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5G rollout for three

Gazumbo

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Is there a list of places where three have plans to rollout 5G in the near future. Just wanting to see if they'll be coming to where I live any time soon.
 
Is there a list of places where three have plans to rollout 5G in the near future. Just wanting to see if they'll be coming to where I live any time soon.
It’s unlikely any MNO would publish this.

Commercially it wouldn’t make sense but also if dates slip and/or planning gets turned down customers would complain.
 
It’s unlikely any MNO would publish this.

Commercially it wouldn’t make sense but also if dates slip and/or planning gets turned down customers would complain.
I wondered if this would be the case. Googling hadn't turned up anything. Frustrating not knowing but what can you do. Thanks.
 
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If you search the towns planning applications for “telecoms” or similar you’ll usually find if they have approved or declined an application from a network.
That and the fact that it can be a postcode lottery where they have been successful and can provide 5G depends a lot on the views of the local council's (some are anti 5G) as well the locals who will put in objections (due to their anti 5G hysteria).

The only MNO which gives some indication of future 5G coverage is Vodafone as their coverage map shows both existing coverage and future coverage in 3 months time.

I hope that is of some help?
 
That and the fact that it can be a postcode lottery where they have been successful and can provide 5G depends a lot on the views of the local council's (some are anti 5G) as well the locals who will put in objections (due to their anti 5G hysteria).

The only MNO which gives some indication of future 5G coverage is Vodafone as their coverage map shows both existing coverage and future coverage in 3 months time.

I hope that is of some help?
My local mast approval had designs of all the 5G tech, how it works, approval letters from all types of local MP and communities all for it.

What I couldn’t see in any of the documents, was any of the bands available, just referring to 4G/5G. Usually see some technical detail but I couldn’t find it 😅

Either way, a great addition to the city when it’s live.
 
My local mast approval had designs of all the 5G tech, how it works, approval letters from all types of local MP and communities all for it.

What I couldn’t see in any of the documents, was any of the bands available, just referring to 4G/5G. Usually see some technical detail but I couldn’t find it 😅

Either way, a great addition to the city when it’s live.
Exactly; every area is different whereas your area is fully supportive of 5G, there are areas across the UK where locals are up in arms at the very thought of 5G being brought to their area, the same locals who believe in conspiracy theories and wear tin foil hats...

The amount of clickbait articles by local newspapers showing the locals campaigning against those 5G masts causing ill health to locals with said locals looking happy to have prevented such upgrades are plenty, indeed it's been discussed many times here etc...

It really does depend on where you live as to coverage and what the locals are like.
 
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Exactly; every area is different whereas your area is fully supportive of 5G, there are areas across the UK where locals are up in arms at the very thought of 5G being brought to their area, the same locals who believe in conspiracy theories and wear tin foil hats...

The amount of clickbait articles by local newspapers showing the locals campaigning against those 5G masts causing ill health to locals with said locals looking happy to have prevented such upgrades are plenty, indeed it's been discussed many times here etc...

It really does depend on where you live as to coverage and what the locals are like.

That's a good point. In addition to the 5G hysteria, there's also the fact that everyone's objecting to 5G masts popping up behind their back garden or at the end of their street because it looks unsightly. I can't blame them for that. I can't say I'd want one either, they do look unsightly.

There was another telecoms initiative in my town which got a huge backlash in the last year or two (for the same unsightly reasons) but I can't remember what it was called.

That and the fact that it can be a postcode lottery where they have been successful and can provide 5G depends a lot on the views of the local council's (some are anti 5G) as well the locals who will put in objections (due to their anti 5G hysteria).

The only MNO which gives some indication of future 5G coverage is Vodafone as their coverage map shows both existing coverage and future coverage in 3 months time.

I hope that is of some help?

Thanks for the tip about Vodafone. I checked and there's nothing in the next 3 months here. Vodafone really need to up their game around here, it's a signal black hole once you get into the village. O2 is the same, really limits choices.

If you search the towns planning applications for “telecoms” or similar you’ll usually find if they have approved or declined an application from a network.

Had a google, but only found a rejected planning permission for a 5G mast the other side of town.
 
Ah, I found the one I was thinking of. It's IX Wireless. There's been a lot of backlash in the Greater Manchester about their masts being installed in streets. It's basically to enable wireless fibre-broadband. But really, it's just a cost saving exercise as far as I can see. Instead of the cost of digging up, laying and resurfacing to install FTTP, this is a shortcut.
 
Ah, I found the one I was thinking of. It's IX Wireless. There's been a lot of backlash in the Greater Manchester about their masts being installed in streets. It's basically to enable wireless fibre-broadband. But really, it's just a cost saving exercise as far as I can see. Instead of the cost of digging up, laying and resurfacing to install FTTP, this is a shortcut.
It seems odd when you can just run wires off of poles. That what the first Altnet in our area did, though now we have nexfibre digging up everything 🙃
 
It seems odd when you can just run wires off of poles. That what the first Altnet in our area did, though now we have nexfibre digging up everything 🙃

From a money view point I'd imagine this must save telecoms installers quite a lot. Instead of installing Fibre to every house on a few streets, one mast would cover that area.
 
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Vodafone really need to up their game around here, it's a signal black hole once you get into the village. O2 is the same, really limits choices
Vodafone and O2 have a mast sharing agreement, that's probably why

Same with EE and Three although many Three masts aren't shared with EE and vice versa (Three's missing quite a few sites that EE is on here)
 
There have been several new 3/EE monopoles (with 5G) installed in the city of Lincoln over the last 6 Months or so with new antennae on some other masts. 3 is live on most of them but EE is not yet.

I live just outside the city and my 2 closest masts have not been upgraded but I can just get some 700Mhz 5G here.
 
There have been several new 3/EE monopoles (with 5G) installed in the city of Lincoln over the last 6 Months or so with new antennae on some other masts. 3 is live on most of them but EE is not yet.

I live just outside the city and my 2 closest masts have not been upgraded but I can just get some 700Mhz 5G here.
Three are finally getting around to my neighbourhood with 5G, I suppose sometime on the next two months they be putting in the mast and the bits that go with it including the telecom equipment boxes but for now they've just dug the trench and stuck piping in with a temporary cover and tarmacked all around it.

I be curious to see what speeds it will offer though, usually POWs I've connected to in the past were offering really good speeds almost FTTP like.

Good to see Lincoln getting more 5G, now if they move south to the next cathedral city of Peterborough, that be nice.
 
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