EE good network?
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In Hull one of the first in the country to get 4g we only have EE and I have to say its blisteringly fast 40mb down 20mb up , just sold my lumia 735 and looking at one plus one . Getting back to EE the only thing I don't like is the fact that if you get a £15 everything top up and use your data you have to buy data bundles in 500mb bundles which is expensive . So I have got round this buy buying the £25 pack with 4gb of data so just enough data and loads of calls. If you can get it Luca mobile have just started a £15 top up with 6gb yes 6gb of data on 4g not sure who they piggyback but that's amazing best of luck
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They are not the best for indoor coverage due to the frequencies they use.
Coverage seems excellent in my area, according to the checker on the EE website.
After googling though, heard people saying on reviews they have been overcharged on bills etc. I don't know if its just sour grapes or something they have done wrong on their part. Always been an O2 guy but their 4g coverage is average compared to EE imo.
After googling though, heard people saying on reviews they have been overcharged on bills etc. I don't know if its just sour grapes or something they have done wrong on their part. Always been an O2 guy but their 4g coverage is average compared to EE imo.
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The 800MHz band is not currently used and won't be rolled out nationwide, leaving mostly high-frequency spectrum for use in cities, with some 800MHz used in rural areas.
If the Three and O2 merger is allowed to go ahead, I believe they will have the best indoor coverage. Three are to roll out significant amounts of 800MHz 4G soon so they will have better indoor coverage anyway.
EE is not the best choice if all you want to do is make a phone call. Vodafone or O2 will be better for that. For data, yes they will be much better - O2/Vodafone are **** for that.
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EE data and all round
02 for calls and texts
my missus is with 02 and me EE she normally has at least one bar all around the country where as when driving i can some times go for ages before i pick a signal up again
I'd say Vodafone for calls just because they have HD voice. O2's voice quality is poor. Coverage is basically the same.
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I moved from Vodafone to EE and the difference is like night and day. Def a good move.
Orange had "HD Voice" 3 years ago to complete the picture. Voice quality on both is almost identical now thanks to the network sharing aside from the wideband audio.
800Mhz will be rolled out nearly everywhere, I don't know where you're getting the impression it won't be - all the networks who have 800Mhz will try to use it in the majority due to its better profile and user experience.
The website you linked to is factually correct in the table but is a pretty average interpretation of the current spectrum and it's owned by EE so massively bias
The table can be interpreted many ways and tbh while EE have the biggest total amount of BW they also only optioned a 5Mhz pair at 800 when they really needed more with their capacity requirement due to their high customer number. The 800 10Mhz pairs were the gold in this auction, EE cheaped out and decided to go for the higher freq pairs / sit on the 1800 and run a small risk in having to deploy more cells later (4G sites don't shrink like 3G, they just have a max user limit). It was the best value for money call, re use the "free" 1800Mhz band they have to carry their customers and deliver an ok service rather than spend a lot for the premium tiers. O2 bet the farm on the 800, Voda bet on a mix.
used them for years!The customer side is a little bad but on the whole they are good!Good to know, thanks.Orange had "HD Voice" 3 years ago to complete the picture. Voice quality on both is almost identical now thanks to the network sharing aside from the wideband audio.
800Mhz will be rolled out nearly everywhere, I don't know where you're getting the impression it won't be - all the networks who have 800Mhz will try to use it in the majority due to its better profile and user experience.
The website you linked to is factually correct in the table but is a pretty average interpretation of the current spectrum and it's owned by EE so massively bias
The table can be interpreted many ways and tbh while EE have the biggest total amount of BW they also only optioned a 5Mhz pair at 800 when they really needed more with their capacity requirement due to their high customer number. The 800 10Mhz pairs were the gold in this auction, EE cheaped out and decided to go for the higher freq pairs / sit on the 1800 and run a small risk in having to deploy more cells later (4G sites don't shrink like 3G, they just have a max user limit). It was the best value for money call, re use the "free" 1800Mhz band they have to carry their customers and deliver an ok service rather than spend a lot for the premium tiers. O2 bet the farm on the 800, Voda bet on a mix.
Any chance EE will buy more/larger 800MHz pairs?
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I don't think so. They're actually having to give up some spectrum to Three.
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Orange had "HD Voice" 3 years ago to complete the picture. Voice quality on both is almost identical now thanks to the network sharing aside from the wideband audio.
800Mhz will be rolled out nearly everywhere, I don't know where you're getting the impression it won't be - all the networks who have 800Mhz will try to use it in the majority due to its better profile and user experience.
The website you linked to is factually correct in the table but is a pretty average interpretation of the current spectrum and it's owned by EE so massively bias
The table can be interpreted many ways and tbh while EE have the biggest total amount of BW they also only optioned a 5Mhz pair at 800 when they really needed more with their capacity requirement due to their high customer number. The 800 10Mhz pairs were the gold in this auction, EE cheaped out and decided to go for the higher freq pairs / sit on the 1800 and run a small risk in having to deploy more cells later (4G sites don't shrink like 3G, they just have a max user limit). It was the best value for money call, re use the "free" 1800Mhz band they have to carry their customers and deliver an ok service rather than spend a lot for the premium tiers. O2 bet the farm on the 800, Voda bet on a mix.
Three are concentrating far more on 800MHz than EE are but they are both rolling it out as you stated.
It's all gone now but the 1800 band is an OK mix halfway house, not great at anything but not bad. I think if I were EE I might try and use some radio spectrum to fill in the last mile connectivity hole for their fixed network (not sure if they are technically allowed to do this mind you but it would be very awesome)
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EE have a pretty good spectrum holding, along with Vodafone. Three are good with O2 worst. Although this will change if Hutchison are allowed to buy O2 UK.
This will allow really fast speeds now and in the future I just wish EE would start rolling out 800MHz to rural areas now as they suffer due to the poor penetration of the 1800/2100MHz bands.