Mobile coverage?

greyteam1959

mobileron said:

For years i have suffered with a poor signal in my village and even worse in my stone house.
Lat year BT and others are now offering a service,where the calls will go via your wifi router in the house,check if your phone has wifi calling and switch it on.
Never lost a call since.

Yes I use this with BT. 
Brilliant for me as the 2 places that I use my mobile phone most have no signal with any carrier.

mgfvvc

knightstyle said:
Is there anywhere we can get a true picture?

The OpenSignal app claims to offer real world data, crowd sourced from users' mobiles. I can't vouch for it's accuracy, but you can download it and see if their maps match your experience.

glennevis

mobileron said:

For years i have suffered with a poor signal in my village and even worse in my stone house.
Lat year BT and others are now offering a service,where the calls will go via your wifi router in the house,check if your phone has wifi calling and switch it on.
Never lost a call since.

It's not as simple as 'check your phone'. You can only use WiFi calling if the network supports it.
Giffgaff don't support WiFi calling (yet).

glennevis

mgfvvc said:

knightstyle said:
Is there anywhere we can get a true picture?

The OpenSignal app claims to offer real world data, crowd sourced from users' mobiles. I can't vouch for it's accuracy, but you can download it and see if their maps match your experience.

I've used OpenSignal in the past. As it uses mobile phone data to map signal strength it should be accurate, but masts do come and go and develop faults so there's no way to know if the map data is current. I was hoping to use OpenSignal to work out the best network provider where I live but in the end I still had to obtain a SIM and check signal strength myself to determine what works best for me in my house. The problem is there is not enough crowd sourced data in less well populated areas, so all you get are a series of disconnected dots (data points) on the map. Probably fine in a big town or city.

J_B

glennevis said:

mobileron said:

For years i have suffered with a poor signal in my village and even worse in my stone house.
Lat year BT and others are now offering a service,where the calls will go via your wifi router in the house,check if your phone has wifi calling and switch it on.
Never lost a call since.

It's not as simple as 'check your phone'. You can only use WiFi calling if the network supports it.
Giffgaff don't support WiFi calling (yet).

But still 'check your phone' as some phones don't support it.

RumRat

I doubt WiFi calling is going to help in the woods up the road.    Just accept that it's a bad rural location and Mobile data is going to be dodgy. 
You can get free sims for most providers, just pop them in the phone and see if another provider can do any better for the exact location you want data reception.

MinuteNoodles

knightstyle said:

That is what I am thinking but which network?  It is obvious they lie about coverage so need independent information.

They don't lie about coverage. What they use is some well established software that has been in use for many years which looks at the height and location of a transmitter, the topology of the area in range of that transmitter, the frequency of transmission in question and makes a coverage calculation. You'll notice if you do it for a single site that areas that are hidden by a hill will show no coverage.

However what that software doesn't take into account is things like vegetation. At the frequencies mobile phones use this is important because trees and leaves, especially when wet, can massively affect the signal. You've found this out yourself by the fact it disappears when you're in a wood.

neilmcl

tyhyre said:

Phone coverage in 2020 is enhanced.

Thant's good to know, thanks 😉

mobileron

Ill presume he will spend more time in the house than in the woods,surely the signal outside will be better.

nick74

tyhyre said:

Phone coverage in 2020 is enhanced.

Not in Lincolnshire it isn't!