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Connecting to EE 5G SA Mast

ProSlapShot

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Hi,

First time posting here, found some good info on the site and seems like there is lots of knowledgable people here.

In the past year I've moved into a rural village, of which the house I'm in was build on the outskirts in the 1800s meaning phone lines are non-existent. I started out with a 4G router on vodafone but found 5G intermittently popping up via a EE sim card in my phone. I've since moved to the Gl iNet X3000 router and an EE mobile broadband sim which has picked up on the 5G NSA mast which is working great.

However, the router allows me to search for and lock onto masts. One of these offers 5G SA but I'm not getting any success in the sim service activating. From what I can see the PLMN code is 234-30 which I believe indicates it is an EE mast. The cell ID is showing as 244e18008. I find the router provides the cell ID in HEX so converting this to decimal gives a cell ID of 9745563656.

Has anyone come across this before? I haven't managed to trace down the cell ID origin on cellmapper, could it be this is a relatively new mast which isn't fully operational yet?

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Hi,

First time posting here, found some good info on the site and seems like there is lots of knowledgable people here.

In the past year I've moved into a rural village, of which the house I'm in was build on the outskirts in the 1800s meaning phone lines are non-existent. I started out with a 4G router on vodafone but found 5G intermittently popping up via a EE sim card in my phone. I've since moved to the Gl iNet X3000 router and an EE mobile broadband sim which has picked up on the 5G NSA mast which is working great.

However, the router allows me to search for and lock onto masts. One of these offers 5G SA but I'm not getting any success in the sim service activating. From what I can see the PLMN code is 234-30 which I believe indicates it is an EE mast. The cell ID is showing as 244e18008. I find the router provides the cell ID in HEX so converting this to decimal gives a cell ID of 9745563656.

Has anyone come across this before? I haven't managed to trace down the cell ID origin on cellmapper, could it be this is a relatively new mast which isn't fully operational yet?

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EE SA is not available to consumers at the moment. There is a trial either started or due to start soon which customers and staff had to sign up for but it's limited. Until the trial is complete and customers lines enabled you are not going to be able to use the SA network.

Only O2 and Vodafone have SA enabled to customers with certain price plans and handsets.
 
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That would make a lot of sense. I'm in the Bath area which has been opposed to 5G for some time. Hopefully the trial is sucessful and I can start to get the benefits from the SA connection!

Thanks for the info.
We're all wondering if EE's SA will be any better than O2 and Vodafone's SA, which are both a bit 'meh'. 😊

Oh, and welcome along to the forums ProSlapShot.(y)
 
244e18008
Interesting that it's showing up as n71, there's no n71 in the UK currently and it wouldn't overlap with any operators n28 spectrum (sector ID shows up as 8 which would correspond with EE n28 on sector 3)

Bath is generally stronger for signal on EE/3 compared to O2/VF btw
 
Appreciate the welcome.

I did notice the band was constantly changing... I could only presume this was frequency hopping between bands when trying to connect. It does identify at N28 on the mast search.

Other info from mast searching if interested:

Band: N28
Bandwidth: 52 (this was also changing)
SCS: 15
PLMN: 234-30
Cell ID: 244E18008
TAC: 1A9D3
PCI: 993
Frequency: 156510

Haven't quite read into the SCS/TAC/PCI to understand what they are yet.

There appears to be two masts assocated with the 3 network on NR5G too, but I've got a 3 Sim and they're simply refusing to connect or give any info other than the PLMN being 234-20. Not even a cell ID. I'm aware there was planning permission for a new 3 5G mast in Peasedown St John (closest town), so it's possible it's seeing that.
 
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No, just upgraded my plan.
I cannot upgrade my plan, forgot to switch back to direct debit, bill was 12 days overdue when I went online to try and upgrade just now, customer of 4 years plus and never missed a single bill. Same story when calling 150

No warning text, email or call
 
I cannot upgrade my plan, forgot to switch back to direct debit, bill was 12 days overdue when I went online to try and upgrade just now, customer of 4 years plus and never missed a single bill
Might be worth a call to CS and see if they can help?
 
Edited* called and they said they can’t help, computer says no pretty much… hinted to try again after direct debit payment taken next month
That’s really harsh - genuinely wouldn’t notice if my DD was missed!
 
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That’s really harsh - genuinely wouldn’t notice if my DD was missed!
Neither, had a super busy month. Surely you’d expect a text the day after your bill was due…

Hopefully it’s just that my account still isn’t marked settled in different parts of their system, eg the first page of the website says I’m still overdue, clicking the bill shows it’s paid

What’s the minimum plan currently to get access to SA? And can you buy it from the EE website at the moment? My SO is in progress of leaving Vodafone for EE because they don’t cover their new job site
 
What plan are you on?

Btw lol at SA, it's not a bad ping but hardly great either, originally 5G (nsa) was touted as having sub 10ms pings, then they mugged that off and said SA would be the saviour. Well it turns out it's all bollocks I guess
 
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