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Coverage in Cities really difficult.
The 4 main mobile network operators in the UK use different parts of the radio spectrum allocated for mobile networks. Some frequencies penetrate buildings better than others, and the proximity of the signal source has a bearing on reception as well.
At any given location, there's no guarantee that each of mobile network operators will deliver the same signal strength, which maybe why your friends aren't affected to the same extent as you, Dominic_1770810.
Three UK (SMARTY Mobile's parent and owner) have an active bandwidth management policy. Three say it's designed to ensure whenever there's congestion or network issues, they'll manipulate their mobile data network in order keep things running as smoothly as possible. However, if bandwidth is limited and there are many, many concurrent users, things will slow down, despite active network management.
I'v posted similar experience. Not just in London.
I was recently at Westfield, stratford - two separate visits a week apart, at different times of the day - and the signal there was apalling. Either I got nothing at all, or when i did get a few bars, there was no data, just voice.
And recently in central london - again, signal was patchy but data would cut out entirely. I had to rely on customer wifi in nearly every situation.
Recently driving through Kent, despite having 2 or 3 bars on 4g, I got nothing data wise. It caused us no end of toruble - all 4 phones (3 iphones and 1 Android) could not get Google Maps or Waze and we were lost.
Weak signala nd no internet .
Now in our local town the signal is poor and again, no internet. THis was not the case a few months ago or last year when we switched.
I would conclude that THree network management is to blame, and if they re actively de-activating 3g matsts, then perhaps the remaining 4g and 5g infrastructure is seeing more gongestion as a result?
I am now actively looking at alternatives!
