Three and Vodafone are merging!

Indeed, wasn't joking earlier that Vodafone really went downhill at my work, barely get few Mbps or just no service at all despite showing 5G quite often now.

Probably time to switch to EE MVNO of some kind.
 
We just got vodaphone internet through openreach cant fault it. I have my phone through 3 atm, i wonder if they will do a similar thing to virgin/O2 where you save on internet + phone deals. Signal is good for me at home in Plymouth but i notice its terrible when i travel sometimes in big cities such as London. You would hope that signal will improve for everyone on either network, win win.
 
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Vodafone does the first video call over satellite that uses a regular cellphone

Vodafone's partner, AST SpaceMobile, claims to be the first and only mobile broadband provider in space whose satellites work with regular 4G and 5G phones.
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Vodafone, in partnership with AST SpaceMobile, has completed the first video call over satellite using a normal 4G/5G smartphone. The call came from a remote location in Wales – which had never had high-speed cell connectivity before

Probably a big increase to your monthly bill when commercially available!
 
pewpew said:
We just got vodaphone internet through openreach cant fault it. I have my phone through 3 atm, i wonder if they will do a similar thing to virgin/O2 where you save on internet + phone deals. Signal is good for me at home in Plymouth but i notice its terrible when i travel sometimes in big cities such as London. You would hope that signal will improve for everyone on either network, win win.
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They already offer discount on Broadband if you have mobile (Vodafone), I'd imagine in the long run that both brands won't be maintained; they're too similar (i.e they're both mobile companies).

Its not like BT/EE or Virgin/O2 where one company was very much a Broadband/Fixed Line Company and the other a Mobile Network.
 
neoboy said:
Indeed, wasn't joking earlier that Vodafone really went downhill at my work, barely get few Mbps or just no service at all despite showing 5G quite often now.

Probably time to switch to EE MVNO of some kind.
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Second this, re-joined Vodafone recently and data speeds are abysmal, Three were better, though I regret coming off of EE, I guess in this instance you do get what you pay for :rolleyes:
 
Space Monkey said:
Second this, re-joined Vodafone recently and data speeds are abysmal, Three were better, though I regret coming off of EE, I guess in this instance you do get what you pay for :rolleyes:
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Thats the only think around where I live data speeds are awful....go half a mile up the road they are great so hit and miss.
 
They just plucked that figure for the headlines as it sounds like a lot being a billion, but as above, it's a relatively small figure in grand scheme of infrastructure costs in a country like UK.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
I wouldn’t get too excited, £1b sounds like a lot but in the context of a national cellular network, it’s not.
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Yep.

Vodafone paid that for Cable and Wireless (and Energis's pylon based fibre network) back in 2012, accounting for inflation that's £1.5 billion in today's money. That was a whole company, sites, snaps, pops, colos and everything inbetween.

Granted it should have been a LOT more, but Messers Pluthero and Marsh did a sterling job smashing the shareprice down from £2.30 to 18p in 5 years to make them an attractive takeover target.

Vodafone paid pennies on the pound and made a near overnight saving shifting all their backhaul from BT to their own network. Alas I digress. :D
 
Need 5GSA rolled out properly across the UK. Once that happens then proper 5G capabilities can be rolled out like QCI, Slicing, MPNs etc.... hopefully the merger will accelerate that.
 
Well 3 can't get any worse.

Terrible signals here in Sheffield and ditto the vast majority of other places I have been to in the UK
 
Freefaller said:
Need 5GSA rolled out properly across the UK. Once that happens then proper 5G capabilities can be rolled out like QCI, Slicing, MPNs etc.... hopefully the merger will accelerate that.
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Yeah, just gone 6 years since 5g first came to UK. Needs to hurry up.

To be fair I get ok 5g NSA performance here with Talk Mobile. Just over 200mb download and 60mb upload. Not as quick as EE or Three but certainly acceptable.
 
robj20 said:
So what should we expect, better signal all around?
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There will be more spectrum for VodafoneThree to offer its customers. But the MOCN will take a while to roll out. But it also opens up mmWave opportunities but that's still got some exploring to do.

Firegod said:
Yeah, just gone 6 years since 5g first came to UK. Needs to hurry up.

To be fair I get ok 5g NSA performance here with Talk Mobile. Just over 200mb download and 60mb upload. Not as quick as EE or Three but certainly acceptable.
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The UK is generally way behind. Too much bureaucracy compared to other countries, especially Asian environments.
 
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I can’t really see the point of mmWave for a phone, your hand which holds the phone can literally block the signal.

Likewise, what are you doing on your phone that needs that kind of speed.

mmWave is great for applications where you can put a big antenna on the device so it doesn’t get blocked by the environment it’s in but for almost all of those applications, you are better off just digging a trench, installing conduit and pulling in fibre.

There was talk about it being great for autonomous vehicles etc but it seems things have moved on and it just not being required with all the processing being able to be done locally.
 
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