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Three / Vodafone Merged Network Technical Discussion

There's a suprising amount of O2 only masts in rural areas. I'm a noob to the CTIL agreement. Could Vodafone install their antennas on these sites in the future or are they only for O2's enjoyment?

There's one village with-
O2 only Pole
EE/3 pole with 3g only on three
If vodathree were to turn off three's 3G pole they would have only have decent 2G in the village.

Very interesting to see what happens.
 
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Blimey, I've been calling it wrong all these years..
Glad I’m not the only one.

I looked them up and didn’t realise they were involved before Three in the early 90’s.
 
There's a suprising amount of O2 only masts in rural areas. I'm a noob to the CTIL agreement. Could Vodafone install their antennas on these sites in the future or are they only for O2's enjoyment?

There's one village with-
O2 only Pole
EE/3 pole with 3g only on three
If vodathree were to turn off three's 3G pole they would have only have decent 2G in the village.

Very interesting to see what happens.
Shocked VF aren’t on that site already then.

What’s Vodafone coverage like?
 
Very Poor on LTE
Strong on 2G, so maybe Vodafone have a 2G only site somewhere.
Maybe they are broadcasting 2G only on the O2 site? Ive seen that on some rural sites, quite rare though
 
A few years ago Telefonica (O2) got planning permission for a 4G mast near me, they've been paying rent to the land owner ever since but they never actually built anything. A new planning application has now been submitted which is basically identical except it's now Cornerstone and it has 5G. Given the upcoming merger, I'm surprised that what was going to be an O2 mast is now going to be shared with Vodafone (there is an EE/Three mast nearby, I would have thought the new merged company would just use that instead).
 
I still find 2G to be broadcasting at a higher power, signal strength always seems better on it vs 4G indoors.
It's not really comparing Apples with Apples. 2G isn't a SFN in the same way 4G is and more power doesn't maximise coverage on interference constrained networks.

VF had a good revision of standard cell powers / power distribution and mobility parameters when 3G got switched off, the issue for most people (on Ericsson eNBs at least) is the blind redirect to 2G in connected mode. Quite hard to argue to push the 4G coverage more in most cases on most masts. In O2 run areas (and some older VF 4G masts) there's more to come out of it.
 
Anyone know how Vodafone will deal with three unlimited plans? My assumption is that they would flood the network once merged but maybe that’s not a problem
Might be a none issue, many are on unlimited but use only a couple of gigs most months (that's me at the moment). I guess it depends on the ratio of normal mobile users to those using it as a replacement for home broadband.

Maybe they will have a speed limit, perhaps one that gets lower as usage goes up.
 
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