gr8signal - help to measure SA's mobile networks

[jes]

gr8signal - help to measure SA's mobile networks

An independent, crowdsourced measure of South Africa’s mobile network coverage

[ChilliPepper]

Best line:

"and MyBroadband, a company that specialises in awesome"

10 points

[system32]

Great (gr8) idea and application.

An independent view of network coverage in SA.

Recommend all (Android) users install the app.
Not sure what happens if you don't have wifi to upload - enable Turbo Mode?

[Mr.CookieMonster]

A great app, finally we can see what the real coverage is like.

[calypso]

Nice app, but what benefit does it have over something like opensignalmaps?

[SAdata]

Heccers! I dig it

[Grubscrew]

I like it, would be interesting to see what the networks will say about the constant red areas

[dawbomb]

It's going to be interesting to see how much of the country is going to be red when the map gets updated next - I imagine that the number of people with the app installed has more than doubled today

Prediction: what's shown on gr8signal is going to differ from the "official" operator-supplied signal maps quite substantially!

[Pseudonym]

I like the idea, but "gr8signal"? Really? Are we preteens?

[Roadrunner]

I like the idea, but "gr8signal"? Really? Are we preteens?

Even adults can be cool, man.

Several professional companies are using Mxit language. One example being:

http://www.integr8group.com/

[r00igev@@r]

Lekker app!

[Jan]

Not sure what happens if you don't have wifi to upload - enable Turbo Mode?

You can enable uploading over 3G. Turbo mode just logs more often.

Even adults can be cool, man.

Several professional companies are using Mxit language. One example being:

http://www.integr8group.com/

Also: the .com was available :P

[gr8signal]

Hi Calypso

For one the application is focused only on South Africa so hopefully we'll give a better view on whats going specifically for our country.

Also with registration you will be able to download the data you logged. That way you can also get more information from it. ( We should be enabling all the accounts at the latest by tomorrow hopefully latter today.)

[gr8signal]

Great (gr8) idea and application.

An independent view of network coverage in SA.

Recommend all (Android) users install the app.
Not sure what happens if you don't have wifi to upload - enable Turbo Mode?

The application can upload over 3G if you choose to. By default it will only try over wifi though.

[gr8signal]

I like the idea, but "gr8signal"? Really? Are we preteens?

Hi Pseudonym

http://www.greatsignal.co.za/ Will also work. It was more to have something that would work for a .com as Jan mentioned. As were focusing on South Africa http://gr8signal.co.za is the one were focusing on.

Though we wanted to cover all the common URLs that people type in.