Seani
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They do now, as stated, o2 it’s base station site partner for most of the U.K. will have better reaching coverage on 700MHz 4/5G.200Mhz is unlikely to make much difference in coverage, Vodafone know what they are doing when deciding what spectrum to bid for and I highly doubt they will have any less coverage than the others.
You think o2 won’t use 700MHz 4G to trump Voda from the same Vodafone 800MHz 4/5G base station site, of course they will, coverage is king, data speeds come second fiddle to actually being able to use your mobile phone as a phone & text messaging.
The mobile internet’s great but if you have no signal indoors or in the wide open/landmass versus Three/EE/o2 then customer numbers will suffer in time as 700MHz is rolled out, & let’s face it the new high and load speed spectrums are being rolled out pronto, esp due to covid.
Voda Global has little interest in Voda U.K. or it would have invested in 4/5G landmass coverage, it’s nowt more than the original Vodafone Group founding company, a flag waver.
Never mind perhaps it’s BT Wholesale agreement will mean you can auto connect to a home broadbands customers Vodafone Wi-fi point where it has no 700MHz coverage so you can call & text via VoWiFi, VodaFON, lol.
Well the dismal 20 years of ‘customer care’ had to catch up with the Boardroom at some point, seems 2021 was that year.
Sad to see Vodafone UK demise.
Voda Global is on its ball though,
Vodafone Spain is also laying off 12% of its staff by Nov. It’s the forth lay off round in 8 years at Voda ES
There is hardly any differance in reach between the two bands as stated, i dont see what you have against Vodafone but they are certainly not at a disadvantage by not having a bit of 700Mhz spectrum lol.
Have you ever lived in the hills of Scotland or bush of Australia or the landmass likes of USA, India etc etc It makes a vast difference between service and no service.
T-Mobile USA spent $8 billion on B71 600MHz for 4/5G in 2017.
Alaska CGI signed up for a roaming agreement with T-Mob. https://blog.gci.com/gci-customers-...states-through-new-partnership-with-t-mobile/
There are plenty of large villages towns & areas in the U.K. that need 700MHz 5G, why bother with a BT Vodafone Broadband contract if you don’t have the coverage to match other networks or your own broadband footprint, that’s what o2 & Three are avoiding, BT Wholesale, and providing fibre/5G as delivery where as BT & EE are stuck in a slow copper wire land ongoing.
At least EE can bang base stations on any telephone exchange countrywide, Vodafone don’t have that option or 700MHz. Vodafone UK doesn’t even own one of its own base stations now, it’s owned by a Vodafone EU company which is strange when you aren’t a EU country.
You don’t need to be a intellect to know where Vodafone U.K. is going, nowhere... for sale. Offhive to D Telekom, Orange France... Verizon or AT&T would well want a U.K. subsidiary. Vodafone Global is losing money just being based in the U.K. now, it’s called tax across borders.
Voda U.K. is being stripped down like a Capitalist Venture firm does, it’s also not investing in coverage, owns zero base stations, it’s biggest assets have been moved out of Voda U.K. to EU company.
Whoever ends up buying Voda U.K. will have to pay Vodafone Vantage rental until they can build outside Cornerstone, esp them 700MHz black holes no other U.K. network has.
One word, Brexit.
Vodafone is a EU & Global company not a U.K. one.