used to be intermittent, nothing pretty much this whole week.

No why they are having trouble, Nottingham is pretty densely populated with very good 4G coverage.

Few more weeks and it'll be on everywhere...
To be honest it has more advantages for the network than the user.
If you make most of your calls over 3G now you aren't going to notice any difference other Than a faster call setup time to 4G/WC/Landlines.
Call setup to 2G/3G will still be slower.
The vast majority won't even know they are using it.

I think a lot will be freaked out when they here the intl dialling tone!

Nottingham's 3G coverage is very ropey - and when it does work it's normally voice only before it cuts you off Being able to make make a call over Hangouts and not on the EE network is taking the mick...