O2 UK Boost 4G and 5G Mobile at 700 Postcodes in Dundee, Scotland
Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today announced that they’ve completed a project to upgrade the network capacity and coverage of their 4G and 5G mobile (mobile broadband) services around a total of 700 postcodes across the coastal Scottish city of Dundee on the Firth of Tay estuary.
The upgrades, which took 12 months to deploy, form part of O2’s Mobile Transformation Plan, which is investing around £700m this year into their mobile network – “ensuring it is fit for the future and can keep up with increasing customer demand“.
All mobile network operators have to conduct similar work, so this is not unusual and comes against a backdrop of rising demand (i.e. the amount of mobile data traffic more than doubling on O2’s network in the past 5 years). Not to mention the need to withdraw their old 3G network. Sadly that’s all the information we get.
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Sorry VMO2, your coverage may be better signal in some places than other mobile operators, but your data speeds are usually pants in most places (accepting that there are some that are OK). Fanny is with an MVNO on EE after being on O2 (yes, Fanny supports the BT/EE mobile network, just not directly as Fanny likes a cheap deal).
I’m not trying to excuse 02’s complacency in some areas with capacity issues but they do use a lot of low-band spectrum and limited frequency capacity compared to EE
02 will have it’s strengths indoors
AD, if you’re getting poor data speeds outside, then it’s not going to improve indoors.
Using low band is fine… if done correctly. Unfortunately, O2 sometimes is so obsessed by signal that they forget to make sure it actually works.
The point has gone over your head, the point regarding indoor coverage was in reference to 02’s low band spectrum being reliable indoors compared to EE’s
It’s a bit obvious it will be slower