To be sick of the piss poor phone signal across UK

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I'm sick of it.

I'm in a place I've been to a million and one times. It's usually got amazing signal but this time I can barely get 3G! I was down in Cornwall the other month and despite having full 5G it wouldn't even send a text!

It's shocking, what am I even paying for with my phone contract at this point

Mine is fine. (Vodafone.) 😐

Not sure if it is piss poor everywhere though. I'm from the North East and never had a problem with phone signal. I've been to the South Coast a few times recently and was shocked how bad it was down there.

Signal is awful in Manchester now

I'm in the south so maybe that's it, but it's just awful these days

It’s all those activists tying themselves to phone masts, saying they will fry children’s brains, before they graduated to throwing soup over paintings. It was a different “fear of the day” back then.

I live in inner London and at times phone reception is truly appalling. I complained to my provider and they said it's because "London is very busy". 🙄

But something must be done, as the state is making us dependent o our phones, and wants to outlaw cash, so how dare they give us a less than perfect signal?

More seriously though, this is why we should be wary of being too dependent on our phones. Many people would be in serious trouble if they suddenly stopped working.

It's nothing to do with that, it's the fact I'm paying near enough £70 a month for an unlimited data plan but can't get good enough signal to stream music at the gym!

Yep
Earlier this year I spent a week 100 miles into the arctic circle. Signal was perfect. Home in my small city, it's hit and miss.

Yep we don't have 5G in the UK the same as in other places - the more people that use it, the less signal they all have. Inner London is basically wifi only at this point. I wish they would creat more masts!

Agreed, mine moved from Virgin to EE as the companies sent on the contracts, and the reception is terrible, people are shouting 'I can't hear you' when I try to make regular phone calls. I have to go upstairs to have better reception, but my office at home is downstairs! Internet is slightly better so I often Whatsapp these days.

We are becoming a third world country where mobile signal is concerned.

Everywhere I go in mainland Europe I get 5G the moment I step off the plane. Even the smallest village on top of a mountain in Spain you get 5G.

It's a joke. Lucky if you get 4G here half the time. I have no idea why the UK is so far behind other countries. Why anyone would invest in the UK given our woeful connectivity is beyond me.

God this is relatable 😂

I was at the Dutch Grand Prix this summer with 150k other people and could literally stream the race live on sky go as I was there. Land back in the UK and I can barely load Facebook!

Yes! It’s fucking ridiculous. We’re on o2 and have no signal at all at home, which is rural but very flat so there should be something surely. But we also can’t get a signal in big parts of Lancaster, Morecambe, Preston, Blackpool or Blackburn which are all big towns or cities 😡. DH tried to complain to o2 and first they told us it must be our phones with the issue (all 3 of them, plus my work phone and all my colleagues’ work phones…) then they wanted the exact postcode of where we can’t get signal… all of them FFS!!

I switched from EE to O2 and sent back the phone and ended the contract within 24 hours because I had no signal anywhere, when you google it's because o2 have shut down their 3G network while also massively rolling out their 4G & 5G network so there's too many people using it essentially

I moved to 3 and they're decent but it's just times like this, I've got full 4G but can't play music, Twitter won't load, even BBC won't load?

It’s down to density. City centres and London in particular have vast numbers of phones connecting to limited numbers of masts. Every single person you can see in a crowded shopping/city centre will probably have at least one device, trying to connect to the same mast at the same time.

Add in tall buildings, a lot of concrete, black spots, offices full of people with even more devices and phones….

Plus masts are closer together, so your phone is constantly having to swap to the nearest mast as you move. Millions of phones all doing the same thing.

We are woefully behind other European cities. There needs to be massive investments in the infrastructure which isn’t happening.

People moan about new masts being put up so none are. Phone companies have us over a barrel; we all want/need to have one, so we’ll buy it anyway as a shit signal is better than no phone at all.

Rural can mean that local communities protest more vocally against new masts. Classic NIMBY behaviour….You have my sympathy, it is an absolute joke 😤

Even when your phone says you have 4G, it's often the 4G lie, and barely functions!

Liverpool city centre has diabolical signal.

I'm in Cornwall & something definitely changed a few months ago on the North Coast. EE, 3, voda & ID are verging on useless. Often showing 4G but the signal isn't actually there despite their coverage maps being good for here. EE & 3 used to be extremely reliable but not any more.

Hasn't 3G been turned off ?

If a place normally has a good signal and doesn't then there are a few reasons

A fault - these can take time to detect and fix

An unusual load - someone hogging the signal or a lot more people than normal there . If this becomes the norm the capacity will be uplifted but that takes time ( and money )

Canterbury is a weird dead zone for phone signal.

Something like 1% of traffic was on the 3 G network so if you have lost service as a result it would be rather surprising

I’m also getting very pissed off with O2 and signal issues.

Manchester is absolutely awful now. It often says 5G but I can't actually do anything. I'm on tesco which I think is O2? I can't do Vodafone as had absolutely appalling signal and service from them (sending debt collector letters after they agreed to cancel my contract!!)

I also said to DH that there’s no other service that would charge you to not provide the service 😡.