Why isn't my (your) Mobile Phone working? Podcast Part 1 feat. Challenge The Road 

Part 1 of a 3 part podcast chat with Richard from ​⁠ 1... Why is my phone always rubbish? What was the best mobile phone? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NU1mRyxmYv8.html 2... Richard sold his EV, lost weight and got depressed. What's this about? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uw-nvVvw8fc.html 3... Supercar values... Do we really need million pound cars? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ntbIPUlkp0o.html

The phone companies make their phones with super duper features, but the one thing your fancy phone can't do is make a nice clear phone call

when i was a teen, i had to go to the end of the road to the phone box😂

I'd rather just scrap mobile phones altogether, and go back to having a red phone box on every street corner. That way, we can all stay connected when we need to, and retain our privacy when we don't.

My next phone will be a tin can on the end of a piece of string. Remember when we did that as kids. Can't be any worse. Seriously, my next phone will be a dumb phone, just need to talk and text.

I'm getting no signal most times . It comes when you tell the Truth.

Vodafone told customers they are switching 3g off 🤷 my signal with vodafone has been crap for years and now virtually non-existent at home. Ive kept my landline for this reason, especially to keep in contact with elderly family members

It is all about control, they want to know where you are all the time.

They need it for all the new cameras and ev data that needs fast real time in order for autonomous driving and ai systems.

I PHONES ARE SHIT AND A LOT OF MONEY

I still use my old 3g Nokia - battery last 5 days. No smart stuff, just basic texting and calls .

I've had my phone off ALL day! I'm gonna get a CB radio, remember how much fun they were talking to someone many miles away. Oh and years ago kids walky talkies were even better than the adult ones....I'm off to scout the vintage toy section on ebay lol

My signal (in Switzerland) is always excellent. Which is quite incredible given the amount of mountains we have... Wait, there aren't any mountains in Worcestershire! Go figure🤷🏻‍♂️

It's to format a grid system.

I'm on three, service is appalling. Worst Ive known since owning a mobile in 1997

Maybe we are not supposed to talk together over phone, like we are not supposed to travel, drive, move around.

They took all the money. Now they want more.

I turned off news notifications on my phone about 3 years ago. Life is much nicer when you access news in small doses.

I'm with O2 for years and a couple of years ago I bought a 2nd hand phone from someone who was on EE. Soon after I started using it I received a bill from EE, who I've never used, in an E-mail on my desktop at home?? That fried my brain a little, of course I ignored it.

Years ago I had a Motorola mobile, it was a company flip phone and the flip was just a plate that covered the keypad. Best phone ever, it came with a book that gave dialling codes for everywhere even oceans. That phone had full signal everywhere and I charged it twice a week. Wish I had one now.

I like the way RU-vid when breaking to an advert shows the advert with the dog called Geoff sat on the sofa watching tv while his owner is checking in on him using a home camera from work. “Just checking on Geoff, yes he’s fine” 🤣

I have a Nokia E66 slide..2006 on 02 pay as you go..its working fine!..i dont want a smart phone until i have no option!

I have an iPhone but never use it for banking never download music only use CD's always have CD player in car only use phone for calls, texting, utube videos and when I go out for a good drive phone off CD's playing, just the way it used to be and always will be for me...

Digital means on or off. Analogue could be anywhere from off to on and all the levels inbetween. A low power signal just meant a 'noisy' call whereas with digital it means ZERO call.

2G is what is used for phone calls and texts. I rarely use mobile data, only really for live traffic / sat nav. I would never stream a film on a handheld device. 4G has plenty of speed. 5G isn't really so your twitter loads 1 second faster, it is for all the surveillance stuff to communicate, all the cameras , smart devices, things that track our movements. It can't be healthy to live in a soup of digital electromagnetic radiation.

5G gives the speeds necessary for mass surveillance, it is that simple. It takes many more masts for 5G and instead of using the money they fleece out of people, to cover those costs, they would sooner switch off other masts. This is the sort of thing that should have Ofcom hopping, they aren't because they no longer serve the consumer.

My cb radio in the 80s had more signal than my phone

You know what the government mean when they say "Take care of somebody"!

Signal has been crap since they have been spraying aluminium oxide in the sky

It’s like this. If we can’t get a signal,stop buying mobile phones. Then they,if they want our money will have to improve.

You cannot get an ambulance so no need for faster data! 🤔

Fun fact 4G Mobile phone coverage is INCREDIBLE in Hungary (compared to the UK) I have been all over rural Hungary and never not had a signal, even on the underground metro or up a mountain, they seem to have coverage everywhere. In the UK, I can't get a signal in my local town centre 🤷‍♂ Hungary's tax budget is 1% of the UK's by the way

I make phone calls and alot of the time the call drops and i have to ring them back, sometimes while on the phone people can't suddenly hear me so then i have to ring back. Very annoying

I live in a village between Bedford and Northampton, We get one bar in the morning and no hope in the afternoon on. Calling debt collectors or hospitals or what ever where you have to wait for hours to be answered you dont have a hope as the signal drops out completely and cuts you off. Its disconnection hell. Even connected to the houses wifi One bars the max. Yet they keep demanding we pay them full wack. I had to call my Mum the other day, She lives in Sunny spain, I have to drive 8 miles towards town before i can keep a call going.

I’m in a rural area, used to get a solid 4g signal, now it’s very intermittent. If it gets any worse I will just ditch the mobile all together. I only use it for phone calls and texts anyway

My signal has dropped from 4g to E. Its been like thay a year or more, making a call is dam near impossible.

Not one phonecall works properly. We’re genuinely thinking about using cbs

I remember taking calls on the beach at Harlech on my Nokia 6310i

Safe working distance from a 5g mast is 400m. To improve internet service, 5g mast need to be 150 to 230m. So when your in a smart city with mast approx 200m apart. You will never be in a safe area. People that have implants, pacemakers etc are screwed.

GEOFF ,I drove manchester to bristol to pick my daughter up. I arrived then i went to a lloyds cash machine in bristol ,i swear it ate my card ,I went in and said your machine just ate my card She said yes its been doing that all day ,arrrr mad . So i went to my branch nationwide at 3,15pm ,can i have £100 she said have you got your card sir .No its in lloyds machine ,Ok Sir the best we can do is £40 after an hour they upped it to £80 for fuel to get home i drove at 56mph all way home . now i have 3 cards and cash always .

Lets go back to CB radio's in vehicles.

Why did they bring in contactless cards? Where's the security?

Thank you Geoff for highlighting and bringing such important conversation and information to your audience!! Amazing work as per

banks, police, supermarkets, same business

Considering I've just obliterated my Google Pixel after tripping over ive been looking at my box of old handsets for ages, i so badly want to experiment with ancient mobiles in the modern age

Keep with 3 g

As a regular visitor to Spain, I have noticed that it has markedly superior mobile coverage - from the Madrid Metro to the mountainous areas in the north. We're miles behind.

I’ve lived in my house in the middle of a city for nearly 30years and the mobile signal has always been good, except for the last few years or so. It is now so bad i regularly have to walk to a window or go outside or go upstairs when the person at the other end can’t hear me. [it’s weird though because sometimes it fine, but then the next day you are back to walking around the house trying get find a better signal]

Hello Geoff, Someone elsa may have already said this, but I don't have time to go look. I'm not an RF engineer but I've more than a passing interest and bit of knowledge on the subject. If you want to cram more data accross the airwaves, generally speaking, you're going to use a higher carrier frequency. Those higher frequencies do not have as much "punch" though. They're more readily attenuated by environmental factors, they don't carry as far. Hence the need for base stations that are much closer together. Also, radio waves are generally polarised, they travel vertically and or horizontally (there's more to it than that) and when you're trying to eek out the best perfornance, the orientation of the phone itself becomes more critical. More data means faster processors, more power, less battery life. Gold is an excellent conductor. It's factor in greater RF efficiency I'm not sure about. Someone else can speak to that. The radio spectrum is getting more and more crowded, it's efficient use is therefor of considerable importance.

Was told 3g being switched off at the end of the year. Was told 3g phone 📱 was a waste of money!!!!!!

Mobile phone masts were originally only given temporary planning as all phones were supposed to eventually get signals from satellite. However, this all changed when governments were involved in selling aerial space. Several of my customers sold mast space to mobile phone companies on lease. Also in certain places there is so much military electronics monitoring systems and these upset signals but these are only for small distances.

Great Video Geoff

Yes the phone signals are bad and they want to turn off the analogue phone. I had video call recently both of us on actual WiFi and still the signal kept breaking up.

Hey Geoff, the bum bots are in again, two of them have the same profile picture 🤣🤣

The signal is generally awful. The phone networks have got an effing cheek putting up the prices every year under the guise of RPI plus 4%. You pay more and more every year but seemingly get less and less and sh*t customer service

Love the vids Geoff 👍 I liked it a lot in the 90s - If you were avoiding people, you could tell your family to tell them you went out. 😆 The phones are trackers and they listen to everything and everywhere we go to harrass us with adverts at the bare minimum (the least sinister conspiracy) Have you seen that conspiracy about the iphones taking photos of your face without you knowing? That emergency app was a load of bollocks too. I'd love to be able to transform into a 🐦 and listen in to these meetings that go on behind our backs 😞

As I’ve said before the phone signal in Finland is so good. Even in the far North here I get 5G and 4G in remote areas. Speeds are very fast and phone calls rarely ever drop out along roads.

Got a clear picture there Geoff. Very crisp.

When you started talking about old favourite phones, I thought.. "I miss my old Star Tac" then a minute later, you guys both bring up the Star Tac! And I had an OG Razor 1st gen. Good times back when they were still amazing things to have, not links in the chains of our quiet enslavement like today.

Another brilliantly informative video. ❤ But I won't change to an iPhone. Android seems to have less issues with communication (even when I'm in the Uk) and all services are free.

I live in Ombersley. I have had sod all service for the last 4 days.

Nokia 8110 & i still have 3 + the data kit or the Nokia communicator's thay could even send a fax directly from the phone not through a 3 party & play games download programmes like the rubbish alleged smart phones. These are the best phones

I had an Ericsson with a rubber shark fin ariel on top and rubber gaskets all round so you didn't get muck in the charging hole and it was solid and heavy and reliable and I don't think it had snake but you could make your own ringtones on it and I loved it. But then I got talked into joining the new, wonderful 3 network and they flogged me an NEC videophone and I could only send really grainy photos to one bloke that I knew, usually when we were in the same pub anyway. But I loved that Ericsson

Richard is right when he mentions the focus is on data, I find calling is defiantly less reliable but data streaming on the move is pretty good. Just done 1000 miles fro UK to south of France and streamed UK radio pretty much all the way...

What I'm suspicious of is: Why does my Canon Printer App insist that I have high resolution location switched on, before permitting me to pass a document to using it to my printer 🤔 Both me and the printer are both on the same WiFi ( in fact I can physically touch the printer ) Odd. Odd .odd 🤔

Full 3G signal cant seem to handle internet data anymore from my experience, it’s 4g minimum or 5g now. Am unsure of what’s going on in the background but I imagine they are trying to get rid of the 3G networks as quickly as possible now.

Hi great and interesting video, 5g my 4g where I am in Kent on 3 is not that great , that’s why I got 02 phone as well as 4g on a cheaper contract as back up, we always had better service when we had phone in a cradle with external car aerial. And yes old Nokia phones were great . Regards mark

Because the service area for each 5G phone cell mast is so much smaller they need many more to give the same coverage, using AI and servers it is so much easier to locate people of interest. Also, it is easier for them to accommodate more users at the higher frequencies.

I live in a small seaside town and there is no 5G anywhere and when its busy my data speed drops from 10meg to 1meg. I have a tablet which I only use for steaming it has no social media apps of any sort and the battery last for days which shows how power hungry they are

I phone owners when your battery starts to fail and the phone just gets slower. It is apple doing it to make you buy the newer model.

Is it UK infrastructure? What is the signal situation in other countries?

When my wife asks what did you blokes talk about all night? Errmmm phones. 😂

Good man Geoff, we all need to back away from digital dominance. Cash is king. Motorola razr was my very very fave

Satellites 😅😂. Sateloons 🎈 more like 😉

That signal issue you both experienced with your phone call at the 16:12 mark in the video, were it went all weird sounding, seems to me exactly like the signal being attenuated - a momentary weaking of the signal strength leading to a reduction in the signal quality, which reduces data throughput, means dropped data packs and transmission errors. The odd noise effects are also reminiscient of signal distortion and reflections, leading to the data packets arriving out of sequence. Likely this is caused by something interrupting the signal between the mast and your device. Birds, plane, large vehicles, trees blowing the wind etc. And also atmospheric phenomenon.

I loved my Nokia 8210 - wish I could go back to that!!

Trying to silence us

Mobiles now are really terrible.

I couldn't get hold of an Apple 14 and was told it was due to manufacturing issues in China due to Covid and lockdowns. Surprised that Brexit wasn't dragged into it as well.😆

Tesco 4G never had a problem with my signal.👍 P.s. best phone ever, Nokia 3010 THE END😁

This was very, very amusing this morning listening to Naga Munchetty trying to communictae with a multitude of journalists across the country following the party battle buses and every single person she was trying to communicate with was having terrible issues with their connections. Yoy couldn't make it up! The part of the show with heavy issues was around 12.10pm onwards where there was silence on many ocassions and she thought she was being pranked it was so bad.

I have a 2G phone in my hand and it's working fine! Portugal

Got your full Murdoch script right there Geoff!

O2 keep saying they’re doing work to improve the network but data doesn’t work a lot of the time and it’s often 3G

‘Gold is the best way of getting signal’ … 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I think this is a problem in England. I live in Norway, and I have no problems use my tlf. even in my summerhouse in the middle of nowhere 800m over sealevel with only sunpanels, batteries and a little petrol generator. I have 5g everywhere here. Only 4g in the summerhouse, but it works all the time. (PS: I love your beautiul Volvo!!) 🙂

Im in Taiwan and the signal is amazing here... 4g even works on the underground trains. I pay 300NTD a month, about £7.50 for unlimited data. I use Samsung A21s phone.

Listening to your conversation on the diffrences in 3G and 5G - here's the TL:DR of it. 3G has good coverage and range and lower data rates - 5G is the oppostite - and the reason is the frequency of the carrier wave used. Higher band frequencies of 5G (ie: 16 - 24GHz ) are more suceptible to interference by things like trees than 3G frequencies were. And, the shear increase in the number of devices connecting to the network means more people sharing the bandwidth.

Geoff A I scares me all this giving computers the ability to think for themselves really is Skynet from Terminator

The actual reason for the difefrence is power... Think audio, Bass travels further than treble, Why does bass travel further than treble? Because low-frequency tones have larger wavelengths, they penetrate different materials better than high-frequency ones. That's why you hear the bass from your neighbour's speakers but not the treble. 5G is a higher frequency and travels less distance, simple physics. 5G will make no difefrence to the emergency services, they use a custom mesh network called Tetra...

10,000 5G masts in Wuhan in 2019? Just a coincidence 😉

5G is much shorter wave but faster speeds. Hence, taking out 3G means the signal isn't reaching as far.

Had to end a call yesterday it was that bad.

5310, 8310 they were the best, small radio battery last ages and easy to change and super easy to repair

I have kept my old android and that still has the options for 2G !! That gives me a signal anywhere for voice and SMS, Ok no internet services but then there is public Wi-Fi for that :-)

My problems with phones are: 1) Too much change, designed rapid obsolescence resulting in electric landfill and disposable attitudes 2) The ASSUMPTION that every person has a smartphone gatekeeping people from normal everyday activities like buying parking.

I used to love listening to spotify on my phone while travelling, the signal used to be fine and slowly it has got worse and worse. I upgraded (ha ha) to a 5G phone hoping this would remedy the situation, it hasn't!

The Halcyon days of the carphone, who can forget the motorola, and the analogue...

we've given up simple phones and replaced them with Digital ID devices...

I have to rely on wifi calling on a £1500 phone.