Sponsored Links

Three Oversubscribed Areas Alert! (And What Action Has Three Taken)

Stamford Lincolnshire seems to be very oversubscribed on Three. When schools start getting out and people finish work the speeds drop down to about 5mbps over where as I can pick up about 50mbps in the day. I believe (and am hoping) Three may be in the process of rolling out 5G here as I have picked it up a couple of times around my house/street as of recent. Vodafone have also recently started rolling out 5G here which leaves Three the only one to have not officially started yet, internet was very slow in this town until around 2021 I would say so I'm happy to see improvements.
 
Can people please provide Cellmapper areas with these posts, as

St Cross Road Winchester

Newquay

Swanage (during summer when town crowded)

Ocean Village area Southampton

@jmngonline everywhere you have listed is a known council rejecting masts against taxpayers wishes for service.
 
All of the ST7 area is heavily congested around the areas of Alsager, Church Lawton and Kidsgrove. Even with a full 4G signal no data flows or speeds never get over 0.50mbps

Its shockingly bad, which is annoying as I am about to move to this area and I am currently in a 24 month contract for Three 5G Broadband.

Hoping they let me out the contract considering the hub is loaned not owned.
I'm in that area every week and notice how bad it is, has been that way for a few years.
 
Alert!

Swanage Is now oversubscribed as the town is now crowded at this peak time of the year.

The one only MBNL mast that covers swanage is only equipped with basic B3 and B20 LTE



1000006614.webp
 
I'm in that area every week and notice how bad it is, has been that way for a few years.
Walked from Church Lawton to Kidsgrove and my phone would barely work.

Over in kidsgrove seems a little better. Walking down the canal with full signal but wasn’t able complete a basic task buying a train ticket.

I wouldn’t mind 1-2mbps but literally nothing flowing is incredibly frustrating. I thought 3 used traffic management to stop this but clearly not.

Would prefer them restrict speeds than have situations like this.
 
Walked from Church Lawton to Kidsgrove and my phone would barely work.

Over in kidsgrove seems a little better. Walking down the canal with full signal but wasn’t able complete a basic task buying a train ticket.

I wouldn’t mind 1-2mbps but literally nothing flowing is incredibly frustrating. I thought 3 used traffic management to stop this but clearly not.

Would prefer them restrict speeds than have situations like this.
I don't see much 3 investment in the area vs others, no B28 site additions still
 
Sponsored Links
Is that a valid combo for your device, or any device?
I would assume it is valid, I think I looked up my Pixel 6 Pro a while ago on Cacombos and I believe B1+3+32+n78+n78 is a combo (although I've never seen it). Possible that newer devices can have B28 aggregated with those 5 bands too.
 
I would assume it is valid, I think I looked up my Pixel 6 Pro a while ago on Cacombos and I believe B1+3+32+n78+n78 is a combo (although I've never seen it). Possible that newer devices can have B28 aggregated with those 5 bands too.
In my location, if I allow either of B1 or B3, the TRB500 eventually drops to 4G LTE so I need to exclude both of these to get B20+n78.

The measured throughput points heavily away from the claimed combo actually being in effect so I would have preferred to see the connected bands shown and the measured throughput simply stated.

Does any UK carrier offer B28?

 
Last edited:
Sponsored Links
Does any UK carrier offer B28?
That site is inaccurate, usually a decent resource which sucks.

O2, Three and EE offer band 28. My local 3 site actually often connects to B28. EE's deployments are mostly limited to 5G and O2 does 5G/5G DSS usually.
 
That site is inaccurate, usually a decent resource which sucks.

O2, Three and EE offer band 28. My local 3 site actually often connects to B28. EE's deployments are mostly limited to 5G and O2 does 5G/5G DSS usually.
That's missing some bands too.

O2: B1 3G/4G, B3 4G, B8 2G/3G/4G/5G, B20 4G, B28 4G/5G, B38 4G, B40 4G (I recently learnt that B38 and B40 are 3G TDD bands which is cool), N78 5G.
Vodafone: B1 3G/4G, B3 2G/4G, B7 4G/5G (I think), B8 2G/4G/5G, B20 4G, B32 4G, B38 4G, N78 5G.
EE: B1 4G/5G, B3 2G/4G/5G, B7 4G/5G, B20 4G, B28 4G/5G, N78 5G.
Three: B1 3G/4G/5G, B3 4G, B20 4G, B28 4G/5G, B32 4G, B42/43/N78 4G/5G.

I'd use the mastdatabase website for bands deployed honestly.
 
Feels like Wikipedia is also out of date if B28/APT is in use in the UK, or I can't read or am otherwise being an idiot.

It shows B28 being deployed widely in Europe on the LTE frequency bands page

I haven't done a ton of research but quite a few European countries have B28, including (but not limited to) Ireland and Finland. I think the oddest band we have here is B40 tbh with you.

I think n105 is eventually coming over here as they free up more spectrum from TV usage (given that B20 and B28 were both from freeing up TV spectrum) but god knows when
 
Sponsored Links
The Polygon, Southampton

View attachment 16092

Reason For Overcapacity

● Band 1,3 only
● Possibly microwave link
● General busy usage
● Network issue in area according to status checker
I've found Three awful in that part of the world. Similar (or worse) results are common in Portsmouth, too many sites with just B1+B3.

VF are by far the best on the south coast in my experience. O2? Forget about it. EE are hit or miss.
 
Top
Cheap BIG ISPs for 100Mbps+
Community Fibre UK ISP Logo
150Mbps
Gift: None
Virgin Media UK ISP Logo
Virgin Media £22.99
132Mbps
Gift: None
Vodafone UK ISP Logo
Vodafone £24.00 - 26.00
150Mbps
Gift: None
NOW UK ISP Logo
NOW £24.00
100Mbps
Gift: None
Plusnet UK ISP Logo
Plusnet £25.99
145Mbps
Gift: £50 Reward Card
Large Availability | View All
Cheapest ISPs for 100Mbps+
Gigaclear UK ISP Logo
Gigaclear £17.00
200Mbps
Gift: None
Community Fibre UK ISP Logo
150Mbps
Gift: None
Virgin Media UK ISP Logo
Virgin Media £22.99
132Mbps
Gift: None
Hey! Broadband UK ISP Logo
150Mbps
Gift: None
Youfibre UK ISP Logo
Youfibre £23.99
150Mbps
Gift: None
Large Availability | View All
Sponsored Links
The Top 15 Category Tags
  1. FTTP (6024)
  2. BT (3638)
  3. Politics (2720)
  4. Business (2439)
  5. Openreach (2405)
  6. Building Digital UK (2330)
  7. Mobile Broadband (2143)
  8. FTTC (2083)
  9. Statistics (1899)
  10. 4G (1813)
  11. Virgin Media (1762)
  12. Ofcom Regulation (1582)
  13. Fibre Optic (1467)
  14. Wireless Internet (1462)
  15. 5G (1404)
Sponsored

Copyright © 1999 to Present - ISPreview.co.uk - All Rights Reserved - Terms  ,  Privacy and Cookie Policy  ,  Links  ,  Website Rules