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Can someone check Cleethorpes DN35 0PN area please. Weird coverage, absent under mast but OK 20 miles out to sea. Maybe includes new 5G bands? Comments please.
 
Yeah they have tweaked the coverage map here as well

last week 5g was

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Today it’s

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Without anything extra being turned on here yet
 
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Mines finally updated for Chester. I thought they’d activated a new mast but actually the only active mast covered the area I presumed was new.

Just goes to show there is some reach (about a mile and half) for the n78 frequency if located on a high rise block.

700mhz would be perfect if they replaced it or run it alongside the current.
 
I think the general consensus was while Three's 5G coverage was sparse overall, the 5G coverage map was seen to be a bit pessimistic on the coverage where it was available..

It feels like they might have relaxed their parameters that they use for estimating coverage a little, which might be a bit more in-line with what is actually in the real-world.
 
Just checked my area, they claim there's 5G now.
I ordered a sim and will test in the CPE Win tomorrow.
 
I have since been informed that previously intersite coverage wasn't being shown on the coverage map, even though it was active/deployed on the network itself and available to use.

Whereas now, intersite is being shown (opposed to it being a relaxing of the any prediction parameters that I mentioned earlier), but explains why it was considered that the coverage maps were pessimistic vs real-life.
 
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Well things are definitely getting more crowded on Three 5G, I'm lucky to see over 500 Mbps now during the day, I wonder if updating the coverage map internally to the sales teams happened a while back.
 
Well things are definitely getting more crowded on Three 5G, I'm lucky to see over 500 Mbps now during the day, I wonder if updating the coverage map internally to the sales teams happened a while back.
I mean. Does it really need to be any faster?
 
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Well I've just been and had a look at Three's update cxoverage checker and from what I'm seeing they are playing a very naughty sales tactic.

I can assure you all that no 5G signals are reaching most of the areas now showing outdoor coverage and the existing coverage areas haven't expanded at all.

I've been fairly fair with Three up to now but this move is a demerit in my books.

if you see the coverage maps I have linked to above. I am just outside on the original map. And in coverage on the new map

I can’t get anything on a phone handset. It just won’t get 5g at home but with a CPE Pro high up in a window balanced on a couple of boxes I can get a very very good 5g data rate. Move the unit a few cm’s either way and nothing.

so it really is a very touchy service in these borderline areas but can be done.
 
I understand this but understand that while your maps has added an extra tiny bit of coverage, Three are claiming to have added addition 2-4 miles of coverage to 5G masts here, and one area in particular doesn't even get 3G/4G indoors.

and they still haven't added additonal masts that are broadcasting 5G to the maps either, so I'm starting to think an error has occured.

yes that would be really odd. Only had a quick dig around the coverage map so had not seen anything that major.

Our main issue here is getting decent 4G for upload. Can easily get 300 to 600 down but struggling to get over 6mbps upload. Which is really an issue to us. just waiting on a mast a few hundred meters away to go live it’s been in the ground since April but still not online

agree with you tho that tweaks showing massive graphics increases on coverage are just not realistic. And even in our case where we are now Dailey well within coverage it’s a dance to get the exact location for service
 
I’ve just had a look on there and the coverage it’s showing is extremely unrealistic. The green dot is the mast in my village which is a max configuration site, the yellow dot is a monopole in the next village over which replaced a phase 5 microwaved onto the green dot mast. The Blue dot is on a hill in the middle of nowhere. There is no way in hell your getting 5G in wilsden as the mast it appears to be coming from barely serves wilsden for 4G.
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Well they have done something this morning,

about 10am this morning the 4g upload signal on my CPE PRO 372 went from 3 bars to 5 bars and upload speed increased from 3 to 4mbps to over 20mbps

Download 5g is stable around 300mbps at 4 bars.

Checked the new pole a few hundred meters away and its still off still no connection or improved service on a phone handset only on the CPE PRO

So not sure if they have linked in other 4g masts to help with upload or what but hoping it stays this way 20mbps up will help a lot

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Could just be you were on B20 for 4G before (+5G), and now it's connected to B3/B1 or even B28 if it's just been deployed somewhere nearby. Or, if 4G bands haven't changed it could just be they've altered the scheduling configuration and now more UL is now going over 5G than it was before.
 
Some people are suggesting the coverage changes are just changes to how the coverage area is determined. I don't believe this to be the case. The coverage map in my area has been significantly updated and large swathes of land are now covered by 5G which previously had no service above 4G, and now do.
 
The updates on my map area are true for the coverage, albeit weak and intermittent, which the coverage checker confirms in the lighter shaded red.

My guess is they’ve somehow used the connections location via your phone to map out where the 5G signal was picked up and extended the coverage that way.
 
The updates on my map area are true for the coverage, albeit weak and intermittent, which the coverage checker confirms in the lighter shaded red.

My guess is they’ve somehow used the connections location via your phone to map out where the 5G signal was picked up and extended the coverage that way.
The maps are a bit meh really anyway. You tend to find better coverage than the map shows.
 
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