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liggerz87
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Screenshot_20180714-151050_1.jpgIMAG0021_1.jpg this is a 3g mast between Vodafone and o2 thought to show for the curiosity

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Interesting photo and article, thanks for sharing @liggerz87 and @pgn!

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@pgn

 

I hate to be the one to tell you this but last I checked, O2 was using a combination of Virgin Media Business and BT Wholesale for backhaul links to the core network.

 

Yes, I'm no fan of BT either.

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That does not surprise me, @Anonymous - even AT&T use BT from Glasgow to reach out to this corner of the world - almost vmincestuous in nature are the relationship between Telecomms providers. 

 

Ever heard of Hibernia Atlantic? Now GTT, I think -- an ambitiously low-latency network of transatlantic fibres, originally targeting financial institutions, but probably part of somebody else's "backbone network". . . 

 

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Yes, the ISP I use used to have a router housed in what was Telx New York (now owned by Digital Realty) and they connected to Hibernia's cables at Southport.

 

As you say they are now part oif GTT.

 

They use GTT and NTT for transit.

 

One of the other reasons I picked them (apart from the superb support when it is required).

 

They did terminate ADSL on their own exchange kit but FTTP still terminates on BT's kit and they hand traffic off, just like with a lot of ADSL providers.

 

Still I cannot complain.

 

But we digress.

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Perish the thought that a Community Off-topic post and subsequent discussion should digress, @Anonymous Crazy LOL

 

Looks like BT and EE are having their own difficulties providing the "blue lights" network for emergency services' use. Not enough backbone infra in remote locations, perhaps?   Interestingly, the report below cites 2020 as a date by wish all carriers have to have fulfilled their obigations - makes you wonder why 2020, specifically... 

 

I hope the FT paywall does not interfere with the link below:

 

Vodafone asks for EE to map out access to new UK network

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Alas the paywall got in the way.

 

While there's always been SIM access priority (Government/Emergency Services at the top, followed by operator engineers, then customers) I'd have thought they might want to segregate emergency traffic completely from commercial traffic even though it would be expensive for the Home Office to roll out it's own network of course though considering the cost of the project already that might have been cheaper by the time the roll out was complete.

 

There was an interesting discussion on a mobile network related forum I used to help moderate about the possibility of a national grid type of network which all the operators share with signals being mutlplexed.

 

It would mean that coverage was uniform and the providers could compete on price alone although it's been some years since I've seen coverage claims in mobile network ads, does anyone care about that anymore?

 

Will definitely be interesting to see what happens.

 

 

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