Rasmie Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 Good evening.Does anyone have any experience of using EE in their mobile phones . seems to be good deals with BT and Plusnet, but what is the cover like up here? cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 for Mainland, it's the best there is imo but you will, like others, get drop out's for cell signal, and 4G will/should cover all the Islands at some point. Rasmie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 (edited) I get a reasonable signal from Vodafone, which is carried by EE at present and I catch most of it from Collafirth, but it's only 3g. The way things are going, I'll be getting the last of my pension when 4g becomes available around here. As for 5g, we'll be dead and buried before it even gets talked about. Edited April 16, 2018 by George. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted April 16, 2018 Report Share Posted April 16, 2018 Well I am in middle England and I only get 3G indoors. Limited signal at that yet I get 4G at maximum strength at the bus stop. That said I can still make phone calls at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) If you check Mobile Coverage Map it shows you what the signal is like for each of the four mobile phone companies across the whole of Shetland. Can't say that I'm surprised how bad it is. In fact, it's probably a lot worse than expected, unless you live between Lerwick and Sumburgh. Edited April 17, 2018 by George. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashBox Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 I'm with EE, and living in the North Isles I get very patchy coverage. There's no 3G, just 2G, which is basically the same as dial-up internet. Remember that!?! Very poor. Last summer there were a few engineers up at the mast on the hill and they were apparently installing 4G enabled equipment. Sadly, they've been unable to get it working so we're still on 2G. Things came to a head early last year when I was expecting an important phone call and the mast lost signal (a very common occurrence here, annoyingly) for the best part of a week. I do have a BT landline but I'm ex-directory and don't give out my home number. I was on the phone to EE and got them to agree to send me a signal box for free as I'm on a contract and the many times the local network has gone down is frankly bordering on the ridiculous. Most of the isles have no coverage from my experience, but EE does seem to be the best overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cutty Sark Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) Vodaphone and O2 are always your best bet, I think EE use their own network and not an MVNO (piggy backing on another service, Tesco use O2 for example), so there will be less coverage than the former two. It also depends where you are, some places will only offer 2g. Be aware, that coverage maps tend to only show where a signal was used, not that it was a great signal. If I'm on Whalsay for example, and use my phone in some weird position, on top of a building and wearing a tin hat on my head which allows me enough signal to shout, "the ferry is late", then that will be registered in the coverage records. Edited April 17, 2018 by The Cutty Sark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted April 17, 2018 Report Share Posted April 17, 2018 At one of the North Isles Digital Forums we were told the various mobile operators will be sharing masts in Shetland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cutty Sark Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 They normally share masts in remote places. But this will not change what a provider will offer in frequency ranges, and its the frequency that matters. I guess Vodaphone has the best coverage purely because of the frequency ranges it provides. Of course, if the powers that be shift themselves and make 4G available everywhere, then it won't matter because this runs at 800MHz on all provider networks. Though with 5G around the corner, maybe they will skip this and just wait for 5G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 Though with 5G around the corner, maybe they will skip this and just wait for 5G. In Shetland? It'll be a big and long corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted May 12, 2018 Report Share Posted May 12, 2018 (edited) If you decide on EE, then you might as well go to Virgin, who use EE infrastructure, as it will be cheaper. There were some good deals to be had, such as a contract for a fiver with 500 minutes and texts I believe, but if you are already a Virgin customer you won't get the deal. EE didn't like me doing 8GB a month of the 10GB of data that I had paid for. It is a fairly common occurence for their to be no capacity left on the cell to be able to make a call where I am in the north mainland. It's probably those gits with the data packages slurping the bandwidth. I work in town and there is no EE signal in the office except if I go to a window from where I can see the Bressay tower. All the mobile providers are crap. It's just a case of finding the least crap, but they do take it in turns to be the most crap, in a random order and at random times. Edited May 12, 2018 by BigMouth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashBox Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 I've noticed a brand new mobile phone mast is currently under construction above Gutcher on Yell. That might help improve the patchy coverage in the North Isles. We'll have to wait and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 There was an EE "showroom" van parrked outside the RBS today. I am not sure what it was doing there. Couldn't see inside it as someone drove past me at the time blocking my view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Been there all week.. Not seen anyone in there though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhes2013 Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 It was a mobile ee shop. But they have left again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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