In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Also when it connects to orange you cannot use any data

I've never seen that.. My mum lives where there is no 3G service and "Three" works just fine.

Matt

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In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Also when it connects to orange you cannot use any data

I've never seen that.. My mum lives where there is no 3G service and "Three" works just fine.

Matt

I saw it lots.

Perhaps it's location dependant but whenever I got edge or GPRS signal on an iPhone 4 data didn't work. I had the iPhone swapped 3 times over the two years and all of them did the same.

Data only worked on 3G networks.

& it wasn't that it was slow, an error would literally come up something like "safari could not open the page because it couldnt connect to the internet"

A good example is there were many times when I had GPRS signal and my google maps just wouldn't work. I'd continue driving to get 3G before the maps would work. Again it wasnt slow it just flat out refused to work.

and there is my main gripe , no data connection no Google maps no Ebay updates no nothing and i have become very dependent on my data connection and being honest , expect it as i have become use to having rather than not having .

I know i should of looked at O2 coverage maps and now i have im stunned at how bad there network is , buy cheap buy twice .

in the process of porting my number to T-mobile as i cant afford to be with out a data connection for the majority of my working day .

this has got to be costing O2 network customers , i guess that's +1 then .

Edit : this post was made from my new T-Mobile sim as i have coverage where i am today and the O2 sim has no coverage .

Edited by deleted (Mon 16-Jul-12 10:35:18)

I live in the south and the only reason I use O2 is because the office I work in gets no network coverage at all (some sort of faraday cage) but as we use O2 corporately we have our own micro cell in the building. So, at work it is the only provider you can get coverage on - but I hardly ever get 3G and a lot of areas I don't even get Edge.

I have nearly always been able to get a signal and been able to make and receive phone calls and texts , there is no problem with that and O2 network but i have moved on from just using my mobile for making calls but it seems O2 network has not moved on .

I have been using my phone to find my jobs for a good few years now and that's been the biggest problem for me , i have become dependent on Google maps and have not enjoyed relearning the art of map reading .

In reply to a post by Aaron_01:

Great HSDPA signal in my area I moved to where T-Mobile has none, but trips from Hailsham to East Grinstead or London I barely get any G that works, and never H.

I live on that London to Eastbourne road and am almost definitely living right bang slap in the middle of that massive data coverage black hole , nearest 3G signal is Uckfield one way and East Grinstead the other .

I can live with that though as i have internet at home , what i cant live with thou is the huge holes in there network when im out and about .

Gift gaff here in the north east dh4 area great, it all depends on signal to be honest.

I was on Vodafone for many years and took their decent 3G coverage for granted, I then switched to an iPhone a few years ago and O2 were the best deal or only deal at the time (cant recall which) and I have been reminded for the last few years just how bad O2 data is.

Even when you are in an area that they have covered with 3G it feels like they are routing everyone on their network down an old US Robotics 14,400 modem, just unbelievably slow most of the time.

I swapped my iPad over to a Vodafone Sim for 3G and its an amazing difference when comparing the two, Vodafone is always better as and as soon as my current iPhone contract is up I will be ditching O2 as a network provider.

Other thing that looked promising on O2 was their free extensive free WiFi coverage but TBH that is quite often a PIA to get working properly, its very easy to get blocked which then means you have to call them to get your phone unblocked.

I have to agree that o2s data coverage is not amazing. I switched over from 3 where I was used to 3g.

Thing is o2 gets me signal pretty much everywhere and almost always full bars. I prefer this to constantly having no service like I did with 3.

I have 3g where I need it to be honest though.

From what I gather everything everywhere (orange + tmobile) now have the best overall 3g coverage. That being said o2 was the cheapest deal and I get unlimited everything for a reasonable price. My data is unlimited but once I go over 1gb it's slowed down a fair bit.

As for the data feeling slow I've never experienced this.

Vodafone and o2 now have a deal to share infrastructure so it wouldn't surprise me if the coverage changes in the future. Whether good or bad only time will tell. Apparently thousands of current masts are going to be pulled down due to them being not needed once they share infrastructure.

Ultimately o2 and Vodafone should end up with similar coverage

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/voda...

Edited by ukhardy07 (Thu 16-Aug-12 04:00:14)

as giffgaff uses o2 in the next 2-3 years you should see 3g900 on all o2 2g 900 masts souce o2 forums in this thread http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Welcome-News/Review-and... (pster abs an o2 employee) along with a very high 4g coverage in 2015 in another thread.

This is all due to the agreement with vodafone.