I get about 4-5 meg but it's very patchy and intermittent.
In Bristol before 4g I could get high 20s but would drop a lot when inside.
At home in Hereford I get about a solid 10.
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I get about 4-5 meg but it's very patchy and intermittent.
In Bristol before 4g I could get high 20s but would drop a lot when inside.
At home in Hereford I get about a solid 10.
Wow that's shockingly bad.
I have had faster 3G than that for the last 4 years with T-Mobile and now EE!
4G speeds on EE for me seem to average around 35mb and go up to 60mb, unless in the middle of the city centre or something.
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Three will hopefully have excellent 3G coverage if they re-purpose all of O2's 2G/3G sites for 3G.
O2's 2G coverage is great, if Three's 3G/4G coverage was that good, it'd be an amazing experience for most people.
O2's 2G coverage is great, if Three's 3G/4G coverage was that good, it'd be an amazing experience for most people.
That will never happen in the near future, 2G is used for too many things.
Makes me wonder who will buy Vodafone!
Someone has to. Else they will be pushed out of the market. Buy some shares?
I dunno how vodafone will compete in UK now.
Especially if BT buy EE
My three speeds are OK but unpredictable
Someone has to. Else they will be pushed out of the market. Buy some shares?
I dunno how vodafone will compete in UK now.
Especially if BT buy EE
My three speeds are OK but unpredictable
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Why not? The masts would still broadcast 2G...
Why would Vodafone go anywhere? They are a colossal company and are pretty much the go-to supplier for corporate contracts.
Quite interested to see how this turns out in the short term. I'm looking to switch to EE soon purely because I don't use a huge amount of data, and in the majority of places I frequently visit I get no signal whatsoever, leaving me out cold.
As far as I see it, it's a network that is starting to become oversubscribed combining with a network that is massively oversubscribed. I can't see how this'll go well in the short term, though big investment will move things along.
I think I'll end up switching to EE then come back in a few years time.
As far as I see it, it's a network that is starting to become oversubscribed combining with a network that is massively oversubscribed. I can't see how this'll go well in the short term, though big investment will move things along.
I think I'll end up switching to EE then come back in a few years time.
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This is what I'm trying to beat out of my VFUK friends but everyone's really chill about it and says it's no big deal as it would likely continue the deal with a buyer and at worse, because O2 are the injuring party, bank finds in vodafone in favour £100.
Voda own Voda UK and always have done. O2 used to be owned by BT who sold them to Telefonica. Telefonica keeps the lights on with O2UK and takes the money (arguably, the same for France Telecom and Orange back in the day). Voda won't sell their original market, it would be amount to treason the their shareholders, like Telefonica selling Spain or T-Mobile/T-Home selling up in Germany.
There are just some things you can't do in companies when they hit 9 figures.
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To me and my lack of real knowledge it seems Vodafone have to either
1 invest heavily in infrastructure
2 go cheap price
You now will have 2 very capable networks and vodafone.
It's not a good representation to go on personal experience but I don't know many people joining vodafone. Coverage is terrible
If BT do get their way and buy EE. They will have quite the package.
Broadband, landline, mobile, TV - with serious clout in all
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You said re-purposing 2G/3G sites to 3G only, so I assumed you meant utilising the 2G spectrum. What did you mean then? If they are already 2G/3G sites then they will already have 3G.
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They would re-purpose the O2 masts to broadcast Three 3G and 4G, giving excellent Three coverage that would be (technically) as good as O2's current 2G coverage, i.e. amazing.
Trouble is, what about the 2G coverage?
There was a rumour that Vodafone is going to buy Liberty Global who own Virgin Media in the UK and UPC Broadband in Ireland and mainland Europe. They'd get serious clout as a quad play provider if that went through...
Probably get removed. Even in remote places, I've got Three's 3G signal as strongly as I would have got O2's 2G.
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If they deployed 3G on 800MHz like O2 have done in some places, it would work on all of Three's old 3G-only devices. Then you would also have 800MHz on 4G which means that Three would be the best indoor network coverage wise.