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Old 29-11-2016, 08:12
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Not able to see the 800 i spotted a few times a few weeks back, must be locked down now ready to be rolled out "properly"
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Old 29-11-2016, 08:23
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I'm occasionally connecting to very weak 800MHz on my Pixel but no data flows and calls don't work.
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Old 29-11-2016, 08:41
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I'm occasionally connecting to very weak 800MHz on my Pixel but no data flows and calls don't work.
with me only calls but no data. this was last wednesday. tomorrow going to the same place and will check again
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Old 29-11-2016, 23:44
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Genuine question #1:

Has anyone seen any accessible 4G 800 coverage that they hadn't seen before last Tuesday yet?

Genuine question #2:

Has the coverage checker changed at all in the same timeframe?

Genuine question #3:

Has this all been an elaborate scam?
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Old 29-11-2016, 23:51
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The map gets updated on Thursday. But people should have access before in batches, but who knows who? Or if in reality they all go live on Thursday but EE says batches because a handful got done sooner (like media or something).
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Old 30-11-2016, 01:25
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Gotta be the 1st I would have thought. There's been no reports of anyone anywhere seeing it live. Assuming it will be like the Three map you will see it if you enter a compatible phone.
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Old 30-11-2016, 04:03
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Genuine question #1:

Has anyone seen any accessible 4G 800 coverage that they hadn't seen before last Tuesday yet?

Genuine question #2:

Has the coverage checker changed at all in the same timeframe?

Genuine question #3:

Has this all been an elaborate scam?
#1: I haven't seen any more.

#2: Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but there's lots of stuff in the coverage map code (accessed using F12 key) relating to 800, including this: http://i.imgur.com/ypxAqpK.png

#3: I believe 800 will help a lot in rural and indoor locations. Not everyone will notice an immediate difference on the 1st of December (assuming that's when the first sites go live), but I think we'll gradually see more being rolled out over the coming months. EE needs good coverage for ESN.
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Old 30-11-2016, 08:02
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Genuine question #1:

Has anyone seen any accessible 4G 800 coverage that they hadn't seen before last Tuesday yet?

Genuine question #2:

Has the coverage checker changed at all in the same timeframe?

Genuine question #3:

Has this all been an elaborate scam?
1. I have last wednesday 1/2 bars in area RG9 5LP and going today to check again if it is still there. I will write later to inform
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Old 30-11-2016, 08:09
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georgi prodanov ‏@jorodayoffa 11h
@EE Guys today is nearly a week you told me that provisioning accounts so tell me something else but not that lie
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@jorodayoffa It's still within that week you see Georgi. Which device do you have? DM with more info. AJ
georgi prodanov ‏@jorodayoffa 11h
@EE I have iphone se which is volte capable and sim only with EE so should be getting 4G800?
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@jorodayoffa In that case Georgi, you're good to go, keep an eye out here http://ee.co.uk/why-ee/mobile-coverage …. AJ
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Old 30-11-2016, 08:18
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A mate of mine came over with his swanky new iphone 7 plus and I mentioned that EE have rolled out 800mhz so was not expecting much from a speed test however.

Normally 4g in my house is below 2mbit down and 0.5 up now it's 2 to 3 bars (better than 1 or 2) and 40 down 20 up which is not much slower than vodafone on full 4g signal where I get 50 down 20 up.

Now wondering if my google pixel phone supports 800mhz?
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Old 30-11-2016, 08:24
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A mate of mine came over with his swanky new iphone 7 plus and I mentioned that EE have rolled out 800mhz so was not expecting much from a speed test however.

Normally 4g in my house is below 2mbit down and 0.5 up now it's 2 to 3 bars (better than 1 or 2) and 40 down 20 up which is not much slower than vodafone on full 4g signal where I get 50 down 20 up.

Now wondering if my google pixel phone supports 800mhz?
Check which band the phone uses. Should be band 20 for 4G800
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Old 30-11-2016, 08:28
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Check which band the phone uses. Should be band 20 for 4G800
Just checked and it does
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Old 30-11-2016, 08:56
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Pixel does support 800, I've been on it with mine. Albeit before it was "locked down" of course.
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Old 30-11-2016, 09:32
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A mate of mine came over with his swanky new iphone 7 plus and I mentioned that EE have rolled out 800mhz so was not expecting much from a speed test however.

Normally 4g in my house is below 2mbit down and 0.5 up now it's 2 to 3 bars (better than 1 or 2) and 40 down 20 up which is not much slower than vodafone on full 4g signal where I get 50 down 20 up.

Now wondering if my google pixel phone supports 800mhz?
40Mbps down would have been 1800MHz though since theoretical max for 800MHz (5MHz bandwidth) is 37Mbps but you'll rarely see more than 30Mbps in real life, more normally 5-20Mbps.
Either that or it was 1800+800 CA (4G+). Not 800 in it's own though.

All current new smartphones support all EE LTE bands. 2600/1800/800.
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Old 30-11-2016, 09:36
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georgi prodanov ‏@jorodayoffa 11h
@EE Guys today is nearly a week you told me that provisioning accounts so tell me something else but not that lie
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@jorodayoffa It's still within that week you see Georgi. Which device do you have? DM with more info. AJ
georgi prodanov ‏@jorodayoffa 11h
@EE I have iphone se which is volte capable and sim only with EE so should be getting 4G800?
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@jorodayoffa In that case Georgi, you're good to go, keep an eye out here http://ee.co.uk/why-ee/mobile-coverage …. AJ
Why did you accuse them of lying when all accounts will be done by tomorrow. Even if you were the only one not done, they'd not be lying!

Now if you're not done by close of play tomorrow then you can say it!
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Old 30-11-2016, 13:53
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When does EE go live with the ESN? As it stands right now in my area they are still going to struggle to provide a robust service even with 800mhz as they simply refuse to touch any of these old rural 2g orange masts.
They share a lot of the mbnl rural mast sites with Vodafone or O2, roughly based on there 2g coverage they might get by outdoors but inside old buildings or difficult terrain they could struggle, orange was the only network to address the blackspots by adding a number of masts near potential problem areas, notably, airwave also added additional independent masts sites to provide adequate coverage.
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Old 30-11-2016, 13:58
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A mate of mine came over with his swanky new iphone 7 plus and I mentioned that EE have rolled out 800mhz so was not expecting much from a speed test however.

Normally 4g in my house is below 2mbit down and 0.5 up now it's 2 to 3 bars (better than 1 or 2) and 40 down 20 up which is not much slower than vodafone on full 4g signal where I get 50 down 20 up.

Now wondering if my google pixel phone supports 800mhz?
That wouldn't be 4G800. From what I have been told EE only have 5MHz 800MHz and 5MHz 4G capacity is limited to 35Mbps maximum. Will likely be lower though.
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Old 30-11-2016, 14:06
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Went into London today and left LTE Discovery do tracking, and it didn't find any band 20 anywhere (even in a tunnel where Three will switch to 4G800) so I guess I'm either not provisioned yet, or London isn't getting much 800 yet.
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Old 30-11-2016, 19:48
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Why did you accuse them of lying when all accounts will be done by tomorrow. Even if you were the only one not done, they'd not be lying!

Now if you're not done by close of play tomorrow then you can say it!
I think it is not just provisioning accounts but there is something else EE do no tell us. That is why I told them not to speak lies as last Wednesday had 4G800 and this week nothing. So this is a lie to me as something has gone wrong and they keep their mouths shut about it. First they said they switched 4G800 then they said need to provision accounts. Rubbish
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Old 30-11-2016, 19:52
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In EEs press release video it showed the expansion in coverage on the December 2016 slide not the November 2016 one so lets see what happens tomorrow.

Anybody had any @800 leaflet drops recently?
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Old 30-11-2016, 20:06
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In EEs press release video it showed the expansion in coverage on the December 2016 slide not the November 2016 one so lets see what happens tomorrow.

Anybody had any @800 leaflet drops recently?
Yes, last week. AL10 post code.
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Old 30-11-2016, 20:07
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I think it is not just provisioning accounts but there is something else EE do no tell us. That is why I told them not to speak lies as last Wednesday had 4G800 and this week nothing. So this is a lie to me as something has gone wrong and they keep their mouths shut about it. First they said they switched 4G800 then they said need to provision accounts. Rubbish
EE will have been planning this event for many months. It will go like clockwork. They will have carefully planned the switch on to the last letter and to allow specific devices only. To allow this surely they would have had to remove all access and then activate a limited range of devices. I'm no expert in this by any means, but you'd be pretty naive to think they're stumbling through this not having a clue what they're doing. It's not their first rodeo!

As far as I have read and digested, 1st December is the day that we will be graced with this extended coverage, and at the last check, it's only the 30th November at time of writing.
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Old 30-11-2016, 22:54
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Exactly. Save the accusations until the end of tomorrow!
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Old 30-11-2016, 23:19
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Could be midnight......
Could be...
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Old 30-11-2016, 23:33
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Exactly. Save the accusations until the end of tomorrow!
But Jon, that's not the modern way!

Get incredibly angry and wound up, and scream and shout about it on all forms of social media, that's how things are done nowadays.

Waiting a day or two and excercising some patience... get real! Now now now! Waa waa waa!
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