Three/EE Mast Sharing

Zee · 14-12-2012, 18:25

So i believe Three & T-Mobile have been in a sharing agreement for both companies masts for some time now, but since Orange & T-Mobile are together now to form EE, are Three customers able to use Orange cell sites?

If not when will this happen? Has anyone got any information?

qasdfdsaq · 17-12-2012, 02:08

It happened years ago.

Zee · 16-04-2013, 23:24

so my contract with Three is coming to an end next month and I hav been using a t mobile pay as you go sim for the last week just to test out of there is a better signal there or not, and there does actually appear to be.

The entire north side of my town centre, Three signal is almost none existant and I've been told work is planned on a new mast in the area, but seems on my t mobile phone, in the same area there are 5 bars on the phone, where as on Three there is 0 or 1 bar. I thought they were in a sharing agreement, since Orange is now part of EE, shouldn't all these masts be being shared.

Also I believe Orange is able to use the Three masts which are being shared with T-Mobile, so how comes Three doesn't seem to be getting the same signal quality?

Hom3r · 21-04-2013, 19:18

I know T-Mobile & Orange are becoming EE and the previous names will be dropped.

My T-mobile shop is now EE.

I know Virgin are using there masts, but not heard about 3.

But I guess one day, they will all share and we get a good signal all the time.

Shaun · 21-04-2013, 22:14

They appear to share all Three and T-Mobile sites but strategic Orange sites are excluded.

We live on a development that is on the side of a hill. The signal for all networks is non existent (no matter what their coverage checkers say) appart from EE.

There is an Orange mast opposite the development, I was hoping it would be added to the sharing agreement after the roaming agreement with Orange ended. It didn't. 2000 homes coveted by only one mast on one network. They were never going to share that!

I'm on Three for my mobile, and T-Mobile for my Nexus 7. I only stayed with Three because they give me a HomeSignal box otherwise it would have had to be a move to T-Mobile or Orange.

Zee · 24-04-2013, 18:11

I do know according to the MBNL website that around 4,000 masts are "three only" for capacity. Since the agreement is with "EE" and Orange is now EE, why are these masts not shared?

nodrogd · 24-04-2013, 23:21

3 & T-Mobile site share at a lot of locations. But even where lampposts are used, if you look at the OFCOM data, they show different antenna heights, which suggests that multi-section antennas are in use.

Despite that some of the data is out-of-date, the OFCOM sitefinder database is still a useful tool as to the location & configuration of base stations.