Out, damned spot!
"...with a recent meeting resulting in promises from telcos to install micro-cells to address black spots...."
How would this work? Just the pub and surrounding alleys?
India's department of telecommunications has hauled the nation's telcos in for a stern-talking to, because the nation's suffering an epidemic of dropped calls. A report issued last week ((PDF) by the nation's Telecoms Regulatory Authority found that one in eight calls on 2G networks drops out, while calls on other networks …
Pakistan's Mobilink (i.e. Nation's largest telecom with approx 40million customers) has long been providing a Service/VAS in which every drop call is refunded with 1minute and is notified via SMS to customer about the dropped call and refund given!. This is not only very ingenuitive of Mobilink but also very unique as none of the other 4 telcos (telenor,ufone,zong,warid) have been able to implement this yet...
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"I've suffered much worse 2G performance than this in Brasil."
Think of us poor Australians. In the next couple of years, 2G is going to be wiped out entirely (lack of use or so they claim).
Problem is, we have many trackers and alarm systems that are built around 2G modules that come from Europe where 2G is still plentiful. Well, they're going to wipe out that industry in one swoop.
Upgrading to 3G isn't feasable, as the GSM module isn't a module, it's integrated into the rest of the device - we expect customers are going to forking over bucketloads of money to get it working again...
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Wow, what great networks they have. If only one in 8 of my calls here in Blighty dropped out on me I would be in heaven. And I have been on 3 different networks in the last couple of years. Oh, I live in the South and spend a lot of time in London suburbs, "semi rural" parts of, the M25 and M3/M4 corridors.
Maybe OFCOM should invite the UK Telco's in for a chat and cup of tea?
Maybe OFCOM should invite the UK Telco's in for a chat and cup of tea?
That's OFCOM's problem: Its heaviest sanction is to withhold the jammy dodgers at the next meeting. Faced with spending a few tens of millions to fix problems that only affect customers, the telcos just laugh and bring their own biscuits next time.
> If only one in 8 of my calls here in Blighty dropped out on me I would be in heaven.
Ditto in Oz. I have a relative on an Optus-hosted MVNO and anything over five minutes is pretty much doomed to drop. But, hey, cheapskate, we ain't calling you back. I have a sneaky suspicion that its the MVNO indulging in social engineering. People just get used to it and spend less time on the phone, which is fine for them because everyone is on package minutes rather than pay-per-minute.