Found this earlier which is scary. The British Infrastructure Group said foreign visitors get better coverage, as they are not tied to any provider, so can use the strongest signal. The report said 17 million customers had poor reception at home and it named 525 areas with non-existent coverage. Phone companies insist they are working hard to make their coverage better. Which in real speak means they are doing nothing. I beleive they say it is too complex to allow roaming in the UK. Although the planning departments must take some blame as the process for getting permits approved is too long, I think it takes 18 months to build a site.
I also cannot get signal at my home in England. We had to buy a booster that uses our Internet as there is literally none around, even though plenty of people live where we are. If you check the signal maps, all coverage is good to excellent ... yeah, right!
It's exactly the same if a Brit roams in Europe, the USA, anywhere. And the same if a French mobile roams in Italy or Germany.
Look up Project Beacon, O2 and Vodafone entered into a mast sharing agreement back in 2012. This was rolled out nationwide over the following few years.
Plumbing? Dentistry? *gets coat* As the Germans say: ...der Geist ist willig doch das Fleisch ist rar...
Normal countries keep hold of infrastructure and charge private rail companies to use it. Similar case with landline telecoms - which seems to be the case with BT being split into the infra and provider companies. I suspect that mast sharing is another thing altogether - the govt makes money from leasing out slices of the radio spectrum so they consider their job done and gtfo.
I and one or two others posted a link to the report on Three's and other mobile providers Facebook page as we were wondering why there had been absolutely no comment on the report. All the posts have been deleted so the silence of the industry speaks volumes.
Next year i'll run for Prime Mister you guys get me voted in with pre-wrote speeches of supporting the working class, and free food for teen mums. In which i'll bring out my master plan and install super fast broadband, then compulsory buy back every damn thing Thatcher sold off to make "Britain G-R-E-A-T again" meanwhile watching the Country burn
Pretty sure, at this stage, anything we're the leader of in the future will be something you don't want to be the leader of.
£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££ then some more ££££££££££££££££££££££££ and then waiting about a decade for it to pay off...
Oh and we cheated... but 'legally' [we had a technological advantage with the bikes, aparrently]... TL-DR - we were better at cheating than the competition...
Ah well, wordplays, I'm sorry. The original is something like: "Der Geist ist willig, doch das Fleisch ist schwach" (The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak) The newer variant is: "der Geist ist willig doch das Fleisch ist rar" (The spirit is willing but the flesh is rare) Which applies to the condition of rare opportunities
