Femtocells / coverage
The village I live in has some 200 properties. I don't know anyone who can make calls reliably (i.e. that don't drop) from indoors. Some (like me) can't even send/receive text messages indoors.
We are only a few miles from a major town, significant areas of which only have 2G data.
My provider (vodafone) offers "Wifi Calling", which allows them to use my internet to charge me for making calls. It does not support text messages (though the standard does) and they don't seem to want to provide that facility.
I used to use a "Sure Signal", but that was useless as phones keep latching on to the weak mast signal (they say this is "by design") and only switch to the much stronger femtocell when the call drops.
I think the providers should be told they can't use any 5G services until they get areas like this to the point where we can use 2G services without having to stand outside!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
