4G in Belfast

[Nisky]

Getting a 4G signal in Belfast  (BT4) Stormont area. Hope it's not just for the Giro D'Italia to fool the visiting media.

[Anonymous]

@MI5 That Status Checker is away with the fairies methinks.  It says no 4G in this area or in Belfast  - yet we have customers reporting to the Community how good the 4G is in both places.

Furthermore the Status Checker is still reporting " Sorry we are experiencing high service demand in this area

A mast close to your location is experiencing a high level of demand for service. This can cause intermittent service for calls, texts and data. We’re working to improve it as quickly as we can. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Updated 21:00 (refreshed hourly).  

It has been saying that for weeks now.  The high demand is probably caused by frustrated customers trying to contact O2 to find out when the bleeping thing will be fixed.

Gerry 

[MI5]

Ahhh, I'm guessing it's still not fully up and running 100% then yet.....
Maybe try a walk around the area tomorrow and see if it pops up anywhere

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous

On mine I have LTE/4G/3G/2G as the option so not sure why yours is different. Mine came from CPW and was sim free, yours I guess is locked to o2. Shouldn't make a difference though.

[MI5]

It will be an O2 ROM, I would guess and they have chosen to name it that way - Maybe it's consistency across all o2 branded ROM's.....?

[Anonymous]

Yes @Anonymous I got mine direct from O2 (ordered online) and it is locked to O2.  I think the SIM is probably Ok as I have had a few fleeting sightings of 4g but they have been few in number and not very stable.  I will, as suggested earlier, have a wander round the the town to see if I can identify any 4G "hot spots".

Thanks again for all your help.

Gerry

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous  Wowee! and again I say WOW!!!    Was visiting a friend in another part of the town tonight - someone who has neither a mobile phone nor a computer.  I said I woudl look something up in Google for her - and to my astonishment and delight noticed the 4G icon in the status bar.  I then did a speedtest and recorded download of 48.52 Mbps and upload of 22.88Mbps  (my usual speeds on wifi at home ae 49 and 16 respectively.)

Of course when i returned home the 4G has disappeared, but at keast I know now that my phone can cope with 4G and it has arrived in the general area.

So no more groaning and griping from me on this subject - promise.

Gerry

[MI5]

It had to be a location related issue. Glad you're sorted

[Anonymous]

Yes indeed @MI5 The area where I got the signal is slightly more elevated than where I live.

[Anonymous]

Great news @Gerry. Now you know your phone is 4g ready so whenever you go into 4g covered areas your phone should pick up fast signal.

The temptation to do speed tests is immense but please be aware some speed tests can use between 50mb and 100mb of data each time.

Don't want you running out of 4g data now do we? ?? ☺

[Markojemo]

What area did you get the 4G in Gerry? Still nothing in north, south belfast or city centre