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4G in Durham - hurrah

Fellwalker — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:51:19 GMT

A month ago I got a text from O2 telling me that 4G was coming. A few days later, there it was.

It is a better 4G signal than I used to get GSM. Marvellous

Thanks.

The university students have now arrived back so let's hope that extra capacity has been built in, so that reception doesn't die off when they're all using it.

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MI5 — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:06:36 GMT

It's about time too for that area.
Always been poor in the past.

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Fellwalker — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:28:25 GMT

It still is poor round the centre. Too many hills. Also it is in the north east, so we don't have enough people to matter to enough carriers. Oh for mast sharing so we could have them spread out instead of clustered. .

O2 was always the only one to get ANY signal at home ; now it is better.

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MI5 — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:29:43 GMT

You could always move to Sunderland

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Toby — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:54:13 GMT

Good to hear @Fellwalker.

Do let us know how you get on after a few days/weeks.

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Cleoriff — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:00:57 GMT

Well I was fully expecting to get mine on the 30th of last month....not a flutter...:smileysad:

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Anonymous — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:51:09 GMT

Waiting patiently for 4G to land in Lancaster and Morecambe. EE currently have it here so presumably are mopping up all of the university students too

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Fellwalker — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:36:21 GMT

@MI5

I nearly clicked the "Accept as a solution" button

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MI5 — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:36:55 GMT

Booming 4g all over there mate

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jonsie — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 08:42:34 GMT

We have good 4G in Manchester but get to the airport and you are lucky to see E displayed. I would have thought that major airports would all have 4G. Is it just Manchester or are other airports the same?

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YorkieRay1 — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:41:38 GMT

I was at Gatwick a couple of weeks ago and there was no 4G there. The coverage map says there should be, but even that map states that it does not reach the long stay car parks and that 4G is very patchy in the area of the airport. Inside the North Terminal it was 3G only and I never connected to 4G whilst I was there.

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Anonymous — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:28:52 GMT

Does anyone know how or where I can find out future coverage plans? I've been with O2 since Cellnet days and yet, for the first time, I'm thinking of changing provider! O2 use Vodaphone network too we are told, but Voda, EE and 3 all have 4G coverage in Consett area - why not O2. I know we have a lot of hills here - but Consett is on top of one! Most of the locallity is voice and texts only, but I can be patient if the situation will be changing, but how can I find out?

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MI5 — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:32:52 GMT

You can't as O2 don't release them I'm afraid.

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Anonymous — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:57:18 GMT

Thanks for the answer - even if it's not what I wanted to hear I appreciate it.

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Fellwalker — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:03:20 GMT

I'd been asking about rubbish coverage in Durham for years. (Mind you, O2 was the ONLY one to have any coverage at home.) We live on top of a hill and if I lived a hundred yards nearer the mast, I'd have been just over the brow and would have had a good 3G signal. Now they've managed to get 4G here from the same mast.

We got a hint about a 4G trial about 6 months ago, but nothing concrete, then out of the blue a text saying it was on its way.

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jonsie — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:56:16 GMT

Plans are known to a select few. I could tell you but then I would have to kill you

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MI5 — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:47:32 GMT

The only warning you might get that 4g is coming is by entering your postcode in the status pages. Sometimes it may say that 4g work is being done on your local mast, but it's no guarantee.....

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Cleoriff — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:26:46 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
The only warning you might get that 4g is coming is by entering your postcode in the status pages. Sometimes it may say that 4g work is being done on your local mast, but it's no guarantee.....

As we have found...Living with such high expectations 2 weeks ago....and then nothing...

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MI5 — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:31:51 GMT

Yeah, still nothing showing....

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jonsie — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:43:10 GMT

It's ok I've had a word...