mobile cell overloaded on O2, how best to get it fixed?

I'm obliged. For how much longer I wonder?

 

There is an interesting app for Android called Antennas by Michael
Polymenakos (MPOLY) which shows a map displaying the mast you're
connecting to with some vaguely useful connection info which you can log.

 

Until LTE rolls out and all cellular networks go full IP.

I can't see anyone doing it on existing 2G/3G networks since they've
already sunk the money in the circuit switched core and the additional
spend probably wouldn't pay for itself in core network efficiencies.
Probably. Not my area anyway.

 

Why?

I don't see the use for the app.

 

Not likely in the short term. Too many telcos have invested in their
current networks to give them up like that. You'll see more 3G-
Handover systems coming into play whereby you'll either use the
standard GSM/3G network and when you come in range of a telco hotspot,
you'll go wifi. Only then, when their networks are overloaded.

In the long term, possibly

 

Er... yes. When LTE rolls out.

 

"Apps" don't needto have a use - being 'pretty cool' seems to be
enough to appeal to the techno geeks.

 

Ah. Busted.

You of course have this one nailed. And in my case it is decades.
Well almost two in cellular.

Gulp.