3 and T-Mobile have the same mast spacing and are the closest together of all the UK networks. By virtue of the fact they have more than anyone else, they also overlap more than anyone else.

O2 scored the highest average speed of all 3G networks across the country in OFCOM's one and only national study to date.

Edited by qasdfdsaq (Mon 21-May-12 18:46:26)

compared to Orange, t-mobile has less coverage then orange (even t-mobile coverage map that shows orange and t-mobile side by side agrees with me) not that it matters now as Orange and t-mobile share masts so at my house all my t-mobile phones prefer orange as 3 and t-mobile are sharing the same mast that is just in range of my house

the amount of O2 Pole masts i drive past is a lot

O2 in general I found have best overall coverage as long as your not on or close to an motorway, 2g coverage seems the best and on top of that O2 seem to be the Only network Bothering to build more masts to fill in dead spots (Pole masts are popping up all around where i am in Warrington the mast is inside the top of the pole so most do not even know what they are so less resistant's from locals)

Do you happen to know if GiffGaff SIM's can use O2's new 3G on 900Mhz?

I'd probably change back to an O2 network MVNO once my three contract ends. Would be nice to be able to use my phone inside, lol.

if there is 3g900 coverage where you are you be able to use it and your phone must support 3g900 as well

If Vodafone iron out their 3G bugs their 900Mhz network may end up being better than O2's.

hmm they changed it to TrafficSense (its still traffic management thought renaming it does not change that o yer they also now Dropped it from 256KBps to 100KBps (100KB/s)

but at least it only affects p2p (if I am reading it correctly)

http://support.three.co.uk/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBISAPI.DLL...
http://support.three.co.uk/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBISAPI.DLL...
below is the New PDF file (the old one in my first post still works at the moment with the old traffic management )
http://support.three.co.uk/mobiledocs/Support/Signal...

they Still have not stated what is the abuse limit is

maybe Three have now Implemented DPI to try to prevent tethering on PAYG (VPN bypass ) as before it only was blocked if the phone was Three Branded

Edited by leexgx (Thu 24-May-12 22:40:05)

problem with Vodafone is i cant seem to see an good deal with Vodafone every thing seems expensive with them (they have the best 2g coverage thought as they norm work anywhere in the UK why most GPS track systems use them)

Got a dongle with 15GB limit, last 2 months managed 4 GB & 1.6 GB due to Emitter & contention problems. Just getting a connection for more than 3 minutes is a bonus, only consolation is I got 2 months refund, for phone & dongle contracts.

Edited by bigluap (Sat 09-Jun-12 17:48:37)