cellid start digit is what to look for?

That means I have glorious 2600 and cellid 6 (this is indoors also)

Edited by Chrysalis (Sat 03-Dec-16 11:55:20)

Thanks for that, wolves.

Now that OfCom have dropped the mast map, does anyone know how to
a) Find masts' locations
b) See output frequencies for masts in the UK?

The old one was useless anyway as it was so outdated.

I use mastdata.com but not sure how upto date that is or where the data comes from.

Thanks, UKH - looks just like the old OfCom map but better than nothing! I suspect fairly 'out-of-date' - seems to pre-date EE's absorption of Orange and T-M

In London there's some new ones on there which are less than a year old.

There have been issues with account provisioning according to sources inside EE.

The areas I have seen 800mhz previously, I haven't had a sniff of for over 2 weeks.

3CA is also appearing in areas now too. Wembley Stadium being an example.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

If you're picking up band 7 (2600) then that's probably a "high capacity" area for EE, so they've added the band 7 capacity to the band 3.

Does that bear any relation to where they've implemented their "double speed" or "4G+" areas? The coverage maps always suggested that such areas were based on a smaller number of masts, so I always assumed it was extra frequencies + carrier aggregation that achieved those.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I'm not expecting any band 20 / 800 in my town, as we have a very good band 3 / 1800 service and really high speeds; and our town centre is bathed in band 7 / 2600 - giving 100+ mbps speeds on a CA device.

Ironically, I wonder if the opposite is true. The band 20/800 areas will propagate a long distance, but will presumably have to start from a mast with good backhaul ... so likely to be one of their "better" masts. The centre of an 800 coverage zone is likely to be bettered by 1800/2600 coverage ... as the 800 is really only needed in the outer zones.

On the other hand, a "better" 800 mast is likely to be one that gets long-distance coverage, which might be the opposite of a "good backhaul", town-based, mast.

Double speed is 20Mhz of 1800Mhz 4G spectrum - compared to 10Mhz of 1800mhz which is normal 4G spectrum for EE.

4G+ is generally 1800Mhz + 2600Mhz combined.

Does the line

Customers will need a 4G Calling-capable phone to use the new low frequency signal. 4G Calling is available on monthly SIM and handset plans, on the majority of EE�s device range.

mean that 800MHz will only wok on Handsets with EE ROMs? I'm asking as I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F - not sold by EE) an I have yest to see any improvement in 4G coverage despite the coverage checker being updated to show 4 out of 5 bars of 4G for my locality. I Understand that VOLTE will not work but I was hoping for 4G data at the least.