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Good news for Hanley Castle village, who suffered from poor / no mobile signal. They reached out to us at @worcscc to help them improve the situation. A great example of partnership working with the local community @wavemobileuk & @UKAirband. Another small cell install next week.

@ConnectingWorcs @worcscc @UKAirband Hanley Castle is the busiest weekday site on the network! Thankfully much quieter in the evening when the residents are in the pub and not using their phones 🙂

@NickJF75 I am one, maybe two valleys East of you... I will be disappointed as well!

If I don't see a #snow flake tomorrow morning here at 190m asl on the North Downs, I'll be very angry with GFS 😆

@voda_three The radio is 2x2 but it's in a lazy split 220° TRX1 and 320° TRX2. The antennas are Sirio panels, and for the price they have amazing performance. We tend to use the 2x2 version on most sectored micro cells.

@wavemobileuk What are the antenna models?

Finally testing the integration of GiLTE on our eNB. This model is a 250mW prototype. 3MHz Band 3 carrier gives 8Mb/s peak LTE plus C0 GSM/GPRS. Hardly blazing speeds but as a zero coverage solution it's pretty cool. Fits in the palm of your hand too 😊

@Andrewislington @original_lego11 @voda_three @jamesbody SysmoSIM's - fully configurable with Open Source software.

@original_lego11 @voda_three Yeah I looked at getting a blade RF a bit ago. Streamed a lot of @jamesbody with CH4ULK and looked into the @wavemobileuk M3Q base station. Thing for me is I don’t live rural and I kinda gotta to do that to really appreciate it. What did you guys do for SIM cards?

First tweet sent via my own LTE network😉

@Andrewislington This isn't possible. iDevices are perfect ❤️

iPhone 17 swapped. Hopefully this one isn’t as faulty as the last

@mdhardeman @DougMadory @Starlink My money is on AAA. Out of ten sites, only one remained active throughout - I don't know if it's coincidence but it's the only site on our network with Enterprise and auto-topup. It's also the most costly site by far!

@DougMadory @Starlink Is there a decent root cause speculation thread ongoing? My top two are “ill conceived global config push” and “the Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA) wasn’t as redundant as we thought”.

The @Starlink outage is now in excess of two hours in duration, making this incident Starlink's longest outage since becoming a major service provider. #starlinkdown

@Phonemast Will be interesting if they use MOCN and shared neighbour list, or do as TMO/Orange did and send eHPLMN to all the SIM cards in an OTA campaign...

Regarding 'Mocn' where #Vodafone masts will provide #Three access and vice versa only Threes offices in Reading and Vodafone hq in Newbury appear to be live ...if you find something do let me know!

@NickJF75 Oh no. We had better ready our emergency alert system as the Oxted Brook may flood!

What’s this on the Netweather.tv radar? A Daily Express 500-mile wide wall of rain?

At some point next week, @wavemobileuk will be re-launching roaming for some networks. This will provide incoming and outgoing calls/messaging alongside our "WiFi over cellular" service. Until we have true domestic roaming this will be an opt-in service and completely free. Watch this space for more info and please feel free to promote!

Work is underway to improve digital connectivity in Prestonpans. Phase One is improving broadband & mobile connectivity at The Pennypit Centre. Phase Two will improve WiFi & mobile signals in High Street & beyond orlo.uk/IR7M1 @GoFibre_UK @wavemobileuk @SFT_Scotland

Some nine months after we finished the #5GDRIVE project with @VMO2News, we continue to provide 4G+2G mobile coverage to 30 ultra rural areas mainly in Wales and Scotland using our all #British network. The number of unique devices that have accessed our network continues to climb and currently sits at over three million with an average static nighttime count in the high hundreds. Given the seasonal traffic that occurs at some of these sites (beaches, national parks, historical sites) it is amazing that the new device count continues to grow at a rate of thousands per day (with this Easter adding nearly a hundred thousand alone). wavemobile provides the infrastructure and connectivity to make this happen but due "legal and regulatory" issues with domestic interconnect we pay all of the traffic costs ourselves and need to find workarounds to overcome the red tape we are continually tripping over. Additionally we could provide a substantially better service to our customers were we able to secure a bigger chunk of Band 3 than the 3MHz Shared Access Licence, but nationally, there have been only 27 Local Access Licenses granted - and all of the ones we have applied for have been rejected so far due to "future operator plans". There is a large section of the telecoms community that believes that Starlink or AST is the panacea for rural communications. On a busy spring bank holiday, our network supports nearly 6,000 devices (admittedly struggling due to lack of spectrum availability). If this is from 30 small rural locations in the UK, it is likely that there will be a lot of congestion on the Non Terrestrial Networks when phones start pointing up rather than out. le success possible. wavemobile plans to expand significantly in 2025 with some ambitious plans in Scotland and Wales thanks to support from the Welsh Government and Scottish Futures Trust. We will need more "utility" spectrum, that is supported by regular devices as we are network that anyone can use, so more Local Access Licence applications will be going in. We also support 2G still for Emergency Call handling, some smart metering, and in-vehicle telematics (over 20% of the devices we see are 2G even today). Whilst the world is moving to 5GSA and there is talk of 6G, OpenRAN, etc. the real world is very much still using 4G and desperately needs better coverage out of cities and towns. For some places a small cell based solution with domestic roaming really is the only answer - four operators, four radios, four chunks of spectrum, four lots of backhaul, big street cabinets, complex monopoles is not the answer for a community of 40 people and this is where SRN is lacking. Some food for thought. Reflecting on what a small British company can do, with British designed and made technology we are very proud and would like to thank those who have worked with us to make this tangib

@Phonemast Cells on drones is an interesting but far from new concept. We have been working with various European countries and Snowdonia Aerospace on drone based cell coverage for Search and Rescue for some years now, and with good success.

@NickvNetworking IIRC our SigScale OCS is written in Erlang...

As someone learning Erlang / Elixir for telecom applications, this is an interesting read about Ericsson's use (or lack) of the language they created. iknek.github.io/blog/the-erlan…

@NickvNetworking @Gabeuk Yes Nick, but where is the innovation in that?

@Gabeuk We have this in 4G - when you make a voice call a low latency "network slice" reserves bandwidth and gives higher priority in the network for your call so you get a better experience, then and releases it at the end of the. It's called a Dedicated Bearer. nickvsnetworking.com/pre-5g-network…

It's starting...

@NickvNetworking Yes, I know who you mean and they are (rare but) not alone.

@wavemobileuk Case in point - One of the big MNOs in the US doesn't use the "ims" APN for IMS, but this means they force any OEM who wants to sell to their customer base to change their IMS stack, or the OEM's devices won't work on their network.

If you've ever wondered why carriers can't get voice / VoLTE right, here's an explainer on how we got here: nickvsnetworking.com/background-to-…

@Andrewislington Also, Starlink is generally way better than what you're showing there which makes me think that a WiFi mesh would be a good investment. Probably have one of those knocking around you can have...

Hey folks. Thinking as a nerdy project I’d like to create a private 4G network. Read a few guides online and my knowledge has improved. The question is, where can I get the equipment? Doing this purely for fun, though would love 4G in the local gym. Any ideas people?

I could probably rustle up an old indoor unit but with our current lack of full roaming I am not sure that WiFi wouldn't be better. Given the crappy bandwidth allocations available to us WiFi would definitely be faster for indoor use... In terms of private LTE (or 5GSA) for that matter, Open5GS is really good for a core. SRSran is a good open source LTE radio for quite a lot of hardware.

@Gabeuk The technology to do what needs to be fixed exists today, but the industry insists on marching onto the next big thing leaving it's user base frustrated. I think it's all a bit of a mess really.

@Gabeuk It is truly amazing that industry is now focusing on 6G when 5GSA is still largely a mess, the powering down of 3G has left gaping capacity and coverage holes and in general a substantial amount of the UK has the worst cellular coverage since the 00's.

This is the disaggregation we need in mobile comms