Any one else got poor service/signal since 3g switch off? Think vodafone 3g switch off is a step backwards. My s22 ultra is always warm from always searching for signal since 3g switch off! Before I could get a steady 8mbps now I'm either getting nothing or rarely 150mbps when 5g appears I've got to put my phone on silent at night to stop all the no service notifications 😑 poor show vodafone I'd rather have a reliable signal than this occasionally 1bar 4g or 1bar 5g
@Racal-Yodafone You make a good point. Even just less than a mile from home I pass through a DAB radio dead zone, but yet the listener is bombarded with encouragements to move over to DAB.
Thanks, @Cynric🙂 I guess it's about finding a balance.
Mobile network design is absolutely about balancing wide-area coverage with deep-capacity where needed.
The success does vary substantially between the big-4. I'm not even sure that 5G-SA is the panacea that marketers would claim - it's a technology leap for sure, but it doesn't do anything for coverage that's not already possible with 4G.
Lower frequencies can travel farther and penetrate through obstacles but offer relatively low speeds, while higher frequencies are much faster but have a limited range and struggle to pass through objects.
It's radio frequency basics. And if we're being pedantic, the frequency itself doesn't offer "fast" or "slow" speeds - it's just that there's far more bandwidth allocation on the high-bands.
But that does need MNO's to deploy that bandwidth.
@japitts I was not commenting on capacity but range.
Higher frequencies have increasing propagation issues travelling through a medium, which is why, for example, underwater communication is over very low frequencies. Only in a vacuum will the range of the different frequencies be the same and even then dispersion (inverse square rule) will be an impact, which is why the baud rate to the Voyager probes is about 75bps now.
Has anyone tried or managed to end their contract early because of this? I have another 11 months left and I’m tired of it now. I switched my wife to EE about 6 months back and she is having to hotspot for me on occasions.
I either have no signal in areas I used to, or I have 1 or 2 bars of 4g but can’t do anything with it. Supposed to get 5g in the house but never seen it in my area anywhere.
Hi @Tom5865 , I believe, from memory, that further back up this thread, someone stated that they'd got an uncontested termination of their contract due to loss of signal since the 3G turn off. Apologies in advance if I'm remembering something that was posted in a different thread.
Hi @Tom5865 , I've trawled through the entire thread and found the post I was referring to. I have no idea how to link to another post, or if that's even possible. It was posted by @LadyKathryn on 09-05-2024 at 10:52 AM, on this thread. Successful termination of contract. Worth reading the post for a chronological description of how the termination was achieved.
