Bad Reception

Hootsmon

Moved house recently and there are blockages in them thar hills.....wife's iphone 11 is often no worky and i expect due to all those hills

Are we stuck with that or are there fixes like boosters an' stuff?

Jimbro66

A ladder?

Funkfingers

You be wantin' one of them 5G masts in your back garden. The downside is that the rustics could turn hostile, beating a path to your door, waving their pitchforks and flaming torches.

ICBM

It will be a network coverage issue, not the phone.

One of the joys of our beloved country... the rugged landscape which keeps intruders at bay, and their mobile phone signals too.

Blaendulais

Wifi calling thats what sorts me at home

wibble

If it's reception in the house then just turn on wifi calling

strtdv

Large excavator/few sticks of dynamite?

Musicwolf

A couple of years ago, when my son upgraded his iPhone, we gave the old one to my octogenarian mother who was made up with it (she’d been wanting one for a while, as her friend had one, but there was no way that my Dad would buy it even though he can afford it).  They live in Cheshire with not a hill in sight.

My son had no problems with reception but, to date, we have never once been able to get through to her on it once.

I’ve no idea whether the reception will be any better once she turns the bloody thing on.

more

I don't have a smartphone, so my knowledge of phones is somewhat primitive. I  have a phone locked to Orange, it uses the  EE  network. I moved not that long ago and the phone  hardly worked. I bought another one from a car boot sale and put a free Giffgaff sim card in it. Gifffaff use the O2 network . Problems cured. Could it be that simple as changing your network?

boogieman

Same issue at our place, we’re in a dead spot. Go into settings- mobile data and then turn on wifi calling. Should work without problems but it does seem to depend on your provider. My phone is on Virgin and worked straight away, wife’s is on Vodafone and she needed to get it set up first via their website. 

drofluf

If you put your postcode in this site https://www.signalchecker.co.uk/ it will tell you what reception you can except with each provider