In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Edit: I see this is with 4G in mind. My apologies.

With high freq 5G and active Massive MIMO panels, I fully agree. I'm unsure about low band 5G, as I think the deployments are using existing 4G passive panels, but there isn't enough about yet.

Nothing stopping Massive MIMO on low band with active antennas, other than cost!

I can confirm 700Mhz deployments are often leveraging 4G kit. The site often gets upgrades at a later date for higher frequencies and then this is sunset into the new antennas.

This is one of the reasons why 5G is often so bad at first as they only have low frequency on eg n28.

How long till we get 5G-SA?! Here’s hoping

Edited by ukhardy07 (Thu 21-Sep-23 16:52:54)

As I understand the 3G areas reflect farmers who got into dispute and began refusing to host the masts as agreed, many hence didn’t get a 4G tower.

The specific area I am on about is very residential… at a guess it’s due to being in a natural ‘trough’ in the landscape … 4 and even 5G work well around the edges of this depression. Whether locals poo-poo’d some other mast way back I don’t know.

GU15 1DW puts you on Goldney Rd, and about a half mile radius around there is all but unusable.

I hope your suggestion of such places being spotted and picked up does actually happen. But I’ll not hold my breath for this spot.