Bubblesthefish6
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Plus all I was talking about before was mast side of things
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I read they're not updating their maps. They showed 5G coverage around here once but it was gone three weeks later, sigh. CS says soon...Dudley was promised 5G from Three in 2019, since then, nothing. Although their coverage checker has all the streets around me as live( nothing officially announced tho. Do they have to have a minimum coverage of area before they can announce?
Doesn’t look to have MaMIMO on it, not really like three that. Maybe they will install it at a later date or just use 8T8R 5G instead.Must admit was rather shocked to be woken up by a crane and building works last night to look out in the garden and find a Three 5G mast going in just down the road.
Rather a nice surprise. Just need to wait a week or so for it to go into service now
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hopefully that within a couple of hundred meters will increase our current 60mbps from a 4G tower 2km away
You might want to temper your hopes a little - @Gandi69 had a similar mast go up late 2020 (also without the 5G antennas) and it's still not live yet - that one seemingly to not yet have got its backhaul with one.network appearing to show that might be planned for July. I'm not saying yours will be the same, but it might be longer than a week!Just need to wait a week or so for it to go into service now
You might want to temper your hopes a little - @Gandi69 had a similar mast go up late 2020 (also without the 5G antennas) and it's still not live yet - that one seemingly to not yet have got its backhaul with one.network appearing to show that might be planned for July. I'm not saying yours will be the same, but it might be longer than a week!
JP, what is the pitfalls of capacity when it comes to MBNL? Are they sharing microwave antenna to hub sites etc, or some part of back haul, which complicates matters further?Could depend on capacity issues through MBNL masts.
Must admit was rather shocked to be woken up by a crane and building works last night to look out in the garden and find a Three 5G mast going in just down the road.
Rather a nice surprise. Just need to wait a week or so for it to go into service now
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hopefully that within a couple of hundred meters will increase our current 60mbps from a 4G tower 2km away
Not entirely sure that's a 5G antenna to be honest. There should be smaller square antennas at the top ? Like this
Then again, maybe it is ? But the ones they're installing around my area all look like this second image, with two different sets of antenna on the top.
Its odd it does look like its missing a section from the top compared to another 5G site a couple of miles away, location where it is insist that its 5G. Also a lot more boxes than the other 4G sites around here..
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Yeah it does kinda look like it's missing some antenna at the top. If you can find the planning permission on the local authority website that should answer if it is or isn't but yeah that cabinet setup looks like it should be 5G.
On our local council website you can do a "simple" search and put "5G" in the box and it usually pops up with all the (mostly denied) applications.
@dabigm yours in an MBNL (EE/Three) shared 3/4/5G site, whereas @Stageshoot is a Three only (unilateral) site, hence half the number of antennas (and might be 4G and 5G only)
Edit: I'm assuming they will eventually put 5G antennas on the top.
Looks like they're putting it in exactly the right place thenThat would explain a lot, There is already a huge multi network tower just across the road from this one O2, EE, Voda all on it but not 3, so this is probably why 3 went stand alone there, they have gastly coverage here
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And the insult is the current local 5G mast drops out at the end of our road!
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