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Does Three OWN Any Masts Rather Than Just Sharing MBNL Ones?

jmngonline

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I noticed that in most places I receive signal on Three from masts where EE also gets their signals from. In urban areas they both usually have 5G on them poles with exposed antennas but only 4G on both with those older poles that covered the antennas. Others like building rooftops and pylon style masts usually share one or the other especially in rural areas where in Padstow EE has 5G and Three has 3G from the same mast or sometimes basic 4g in other areas.

That left me thinking does Three even own masts that they use without other networks using them?.
 
I noticed that in most places I receive signal on Three from masts where EE also gets their signals from. In urban areas they both usually have 5G on them poles with exposed antennas but only 4G on both with those older poles that covered the antennas. Others like building rooftops and pylon style masts usually share one or the other especially in rural areas where in Padstow EE has 5G and Three has 3G from the same mast or sometimes basic 4g in other areas.

That left me thinking does Three even own masts that they use without other networks using them?.
Is this a genuine question? Of course they do!!!

My local mast is completely Three only and it has full capacity ready (B1+3+20+28+32+n78) and Three utilize more of their own equipment now than ever.

In fact, I could be wrong but Three is slowly moving away from MBNL anyways? They're not joining new sites afaik.
 
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Actually it seems like all of the Three only sites are either 3G only or maxed out POWs. They relied heavily on MBNL for LTE

I don’t know any three site within 10 miles that isn’t a POW, MBNL or 3G only
I straight up do not know of any Three site that's not a PoW here, I'm not actually aware of any 3G only sites
 
I straight up do not know of any Three site that's not a PoW here, I'm not actually aware of any 3G only sites
I know what MBNL means but what is POW?
is that another mast conpany?

Three has 4000 3G only sites around. 17000 sites in total either shared or privately owned
 
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It's a Three 'Pole of Wonder' jmngonline. 😊
Ok, think I spotted one at kendal road southampton earlier done a speed test whilst connected shows 600mb down 60 up. There is one apprroved for planning for salisbury westwood road in 2023/2 but still not erected yet, I can tell its a POW because the applications client is only h3g with no mention of EE or MBNL radio equipment or cell id.
 
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