{"id":9797,"date":"2015-07-29T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=9797"},"modified":"2015-07-29T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T12:41:21","slug":"vodafone-finds-altnet-fix-for-rural-3g-mobile-open-sure-signal-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/07\/vodafone-finds-altnet-fix-for-rural-3g-mobile-open-sure-signal-rollout.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Find Altnet Fix for Rural 3G Mobile Open Sure Signal Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"shortlink shortlink-90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a> has found a\u00a0fix for some\u00a0of the\u00a0communities in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodafone.co.uk\/our-network-and-coverage\/what-affects-your-coverage\/rural-open-sure-signal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rural Open Sure Signal<\/a> (ROSS100) project, which until recently had been unable to benefit from the Femtocell tech (i.e. uses fixed line services to boost local mobile signals) because the related areas suffered from a lack of good fixed line broadband.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>ROSS100<\/strong> project has identified <strong>100 rural communities<\/strong> across the United Kingdom (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/07\/vodafone-uk-brings-mobile-100-rural-communities-via-fixed-lines.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/01\/vodafone-unveil-last-40-uk-rural-communities-3g-mobile-broadband.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) that could receive improved mobile reception by harnessing existing fixed line infrastructure, but in being rural it&#8217;s also true that a good number of those will suffer from slow fixed broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed only last month <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a> warned that a number of their targeted communities, which weren&#8217;t named, have had their ROSS100 upgrades &#8220;<em>postponed until their community broadband speeds and availability have improved<\/em>&#8220;. But thankfully the operator has now found a solution for some of those areas by working with alternative network (altnet) ISPs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Dr Rob Matthews, Vodafone&#8217;s Network Wizard, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>About 30% of villages in our list of 100 didn\u2019t have quick enough <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a> broadband to be able to reliably power our ROSS units. We normally work with <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a> solely on providing broadband, but we also found out that there are third party providers coming forward and filling that gap, so we\u2019ve had to figure out how do we get our kit to communicate with these niche providers technology, and we\u2019re starting to roll that out now<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The altnets aren&#8217;t named, although\u00a0ISPs like <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"gigaclear\">Gigaclear<\/a>, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-49 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/b4rn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"Broadband 4 the Rural North\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/b4rn.org.uk\">B4RN<\/a> and many others are working to cater for various rural locations across the United Kingdom. In any case the news means that Vodafone are now able to &#8220;<em>step up a gear<\/em>&#8221; and push the roll-out forwards.<\/p>\n<p>So far five communities are live (Minchinhampton, Broad Chalke, Chillaton, Lifton and Loggerheads [North Wales]) and Vodafone is now aiming to deploy to new sites at a rate of one or two a week until <strong>March 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Dr Rob Matthews added:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We\u2019re going to have to ramp things up a bit from here, but we\u2019ve already done a lot of the ground work of surveying villages, finding out where the best locations are, making sure the speeds are quick enough and undertaking designs. We\u2019ve also done some testing with fibre to make sure the superfast speeds work with the ROSS units, and now we\u2019re moving into the implementation phase<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mind you we can&#8217;t help but wonder, given the advent of <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-124 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"wifi\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_wireless.php\">WiFi<\/a> Calling for mobile devices, whether it wouldn&#8217;t simply be easier to use local <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-124 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"wifi\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_wireless.php\">WiFi<\/a> for mobile calls instead of boosting the mobile signal via fixed line connections. Admittedly we\u2019d suppose that approach is not a true mobile network and of course not everybody wants home broadband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone has found a\u00a0fix for some\u00a0of the\u00a0communities in their Rural Open Sure Signal (ROSS100) project, which until recently had been unable to benefit from the Femtocell tech (i.e. uses fixed line services to boost local mobile signals) because the related areas suffered from a lack of good fixed line broadband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,474,60,96,476],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-3g","tag-bt","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-vodafone","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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