[munhitsu]

My personal bugbear is the network coverage. Context: London / UK (EE). Yes, I have 5G at home, but it's just one bar and sometimes even this one bar will disappear. Yes, there is 5G/4G all around the city, but you can't hold an uninterrupted conversation over FaceTime Audio while on the overground train or driving. I'll not even discuss the underground. However, uninterrupted, low-latency, average bandwidth is a hard market and even harder to design.

[zipy124]

Yup, I recently travelled to Hong-Kong from the the UK and noticed just how much better coverage was in the city. I expect poor coverage when I'm in Yorkshire, but there is no excuse for just how bad London's coverage is. A lot of it seems to come down to which carrier you are on, a quick look at coverage maps [1] and you can see what carrier you are on is really important in some parts of the country.

[1]:https://www.nperf.com/en/map/GB/-/2012851.Three-Mobile/signa...

[rsynnott]

My impression (from pretty limited recent experience) is that mobile networks in UK cities (at least London and Manchester) are _notably_ worse than in other European cities. I initially thought it was just a London thing, and, okay, London's very, very big, but was recently in Manchester, which has no such excuse, and it was also pretty terrible.

Not sure what's going on there.

[Garvi]

Most people are shunning the covid topic for various reasons, so no one is bringing up the fact that the British torched a lot of their 5G infrastructure to "stop the spread of covid". There were over 80 such arson incidents, but I'm sure this number will go down with time.

[rsynnott]

I'm guessing that that was probably not in city centres, tho.

(Also, where're you getting 'over 80'? From a quick search there seem to have been maybe 5 masts damaged/destroyed.)

[Garvi]

In your search results. It was well over 80 at the time. 80 is the number mostly cited nowadays. I see you're down to 5 damaged. Good for you.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/least-90-phone-masts-a...

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-90-attacks-on-phone-m...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52164358

https://www.businessinsider.com/77-phone-masts-fire-coronavi...

[rsynnott]

Vast majority of those were not destroyed or damaged. I think some of the tabloids may have conflated "any vandalism or attempted vandalism" with "actually damaged", but, well, that's tabloids for you.

> I see you're down to 5 damaged. Good for you.

Who's 'you' in this context?

[Garvi]

That's not really ambiguous.

So it didn't happen, because it was *obviously* made up? The problem with such reasoning is, it does not require substantiation. You should find 20 people that also believe it(shouldn't have a problem on this platform) and you can start a religion.