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[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@disruptivedean You are not wrong, we travel to Europe regularly and need to register as new every time. It's a shambles.

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

It's been a busy week for @wavemobileuk with two new sites deployed including this one at Alfrick in Worcestershire. Also now live is Prospidnick in Cornwall. More sites going in over the coming weeks, thanks to our partners.

[Connecting_Worcestershire @ConnectingWorcs]

Small cell deployment in @worcscc village suffering with poor mobile service. Great working with @wavemobileuk, utilising @cellxica radios to offer an improvement to the Alfrick community. Professional build by @dragonwifi with a very neat & sensitive deployment. @MalvernHills_DC

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@satellitetruck The biggest challenge isn't the technology, the costs, or even the spectrum. It's the lack of cooperation from the MNO's.

[Connecting_Worcestershire @ConnectingWorcs]

Good news for Hanley Castle village, who suffered from poor / no mobile signal. They reached out to us at @worcscc to help them improve the situation. A great example of partnership working with the local community @wavemobileuk & @UKAirband. Another small cell install next week.

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@ConnectingWorcs @worcscc @UKAirband Hanley Castle is the busiest weekday site on the network! Thankfully much quieter in the evening when the residents are in the pub and not using their phones 🙂

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@NickJF75 I am one, maybe two valleys East of you... I will be disappointed as well!

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@voda_three The radio is 2x2 but it's in a lazy split 220° TRX1 and 320° TRX2. The antennas are Sirio panels, and for the price they have amazing performance. We tend to use the 2x2 version on most sectored micro cells.

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

Finally testing the integration of GiLTE on our eNB. This model is a 250mW prototype. 3MHz Band 3 carrier gives 8Mb/s peak LTE plus C0 GSM/GPRS. Hardly blazing speeds but as a zero coverage solution it's pretty cool. Fits in the palm of your hand too 😊

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@Andrewislington @original_lego11 @voda_three @jamesbody SysmoSIM's - fully configurable with Open Source software.

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@Andrewislington This isn't possible. iDevices are perfect ❤️

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@mdhardeman @DougMadory @Starlink My money is on AAA. Out of ten sites, only one remained active throughout - I don't know if it's coincidence but it's the only site on our network with Enterprise and auto-topup. It's also the most costly site by far!

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@Phonemast Will be interesting if they use MOCN and shared neighbour list, or do as TMO/Orange did and send eHPLMN to all the SIM cards in an OTA campaign...

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@NickJF75 Oh no. We had better ready our emergency alert system as the Oxted Brook may flood!

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

At some point next week, @wavemobileuk will be re-launching roaming for some networks. This will provide incoming and outgoing calls/messaging alongside our "WiFi over cellular" service.
Until we have true domestic roaming this will be an opt-in service and completely free.
Watch this space for more info and please feel free to promote!

[East Lothian Council - news and information @ELCouncil]

Work is underway to improve digital connectivity in Prestonpans. Phase One is improving broadband & mobile connectivity at The Pennypit Centre. Phase Two will improve WiFi & mobile signals in High Street & beyond https://t.co/nFcjD3q4Fs @GoFibre_UK @wavemobileuk @SFT_Scotland

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

Some nine months after we finished the #5GDRIVE project with @VMO2News, we continue to provide 4G+2G mobile coverage to 30 ultra rural areas mainly in Wales and Scotland using our all #British network. The number of unique devices that have accessed our network continues to climb and currently sits at over three million with an average static nighttime count in the high hundreds. Given the seasonal traffic that occurs at some of these sites (beaches, national parks, historical sites) it is amazing that the new device count continues to grow at a rate of thousands per day (with this Easter adding nearly a hundred thousand alone).

wavemobile provides the infrastructure and connectivity to make this happen but due "legal and regulatory" issues with domestic interconnect we pay all of the traffic costs ourselves and need to find workarounds to overcome the red tape we are continually tripping over. Additionally we could provide a substantially better service to our customers were we able to secure a bigger chunk of Band 3 than the 3MHz Shared Access Licence, but nationally, there have been only 27 Local Access Licenses granted - and all of the ones we have applied for have been rejected so far due to "future operator plans".

There is a large section of the telecoms community that believes that Starlink or AST is the panacea for rural communications. On a busy spring bank holiday, our network supports nearly 6,000 devices (admittedly struggling due to lack of spectrum availability). If this is from 30 small rural locations in the UK, it is likely that there will be a lot of congestion on the Non Terrestrial Networks when phones start pointing up rather than out.
le success possible.
wavemobile plans to expand significantly in 2025 with some ambitious plans in Scotland and Wales thanks to support from the Welsh Government and Scottish Futures Trust. We will need more "utility" spectrum, that is supported by regular devices as we are network that anyone can use, so more Local Access Licence applications will be going in. We also support 2G still for Emergency Call handling, some smart metering, and in-vehicle telematics (over 20% of the devices we see are 2G even today). Whilst the world is moving to 5GSA and there is talk of 6G, OpenRAN, etc. the real world is very much still using 4G and desperately needs better coverage out of cities and towns. For some places a small cell based solution with domestic roaming really is the only answer - four operators, four radios, four chunks of spectrum, four lots of backhaul, big street cabinets, complex monopoles is not the answer for a community of 40 people and this is where SRN is lacking. Some food for thought.

Reflecting on what a small British company can do, with British designed and made technology we are very proud and would like to thank those who have worked with us to make this tangib

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@Phonemast Cells on drones is an interesting but far from new concept. We have been working with various European countries and Snowdonia Aerospace on drone based cell coverage for Search and Rescue for some years now, and with good success.

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@NickvNetworking IIRC our SigScale OCS is written in Erlang...

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@NickvNetworking @Gabeuk Yes Nick, but where is the innovation in that?

[wavemobile @wavemobileuk]

@NickvNetworking Yes, I know who you mean and they are (rare but) not alone.