Thanking you!

The roll out is largely software based in the many new areas ready to go 'Live", so it will continue to do so.. the only freezes are new product & physical upgrades by the engineers and contractors .

Yes a lot of sites have already been equipped with the 4G800 but waiting to be switched remoteley. I think EE are just doing it slowly and carefully. The EE team confirmed a lot of sites here around Reading having 4G800 but not live yet so may be they are doing it like the VoLTE roll out

In just about every major city and the extended outer city areas of the UK, the majority of the masts are ready for 800...

Can we have the LL and CH (north wales and cheshire) postcodes ran through please?

Sonnig Common mast now 4G800 live. Good job EE just keep switching more and more sites. I was in the area 2 days ago and no 4G800 but today live. Also a mast on A4074 beeng upgraded for 4G800 and will go live very soon.

I'd be interested to know this one too Particularly CH

I noticed they have removed a mast on the "Five Lane Ends" roundabout as well. That was a poor speed in Hallcroft before. I'm guessing it's 42 Mbps 3G and 150 Mbps (20Mhz) 4G now?

They seem to be very slow to update the coverage maps. I guess it's better to be showing worse coverage on the maps than them update them before the upgrades have happened and therefore people think the service is better than it is.

I agree, the signal is very weak up there. My sister can't get a signal downstairs in the sixth form (not as if she actually uses her phone much, unlike most her age) but she says some can so I can only assume they're on O2 or Vodafone.

I also think they need another mast up near my end of Ordsall. The signal isn't too bad on my estate but up the road where my Grandparents live (Gleneagles, Sunningdale, Wentworth, Ainsdale Green area), the signal is very weak even on 2G. I don't think any network is great but my Grandparents have basic phones on Vodafone and they seem to work alright. The other three networks are very weak there.

Has anyone noticed band 20 in the Peterborough area? Or could check please. I have noticed no increase in signal indoors but find it odd that I haven't with all the places I go to around Peterborough. I have a iPhone 7 so can't go into field test mode to confirm this. Thanks.

Thetford, Norfolk has 800MHz coverage from EE now:

5MHz - Band 20: https://s29.postimg.org/b9audfdtz/5_MHz_of_Band_20.png

20MHz - Band 20 (I think my phone got confused) https://s29.postimg.org/tdduy2bif/20_MHz_of_Band_20.png

That would have been 20MHz Band 3, especially since the signal strength of B3 was much weaker than B20.

Thetford really needs B20 on pretty much every mast, as the mast positioning isn't great and there are areas of poor or no coverage. Not all masts have B3 4G at the moment (I suspect they will have soon), but most have B1 3G, which was good when I last used it.
Having said that, last time I went up that way there was a mast that appeared to be B3 2G/4G only. It really needa B1 3G adding, as well as B20 4G, as coverage (in general) in Thetford and the surrounding area is poor for data on EE.

Next time I go up there I'll take a Giffgaff SIM with me so I can compare EE to O2 coverage - I suspect that O2 will be better due to B8 3G and B20 4G deployment.

I believe there is band 20 from the cell site near Van Hague. Should help with coverage in nearby Eye and Eye Green when on full power.

Something needs to happen at serpentine green shopping centre. Always has been dire here on EE, luckily it's covered with BT Wifi for wifi calling.

2G, 3G & 4G is now fully active on all Thetford masts and as such has always been the best performing network in the town. O2 and Vodafone have only recently activated just 1 mast so EE is definitely solid performance there.

Where abouts is that site?? I always get a strong 4g signal when shopping there, but never managed to see where the mast is. Eye could really do with b20 ee signal really bad there.

Eye/Eye Green has always been dire for EE signal.

The only mast that is anywhere near is an ex-O2 site right next to the village, which Vodafone have since started broadcasting on, thanks to CTIL. EE and Three do not have a mast nearby.

Three has turned on B20 4G from their closest site, which helps, but EE so far do not have anything (other than weak 2G, very weak 3G and very weak 4G). They need to either put in a planning app for a new mast there, or put B20 on at full power.

However, with B20 only having 5MHz bandwidth, EE (and Three) will be swamped easily. There needs to be a new mast there to have a chance at competing with CTIL in Eye/Eye Green.

Thanks for the info!
What about the outskirts of Thetford, notably A11/A134/A1066? Last time I was in that area EE was very intermittent.

Yes o2 and voda seems to have alot better coverage indoor and out for 4g in Peterborough area. They have even just enabled 4g in my village of thorney and installing a new mast in the centre village from what I can see from planning permissions. If ee don't up there game I may switch.

I know because I've recently moved out of Thetford. The A134 Legacy Orange EDGE mast between Barnham and Ingham is now fully 4G'ed but no 3G ! so another weird 2G/4G mast so no boost for 3 customers. Most masts along A11 stretch also 4G'ed with one still using orange antennas with Orange network code for 2G. A1066 route I'm not sure of as not been that way for a while.

The cell site is on the tall building near the A47/A15/A1139 interchange. The coverage api gives band 20 results from this site.

Ah I know where you mean now near the tip. I always thought that was a o2/voda site.

On the A11 around Brettenham Heath the signal is very low so band 20 from the mast at Larling could do with band 20.

Got 4G ok in Thetford Premier Inn and 3G at the High Lodge In Thetford Forest.

I thought so - that is the closest mast to that location that would possibly cover Eye/Eye Green. That really needs to have B20, though in an ideal world EE need to install a mast closer (there are plenty of fields close to Eye Green!).


Hmmm, EE sure do like their 2G/4G masts don't they? Unless they plan on adding 3G at a later date. When I was on the A1066 last time, 3G coverage was very poor and there was a lot of Orange 2G masts in that area. Not been that way for a couple of years so hoping that they have added 3G and 4G to those masts!

I don't know why EE are going for a 2G/4G approach. Maybe it is to do with planning applications (as 3G needs a separate cabinet), or maybe it is to try and hinder Three by not MBNL'ing the mast? Though having said that, if the lawsuit that Three filed in Summer 2016 is found in Three's favour then EE may be forced to MBNL/3G all of their masts.

The orange network code for 2G would be for fallback for Three customers, so assuming this is temporary until Three get 3G/4G. I believe that EE want to completely abolish the Orange code and have all of the masts under the same network code, as it'd be better for customers (most EE SIMs tend to ignore Orange masts unless there is nothing else to use).


EE do have a mast quite close to the center of thorney though at the moment it is Orange EDGE only.
EE/3 do have 3G (and maybe 4G, but can't be certain) from two masts on either edge of Thorney, at each end of the dual carriageway (Thorney Bypass) road. Coverage should be ok (especially when the Orange EDGE mast is 3G/4G'ed).

The ee mast at the beginning of the village has been enabled for 4g but seems the panels are facing away from the village towards eye. I can see a application for new panels for the 2g site u mention, which I'm hoping will enable me to have 4g in my home as my phone locks onto that mast as nearest to me and I revive good indoor 2g coverage.

Strangely as well recently another application by o2 has been summited to install panels on the orange/2g site which I didn't think was possible for o2 to have panels on a ee site.

So a lot of progress is going on in Thorney finally lol.

Does anyone know generally how long it takes for the upgrade to take place one planning permission have been approved??

EE have made good progress in integrating the Orange sites in the Stamford/Bourne area. Makes continuous coverage better with everything on the 234 30 code.

Not sure why they've turned off 3G on the pylon site near Bainton as Barnack now gets zilch 3G coverage. 2G is ok though. Hope it's temporary, the Tallington mast has gained 4G in the past few weeks so maybe it's associated with this.

Still Orange masts knocking around Bury St. Edmunds too which also broadcasts live 3G in 1/2 places, those masts appear to be forgotton.

Great Yarmouth is another classic example, there is a couple of Orange masts broadcasting where EE 4G has more than ample coverage, just left switched on like so. 3 customers can still to this day latch onto Orange code for 2G voice fall-back if they force roam despite 3G being present.

Brandon, Suffolk high street Orange 2G microcell still in full bloom.

Long live the Orange masts lol {not}