In reply to a post by yarwell:

The Croft Bed and Breakfast
Lewes Road
Horsted Keynes, West Sussex RH17 7DP

He's got probably the UK's best steam railway, and the station Downton Abbey filmed at in the village. No need for internet

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

I can go from EE 4G then 10 feet away indoors drop to GPRS.

Only some masts have so far been 4G'd - but eventually they all will. GPRS from EE is also transmitted at 1800mhz the same as EE's 4G, so there is probably something (hill?) blocking the signal from the 4G mast to you, so you're getting another mast that hasn't bee upgraded yet.

Was a surprise to find their 4G network was here, after years of GPRS on both Vodafone and Orange. The Vodafone is so flaky I have a SureSignal.

Yes Vodafone has been useless, just look at Ofcom maps! They decided to spend money in other countries and ignored the UK for a long time. O2 just didn't have the money, but they spent on 3G where they could, so you can often get a very slow 3G signal from O2 where Vodafone has GPRS. They are both throwing out 4G very fast, but it requires new price plan and 4G compatible phones. EE will be ahead for a couple of years yet, then Voda may be their equal.

We are still waiting for fibre. We have ADSL2+ but not had it long. The fibre website says within 18 months and its still at planning stage for our exchange.

In reply to a post by Banger:

We are still waiting for fibre. We have ADSL2+ but not had it long. The fibre website says within 18 months and its still at planning stage for our exchange.

Openreach fibre availability doesn't affect mobile phone companies.

Might do
https://www.elibrary-openreach.co.uk/Mobile-Infill-I...

I followed that link through to-

https://www.elibrary-openreach.co.uk/Engineering-Sol...

"
With us, you can draw on the expertise of more than
20,000 engineers. Between them, they�ve amassed nearly
750,000 years� experience in assessing and tackling a
multitude of onsite engineering challenges.
"

If the figure of "20,000" is reasonably accurate (I have seen 25,000 elsewhere), then they on aveerage must have 37.5 years of service, very close to the typical of 40 years at retirement.

I wonder if OR/BT is training replacements?

In reply to a post by Ribble:

Might do
https://www.elibrary-openreach.co.uk/Mobile-Infill-I...

Okay Openreach would like it to, but the mobile networks are using Virgin and Vodafone are using their networks division (formerly C&W).

The last time we moved house I used my veto when wife started handing me details of houses with septic tanks. Mobile? Internet? Cor blimey.

John

I'm sure openreach provide plenty of ethernet and other circuits for vf , O2, and ee

In reply to a post by Ribble:

I'm sure openreach provide plenty of ethernet and other circuits for vf , O2, and ee

Agreed.