About 15 months ago I posted about the difficulties service service providers have in getting a new mast installed in a rural location. (E.g. finding site, planning permission, power supplies etc.) At that time, the planning application for a mast nearby was a year old and nothing had started at the site. I understand the mast is for O2 and possibly Vodafone services.
The site is about a mile away from me but in line of sight. A few weeks ago a mast suddenly appeared and yesterday, some aerial covers (?) were visible. Today there was more excitement that caused me to get my binoculars! Two operatives (male I think) were at the top of the mast. They had white hard hats, yellow safety harnesses and were wearing shorts.
One thing I hadn't appreciated was how big the aerial/covers are. They are person sized.
Perhaps it won't be too long now before things are switched on. The mobile signal is very patchy. Currently I am getting 4G (LTE) but the signal strength is -112dBm (28 asu) which is on the limits of usability.
Coverage from all mobile operators is bad here, with O2 probably the best. In April I had a landline fault that took 2 weeks to fix. When the Openreach engineer came he had problems testing the line as he couldn't get a mobile signal!
