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Nottingham is one of the best cities in the country for mobile phone performance, according to latest data.

RootMetrics, a company which monitors mobile phone performance across the world, has released its bi-annual report on the top 16 metropolitan areas - and it's good reading for Nottingham folk.

The city is only bettered by Leicester for overall performance, which takes into account reliability, speed, data, calls and texts, moving up from 12th in the table six months ago.

Nottingham is top for reliability, and third for calls and texts, which are measured by testing how reliable calls are and how quickly mobile phone users can send and receive texts.

Paul Moss, a director at RootMetrics, said the introduction of VoLTE (Voice over Long Term Evolution), a standard for voice communications, being introduced by EE has made a huge difference in Nottingham.

It transfers the voice over the phone line by using the 4G network to improve reliability and quality.

He said: "We've travelled 84,000km testing the networks in the 16 main urban areas of the country to get this data.

"EE rolled out VoLTE around 12 months ago and, as with all big introductions, there are often some teething problems which would have had an effect on the quality of calls in the area.

"These latest figures suggest that those problems have been fixed now which means calls are a lot better and clearer.

"The three main points for Nottingham to take from this set of data is that the 4G network in the city has improved, call performance has improved dramatically, and EE's introduction of VoLTE has helped too."

Councillor Sam Webster, portfolio holder for business, education and skills at Nottingham City Council, said they have been working with providers to improve call quality in the city.

He said: “Nottingham City Council has worked with providers in telecoms and broadband to improve coverage in the city.

"High speed broadband, phone coverage and wi-fi are important to residents and businesses and seen as an essential service.

“We also need to look to the future and be improving basic telecoms infrastructure to deliver ultrafast broadband (1 Gigabit per second) and 5G telephony.

"Nottingham is working with providers, Government and universities to deliver the next developments in digital connectivity which is becoming more important to business to help improve their productivity."

Brian Skilling, 53, retired, from 11 Victoria Centre, was in Scotland the other day and he certainly felt the difference in phone performance there compared to Nottingham.

He said: “I think it is a lot better. I was in Scotland the other day and up there it was really bad.”

Cayleb Reed, 26, a tattooist from Melbourne in Australia who is visiting the area, said he has found his experiences of phone performance in Nottingham very good.

He said: “Although I have mostly been using Wi-FI while at the hotel, I have made no calls but the texting has been pretty good and I have no complaints there.”

Clare Jacobs, 47, a Science Technician from Eye in Suffolk, believes there is a significant difference in mobile performance in Nottingham compared to where she lives.

She said: “We haven’t had any problems; compared to back home this is great because we are in a black hole at home.

“If you don’t think it is very quick, it is alright up here.”

Debbie Phipps, 63, a finance broker from Wilford, has also had no problems with her mobile phone performance.

She said: “There has been no problems, I text quite a bit and it is always fine; I think we have more trouble with the broadband at home sometimes.”

Christopher Post, 18, a student at Nottingham Trent University, said: “My mobile phone performance is always fine, messages are all fine.

“Everywhere I go I have got connection and signal and I think it is great in Nottingham.”