Best news ever - mobile mast sharing

Jez said:
Bear - are you referring to "Three"? (The only network with notably less coverage than the others).
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Funnily enough, Three's network consistently gives me a better signal throughout my area than O2, Vodafone and EE, often giving coverage where their coverage map says i'll get nothing.
 
O2 were/still are crap in my area. Constantly dropped calls or phone not ringing at all and texts taking hours to come through. After 10 years since being with them since Cellnet/Genie Mobile I ditched them for Three 3 years ago.
 
this is of no consequence for me, i run out of signal only in places where other networks have long since died.

what they need to do is have this but eu wide, roaming charges are ridiculous to the point its cheaper to buy a £10 phone there than to top up.
 
adolf hamster said:
this is of no consequence for me, i run out of signal only in places where other networks have long since died.

what they need to do is have this but eu wide, roaming charges are ridiculous to the point its cheaper to buy a £10 phone there than to top up.
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pretty sure roaming charges to eu countries are being dealt with already, sure I read they were being removed...

As to the newest brainwave from the government... not really going to do much when my 2 strongest 'signals' come from within 20m's of each other yet one fails to give me phone calls except by a window if I'm lucky (t-mobile and 3, which has no signal) and the other is useless for data (vodafone - and lower output than the other) because it can only just manage 2g/edge but I can make a phone call anywhere in the house. There's supposedly an orange mast closer to me but clearly it's rubbish as I don't even pick it up.

Even if they share the mast the fact that vodafone's mast doesn't give me 3g means that no one else would be able to give me 3g either via that mast without it being upgraded.. well considering vodafone haven't done it for themselves the likelihood of them doing it on a 'shared' mast is laughable.

I'd much prefer the govenment to get on top of the agreed 3g/4g rollout by the likes of vodafone because they're behind schedule by over a year and they've not even been fined from what I can make out
 
adolf hamster said:
what they need to do is have this but eu wide, roaming charges are ridiculous to the point its cheaper to buy a £10 phone there than to top up.
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That one has already been sorted....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ment-votes-to-ban-mobile-roaming-charges.html

Although no doubt the mobile operators will find away around it. My fear is they will just up their regular call prices and give you more free minutes (but only allow you to use the free minutes in the UK thereby effectively restoring roaming fees by the back door).
 
Given that phones can communicate with masts a fair distance away, is there any technical reason why phones couldn't directly communicate with each other at short range without going through a mast?
 
Westyfield2 said:
Given that phones can communicate with masts a fair distance away, is there any technical reason why phones couldn't directly communicate with each other at short range without going through a mast?
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None at all. You just have to shoehorn in the transceiver and antenna for the comms technology of choice into the handset.

Low power VHF PMR would be my choice.
 
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