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moving office- phone coverage ok?

Posted by Gerard under Coverage blackspots

How many people move office and assume that their mobiles will work at the new location?  Anyone bother to check the coverage from their operator before moving in?  Anyone had that terible Monday morning when you discover there is no coverage in the new office?

Why not commission a coverage check of your new office or premises before moving in?  Find out the coverage from all the UK operators before the big move!  You will know if your mobiles will work or now before that big day.

 

Look at the Smartersurvey product at http://www.smartermobile.com/sNet_survey.php.   Unbiased coverage advice. Perfect for that office move.

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Coverage Black Spots!

Posted by admin under Coverage blackspots

Advantages: Out doors most are OK
Disadvantages: All UK networks have problems

Here’s a few things you probably don’t know. In general the four UK networks consider their coverage to be acceptable. New sites are installed, and existing sites upgraded not for coverage reasons, but for capacity reasons – if a base station is overloaded they are losing revenue, if you have poor coverage you’ll just try again. A lot more site sharing is happening than ever did in the past. This means a bad signal is as likely to be due to a poorly optimized network than it is to poor coverage – just watch how quickly the signal comes back! I work in the industry, so perhaps I shouldn’t say this, but in terms of coverage I’d rate them as: Vodafone, Orange, O2, One2One (inc. Virgin). …

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