Re: O2 & Vodafone Mast Sharing

Anonymous · ‎22-09-2012

Hi Guys,

How will this work and when will it all start? Is is similar to the Orange/T-Mobile situation without the formal company merger - ie will we sometimes get 'vodafone' as a signal?

Or.. is it just that both companies are funding masts, and therefore can afford to put more up therefore increasing coverage for half the normal cost?

perksie · ‎22-09-2012

No, you'll always be showing as on O2, more here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/07/vodafonica/

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Anonymous · ‎19-08-2013

Hello,

Is there any news on the mast sharing?

I get o2 signal in the car park at work but its blocked inside by the building. I get about 1-2 bars on 2G inside. 😞

Voda, three and EE have masts on a hotel near my office so their signal is strong.

We use to use o2 for our work phones but the signal was to weak.

Martyn

perksie · ‎19-08-2013

@Anonymous wrote:
Is there any news on the mast sharing?

It's being done now but how long before any particular part of the country is done, we wouldn't know.

Hopefully with the 4G going in the other signals will improve too, but it will take until 2015 before this is complete across the whole country.

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Anonymous · ‎20-08-2013

What I was told by a Guru in one of the O2 shops is that O2 are only sharing masts with Vodafone, NOT signal (in the same way that Orange and T-Mobile started off).

SO sadly if you don't get a signal where Vodafone users do, I don't think that's likely to change much in the forseeable future

Anonymous · ‎30-08-2013

I was told I would be be able to use the Vodafone signal when I complained about the appalling network congestion here in the summer...

adamtemp64 · ‎30-08-2013

That was false information (where did you get it from)

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perksie · ‎30-08-2013

@Anonymous wrote:
I was told I would be be able to use the Vodafone signal when I complained about the appalling network congestion here in the summer...

I doubt you were told that here and unless you have re-registered with a new name this is your first question!

More here:

http://www.o2.co.uk/network/future

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Anonymous · ‎30-08-2013

Only good things can come from the mast sharing venture.

Anonymous · ‎04-09-2013

Not sure about that. Our only half-decent mobile signal is supplied by an O2 mast at the top end of the village. It's all on its own - everyone else (and including O2) has masts clustered on a couple of water towers between 1.5 and 2.5 miles away; and those signals are all mostly useless here.

Unfortunately this O2 mast is 2G only, so under any rationalisation plan it must be a candidate for the chop; added to which the industrial estate where it is located is due for redevelopment