Vodafone / O2 to share masts across Europe

long_b

Including here.

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Good for Vodafone here I'd say.

Rsaeire

I hope that this will result in better service for customers on both networks as proposed.

Kurn

SOunds like great news really, if it works out, it could help also if one network went down in an area?

billbond4

They already do this in the UK and Ireland

Rsaeire

billbond4 wrote: »

They already do this in the UK and Ireland

Yes, but now Vodafone will be sharing their network with another other mobile network; bringing the total to three at the same time in the west. This will no doubt result in loss of service in the west, especially due to Meteor's national roaming agreement. If the Vodafone network goes down in an area that has practically no O2 coverage, that means all 2G users will have no coverage whatsoever. Of course this is a worst case scenario, but it goes to show the ramifications of Vodafone stretching themselves too thin in certain areas in the country.

Brian

Any benefit to Meteor customers accruing from this agreement?

Random

Baza210 wrote: »

Any benefit to Meteor customers accruing from this agreement?

Meteor roam on Vodafone in certain areas where they have limited or no coverage, I can only assume they that they would benefit from any additional Vodafone network capacity added by this in areas where Meteor have no coverage?


I'm all for this deal in general ... once the next step isn't O2 / Vodafone combining into one big super expensive phone network!

It does seem to increase the point of failure and reduce redundancys though

mobius42

More info on this from O2 here :http://forums.o2online.ie/forums/showthread.php?t=3539

Hi guys,
I can confirm that in line with the announcement made by Telefónica and Vodafone in the UK today, we have signed a new site sharing agreement with Vodafone in Ireland.

Site sharing is not new in Ireland, in fact it is a legal requirement of our licence and as a result O2 already shares the majority of its 1,600 sites around the country with other mobile operators, including Vodafone. The revised site sharing agreement with Vodafone will facilitate a more proactive approach to site sharing, including consolidating existing sites where possible, as well as identifying and building new sites together.

The new site sharing deal will enable O2 to enhance service quality within its network at a faster rate than before and help deliver services such as mobile broadband to a wider population. With reduced network roll-out costs, the company can accelerate investment in innovative products and services and importantly, with fewer sites, this move will reduce O2’s impact on the environment.

Also, this doesn't mean that if you have poor O2 signal, you can jump on Vodafone's signal instead nor vice versa. They're looking into that:http://forums.o2online.ie/forums/showthread.php?t=3539&page=2

mk6705

This looks like a small difference to Vodafone that will make a big difference to O2. I think it should be stressed though that this is no roaming agreement, just that more Vodafone and O2 masts will be located in the same place. Not something for anyone to get excited about really.