I was told launched sites are at full power. But there are many more sites than the 700 that went live.
I don't know why they're not live too, but that's the situation we're in. Maybe another batch will go live in the new year, or they're planning to stagger the switch on to fit around other network upgrade work.
I am hoping to visit EE's test centre in the new year, to see the 1GB/s trial they're doing, and also go to their Faraday cages (as I did with Vodafone in 2015) to have a look around. Maybe I'll find out more, but I have to assume that there's a well thought out plan.
We must remember that there are costs and budgets, and also limited numbers of engineering staff. It may sound sensible to just go live with every site the second it's upgraded, but clearly there's a level of testing and integration and only so many hours in the day. They're still upgrading Orange sites to 4G and also optimising and upgrading existing sites to cope with congestion.
All of this is ongoing and happening at the same time. Then there are VoLTE issues that many are suffering, which also needs to be looked at.
As far as I can tell, nobody is worse off than they were this time last week. SOME are better off. Many WILL be better off, but have to wait a bit.
It's Christmas in a week, so I think we shouldn't expect much to happen for the next few weeks. What I would like now is for the coverage checker to be improved to show 800 (or not, as the case may be). I think they're having problems with that too, but there's a big relaunch of the whole website in the pipeline so maybe it will come with that.
I don't know why they're not live too, but that's the situation we're in. Maybe another batch will go live in the new year, or they're planning to stagger the switch on to fit around other network upgrade work.
I am hoping to visit EE's test centre in the new year, to see the 1GB/s trial they're doing, and also go to their Faraday cages (as I did with Vodafone in 2015) to have a look around. Maybe I'll find out more, but I have to assume that there's a well thought out plan.
We must remember that there are costs and budgets, and also limited numbers of engineering staff. It may sound sensible to just go live with every site the second it's upgraded, but clearly there's a level of testing and integration and only so many hours in the day. They're still upgrading Orange sites to 4G and also optimising and upgrading existing sites to cope with congestion.
All of this is ongoing and happening at the same time. Then there are VoLTE issues that many are suffering, which also needs to be looked at.
As far as I can tell, nobody is worse off than they were this time last week. SOME are better off. Many WILL be better off, but have to wait a bit.
It's Christmas in a week, so I think we shouldn't expect much to happen for the next few weeks. What I would like now is for the coverage checker to be improved to show 800 (or not, as the case may be). I think they're having problems with that too, but there's a big relaunch of the whole website in the pipeline so maybe it will come with that.





would love to see a zoomed in south midlands worcestershire area