[andyukguy]

Hi all,

We all know o2 are rolling out and activating UMTS900 in major cities. They have been for many months now. My understanding is that the company Vodafone and o2 setup (Cornerstone) is managing this rollout for both providers. If this is true then why have we not seen any UMTS900 action from Vodafone? Basically I thought if a UMTS900 site was put in place or an existing site upgraded to support UMTS900 by Cornerstone then both Vodafone and o2 would be able to use it. As we know o2 are using these sites what on earth is Vodafone's logic to not start using them also?

Colour me confused.

[Ben]

Cornerstone is just an infrastructure share, not like the full network share MBNL gives Three and T-Mobile. Therefore I'm not sure that there's any automatic guarantee that work on one network implies work on another.

Cornerstone appears to only manage sites numbering in the hundreds. It's entirely possible that O2 are rolling out 3G900 off their own back on non-Cornerstone sites I suppose.

I'm not using an O2 SIM at the moment so I can't 'see' this rollout for myself, but my Vodafone one is making it abundantly clear that they're not aggressively rolling out 3G900, as you say.

I've put a message on their eforum, you've got me intrigued.

[Ben]

Just a quick nod to this thread, which I found linked to on the Vodafone eforum when my own question got merged into an older thread on the subject! https://talk3g.co.uk/showthread.php?8761-How-to-test-for-900Mhz-3G-on-an-iPhone-4

eforum thread is here and Vodafone are remaining completely tight-lipped, much to the aggravation of the thread participants. http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Network/Vodafone-UK-3G-on-900MHz/td-p/644515