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BT Street Hubs - discussion

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This thread is for users to discuss BT Street Hubs, which includes public WiFi speeds, any updates to them, new Street Hubs in your areas, EE 4G mappings from Street Hubs and speeds from 4G on Street Hubs.



I've found 2 in my local area that broadcasts 4G so far, unfortunately haven't tried the WiFi yet.

These are:

* eNB [redacted]: [redacted] by Boots covering [redacted] featuring B3 and B7
* eNB [redacted]: [redacted] by McDonald's featuring B3 and B7

Here's me mapping the latter one below earlier:

[redacted, shows a 1791 EARFCN on Cell 24 of a mast]


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If you're new to Street Hubs, they are essentially advertisement boards for BT which they license out to Global to display advertisements on.

They often come with Gigabit-capable WiFi, EE 4G (and maybe 5G too), environment sensors and a payphone.

BT advertises these as the modern replacement to the telephone box.

 

Vast majority of them replace old BT phoneboxes.
 
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They seem to be a new battleground for planning permission with the NIMBYs out in force. Oxford City Council have rejected about a dozen applications and have consented to very few. :devilish:
To be fair, having more advertisement boards are annoying but I've found it to only advertise BT/EE stuff and LBC.
 
They seem to be a new battleground for planning permission with the NIMBYs out in force. Oxford City Council have rejected about a dozen applications and have consented to very few. :devilish:
They would've been useful with the ongoing EE outage in the city centre.
 
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I do wonder how effective those digital ad screens are, yes I see them, but I don't recall ever having stopped to read the content. They catch your eye when they are new but after that they blend into the background.
 
I do wonder how effective those digital ad screens are, yes I see them, but I don't recall ever having stopped to read the content. They catch your eye when they are new but after that they blend into the background.
Eh it's caught my eye once when someone wrote something very polite on it (not sure whether filters on the forum would pick it up) with an arrow pointing to what would probably be a face
 
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If you're new to Street Hubs, they are essentially advertisement boards for BT which they license out to Global to display advertisements on.

They often come with Gigabit-capable WiFi, EE 4G (and maybe 5G too), environment sensors and a payphone.

BT advertises these as the modern replacement to the telephone box.


Having read this thread last night, I paid a visit to my local Street Hub this morning. It transpired that it is not yet operational ; it had a big jacket thereon with a QR code, which passers-by are invited to scan to see what is coming !
 

BT and Global announce 10-year digital partnership to upgrade UK’s street furniture.

More hubs and updates on the way it seems folks. :)
 

BT and Global announce 10-year digital partnership to upgrade UK’s street furniture.

More hubs and updates on the way it seems folks. :)
They're horrible things. They're much taller than the old phone boxes, much more obtrusive as they contain a huge illuminated advertising board, but unlike normal billboards they are in the middle of the footpath and they are completely unnecessary as they "provide" wi-fi for a small area normally in a city centre with excellent mobile data coverage. I've never seen anyone actually interacting with one.

They only exist because BT has existing permission to put up phone boxes, so they provide some rudimentary "communication" service to tick that box but are primarily Global advertising sites. They should be taken out. The idea that they're somehow providing a benefit to "communities" because they flash up news headlines from poor quality LBC radio feels like someone taking the mickey.
 
They're horrible things. They're much taller than the old phone boxes, much more obtrusive as they contain a huge illuminated advertising board, but unlike normal billboards they are in the middle of the footpath and they are completely unnecessary as they "provide" wi-fi for a small area normally in a city centre with excellent mobile data coverage. I've never seen anyone actually interacting with one.

They only exist because BT has existing permission to put up phone boxes, so they provide some rudimentary "communication" service to tick that box but are primarily Global advertising sites. They should be taken out. The idea that they're somehow providing a benefit to "communities" because they flash up news headlines from poor quality LBC radio feels like someone taking the mickey.
Funnily enough, I've never came accross any so far, not even in Glasgow, unless I walked past it and never noticed, which is quite possible.
(In a rush to get to to a Greggs for a caramel 'n' custard doughnut) 😊
 
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Funnily enough, I've never came accross any so far, not even in Glasgow, unless I walked past it and never noticed, which is quite possible.
(In a rush to get to to a Greggs for a caramel 'n' custard doughnut) 😊
There are two near my work, both replaced phone boxes on the same sites (so presumably went up under Permitted Development). They don't seem to sell much advertising space, they tend to show mostly LBC news screens or ads for Global's other wonderful radio offerings such as Capital FM, or BT/EE.

They seem to have a place to plug in your own headset to make a phone call (in a busy, noisy street with no privacy?) which feels very much like a box-ticking exercise to get them put up to replace phone boxes, rather than a genuine attempt to provide a communication service.
 
There are two near my work, both replaced phone boxes on the same sites (so presumably went up under Permitted Development). They don't seem to sell much advertising space, they tend to show mostly LBC news screens or ads for Global's other wonderful radio offerings such as Capital FM, or BT/EE.

They seem to have a place to plug in your own headset to make a phone call (in a busy, noisy street with no privacy?) which feels very much like a box-ticking exercise to get them put up to replace phone boxes, rather than a genuine attempt to provide a communication service.
I'll have to pay extra attention next Glasgow visit, to see if I can spot one MissTuned.
 
They're horrible things. They're much taller than the old phone boxes, much more obtrusive as they contain a huge illuminated advertising board, but unlike normal billboards they are in the middle of the footpath and they are completely unnecessary as they "provide" wi-fi for a small area normally in a city centre with excellent mobile data coverage. I've never seen anyone actually interacting with one.

They only exist because BT has existing permission to put up phone boxes, so they provide some rudimentary "communication" service to tick that box but are primarily Global advertising sites. They should be taken out. The idea that they're somehow providing a benefit to "communities" because they flash up news headlines from poor quality LBC radio feels like someone taking the mickey.
Haven't been on the forum for a few days, fully agree. I saw someone using the phone on it a few weeks ago and literally everyone in the street can hear the phone call.

The billboards are also useless imo and tbh some of the stuff some people would rather not see (like the news, I don't care whether Rishi has done this or that).

The micro cells don't seem that useful when EE already has the highest 4G capacity of any network here locally (and I imagine in a lot of other places too since Three is limited to 1+3+20+28+32 and don't expect O2 or Vodafone to have more than 50-70MHz). Not sure how it would be in other places though. (although then again one of our Street Hubs are brilliant for coverage in a shopping centre)
 
Good evening long time lurker here my name Declan and I've been very interested in the street hub roll out for a long time and the area where I live in North Wales is also getting 6 BT Street hubs with the announcement 2 weeks ago with more being launched within the next decade it will be interesting to see if more come to Wales.

I'm a frequent visitor to Liverpool where they got quite a lot I use the Wi-Fi on them and the speed is quite good.
 
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