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I'm tired of the Three coverage and "uptime". Fine, now they're down, shit happens, I can deal with it.

What pisses me off is their permanent shitty signal - enter a supermarket - no signal, enter a data centre (at work, where I spend most of the day) - no signal, go in a building with thicker walls (e.g. Barbican) - no signal.

In all these places Virgin Mobile has no problems.

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(half remembered, take with a grain salt)

Building penetration of a signal gets worse as frequency increases - so Three UK (2100 MHz) suffers more than Vodafone UK (900+2100 MHz) inside large/heavy buildings. Three has LTE (4G) coverage planned at 800+1800 MHz so eventually this should improve.

I find Three has superb coverage throughout London. Elsewhere it's not so good.

Newcastle city centre is fine (around 19-20Mb most days) but I'm lucky to get 4Mb once I'm a couple of miles out.

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