{"id":68,"date":"2015-08-13T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T11:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-09-21T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T11:07:30","slug":"ofcom-mobile-coverage-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/13\/ofcom-mobile-coverage-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"OFCOM Mobile Coverage Checker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some great news coming out of Ofcom today as they launch their own mobile coverage checker using an interactive map, perfect so that you and your customers can discover the quality of 3G &amp; 4G signal strength in areas across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s able to zoom in to areas of the map to specific locations, and names or postcodes can be searched to check down to 100 square metres for each of the mobile networks.<\/p>\n<p>There is a ranking colour coded system meaning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Green<\/strong><\/span> showing the highest likelihood of coverage<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Amber<\/strong><\/span> being variable<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Red<\/strong><\/span> showing least likelihood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their Chief Technology Officer Steve Unger is quoted as saying in Mobile News \u201cWe believe our map is the most comprehensive tool available to consumers and businesses to check mobile coverage\u201d and I can\u2019t disagree with him because when I check my own networks coverage checker it suggests I have reliable indoor 4G, whereas the Ofcom one is accurate displaying none at all! J<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s running a little on the slow side so perseverance is needed, but a great bookmarking tool regardless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some great news coming out of Ofcom today as they launch their own mobile coverage checker using an interactive map, perfect so that you and your customers can discover the quality of 3G &amp; 4G signal strength in areas across the UK. It\u2019s able to zoom in to areas of the map to specific locations,<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/13\/ofcom-mobile-coverage-checker\/\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[53,52],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","tag-ofcom","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukhangoutcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}