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🍂 HELLO FORKERS … Nov ‘21 🍂

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hmm ... my son says we soon won't have cable tv/phones or whatnots ... it'll all be via our mobile phones ... he's tried to explain it to me ........ 🤯
    and for those who don't own one?
    Devon.
  • I dunno @Hostafan1 ... I'll have to ask him to explain it to you ......... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I dunno @Hostafan1 ... I'll have to ask him to explain it to you ......... 
    What's the timescale for this transition?
    Devon.
  • He says it'll start changing within the next couple of years ... if I understand him correctly it'll be so much cheaper because there won't be all the underground cabling to maintain and eventually the companies won't bother with it.  I've no idea about the timescale tho' ..... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    He says it'll start changing within the next couple of years ... if I understand him correctly it'll be so much cheaper because there won't be all the underground cabling to maintain and eventually the companies won't bother with it.  I've no idea about the timescale tho' ..... 
    will there be infrastructure in place by then to guarantee 100% signal coverage for the whole country?
    Devon.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Morning all.

    OH doesn't have a mobile signal where he lives in Norfolk. My French phone picks up the nearest signal in the UK wherever I am. It didn't have a signal at the old house but it does at the new house.

    I've just been to the Remembrance Service at the village war memorial. Chatted to neighbours afterwards, which was nice. We haven't met many people here yet thanks to Covid.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Hostafan1 said:
    He says it'll start changing within the next couple of years ... if I understand him correctly it'll be so much cheaper because there won't be all the underground cabling to maintain and eventually the companies won't bother with it.  I've no idea about the timescale tho' ..... 
    will there be infrastructure in place by then to guarantee 100% signal coverage for the whole country?
    I imagine so ... I expect one system will be phased out as the other is phased in ... 

    Aha ... this has an explanation 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58233420

    I'd better read it so I can understand what on earth my son is telling me ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Ah I see  now,  it’s just about re doing the Landlines.   I think work has already begun on that. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    If you listen to radio / TV "phone ins" you constantly hear cracks in the line and total drop outs . These all sound to me like they're on "mobiles" We've all just used to it but it's much worse than "landlines".
    My sister gets free calls on her mobile but pays for landline. If she calls me on her mobile, the signal is often so bad, I call her back on her landline.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited November 2021
    And now our t’internet has cut out again …. so I’m using my phone and the 3G signal…

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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