In reply to a post by adamtemp:

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.

that is like a life time , 2 to 3 years , as its looking that Everything Every Where are going to have a 4G networked rolled out even before Vodafone and O2 have managed to get there 3G network up in large parts of the country .

O2 and Vodafone are getting a god almighty kicking in the Data coverage arena and anybody with a smart phone that dose not just spend there time in built up areas would do well to move to Everything Every Where .

Im sorry but O2 and Vodafone only have them self's to blame as trends in mobile phone usage has clearly shown people using there data connection more and more , with some apps needing a data connection to work .
This is not something new or just happening and i do honestly believe there lack of investment in there networks is going to cost them dear .

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In reply to a post by adamtemp:

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.

that is like a life time , 2 to 3 years , as its looking that Everything Every Where are going to have a 4G networked rolled out even before Vodafone and O2 have managed to get there 3G network up in large parts of the country .

O2 and Vodafone are getting a god almighty kicking in the Data coverage arena and anybody with a smart phone that dose not just spend there time in built up areas would do well to move to Everything Every Where .

Im sorry but O2 and Vodafone only have them self's to blame as trends in mobile phone usage has clearly shown people using there data connection more and more , with some apps needing a data connection to work .
This is not something new or just happening and i do honestly believe there lack of investment in there networks is going to cost them dear .

I quite agree, been a Cellnet/O2 customer for years and I'm quite shocked in the lack of investment in their 3G network. 3G coverage in the Stamford/Rutland area is almost non existant. 1 3G900 cell site by the A1 nr Tinwell, no 3G2100 whatsoever. With Burghley Horse Trials on at the moment, the network is overloaded and the GPRS data network keeps falling over which equals no data at all!

My new T-Mobile SIM arrived today...happy days

in Warrington they seem quite active in placing 3g and 3g900 Pole masts up on the side of roads
norm config of 3x or 4x or some times rare daddy pole masts (4-8x mast that's taller then normal masts that are higher then buildings its next to) pole mast inside the top of the pole less bitchy people of they cant see the masts inside them (most just think tv booster or nothing at all unless they see the O2 sticker on the green Cab next to the pole, some look like wooden BT poles as well)

not that i have much 3g coverage issues with o2 around there any way with my giffgaff sim

a lot of coverage issues be solved if they did not build masts that are no higher then an House, but i guess planning permission gets rejected a lot for taller ones

can you get mini cells for O2 (is it just an mast on the roof and an booster for inside {grey area legal wises})

We have lots like this. Always o2 and always in a good location I find.
http://i50.tinypic.com/2rw8500.jpg

In the area I live vodafone, orange, 3 and o2 all share 1 mast. This is around 2 streets away at the top of a hill...

3 and T-mobile then have another mast around 2 streets away (in the opposite direction).
This basically leaves me in a zone of overlap between the 2 masts but I actually basically get no service. I can only assume they're trying to minimize overlap between the 2 masts.

I work at the bottom of a hill where only o2 and orange get service but orange is marginal.

Each to their own. Where I live I often get the train into central london which takes about 20 - 30 mins. I often listen to the radio during this journey via my iPhone's app which uses the 3g. It drops out 2 or 3 times for about 0.5 seconds during the journey but never fully cuts out. I could never do this before on network 3.

This being said in Sheffield where I sometimes head I get GPRS and no 3g where I go.

With o2 I very often find that when it reports edge or gprs, just flicking 3g off and on gets me full 3g signal. It sometimes seems to stick to the slower signal.

I think anybody that knows anything about network data coverage ( i have seen coverage maps now ) knows 3 3G network is the weakest closely followed by O2 and Vodafone with a clear leader that is Every Thing Everywhere .

My working area stretches from Somerset to Kent and up to Hertfordshire , Oxfordshire , so i travel allot and not always on main commuter routs or in built up areas .

So when somebody says it works fine at my house and my work , this could be true of any of the networks including the worst but it does not work fine at my work , as my work is the whole of the Southeast and as soon as i come out of a built up area there is no Data coverage and Google maps needs data so i end up getting lost , so the Giff Gaff sim ended up in the bin .

don't get me wrong O2 network for making and receiving calls and texts is outstanding , its just i need more from my phone than just that . times are a changing as are people expectations , i will return in a couple of years to see if the partnership between O2 and Vodafone has come to anything .

for now thou neither are a realistic option for my self , even thou i must confess to not trying Vodafone network , its better the devil i know .

I agree here.
Where I need it I get 3g e.g. at home and work... Sometimes driving around I get 2g or Edge.

For me even on 2g my maps etc all work though? Perhaps data only works on gifgaf on 3g? On 3 I didn't get data when it switched to orange 2g so perhaps it's similar...

With 3 I spent plenty of time where I had no service. When I had service it was normally 3g

With o2 I always have service. Sometimes it's 3g sometimes it's 2g but it's almost never 'no service' and barely ever drops below 2 bars from full.
To me this in an improvement over 3 as people can nearly always reach me now.

I do agree that everything everywhere have the best 3g coverage. I would have chose them but they were £6 a month more expensive and £49 for my phone. o2 offered me free phone and cheaper....

It'll be interesting to see how the vodafone / o2 share works out. I'm not overly bothered about 4g right now as I'm happy on 3g. I nearly always get over 5Mbps which is plenty for mobile. I've got a iphone 4s for around 19 months anyway so that's not LTE compatible.

In reply to a post by orozz:

I quite agree, been a Cellnet/O2 customer for years and I'm quite shocked in the lack of investment in their 3G network. 3G coverage in the Stamford/Rutland area is almost non existant. 1 3G900 cell site by the A1 nr Tinwell, no 3G2100 whatsoever. With Burghley Horse Trials on at the moment, the network is overloaded and the GPRS data network keeps falling over which equals no data at all!

My new T-Mobile SIM arrived today...happy days

Bucking the trend, we've suddenly been switched from GPRS to 3G - so either an upgrade or (more likely) the Vodafone sharing agreement is starting to happen.. Good for us either way

where about you find that offer and how much is?
is monthly rolling contract?

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