Broadside
Guru
- Location
- Fleet, Hants
The usual targets are the towns and cities of 100k+ population. If you want the best services then move to one of those places!
Dear Vodafone....
- Thread starter Rezillo
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Cycling Dan
Cycle Crazy
Indeed, live out in the countryside don't be expecting the best from most networks especially indoor coverage.... Unlike what some hair products say your not worth it
Anything further than Hursley and the wheel is still big news
0lonerider
Veteran
- Location
- tyneside
iv areal 30mtrs from me door and vodafone was pants so tryed 02 ! its also hit n miss, and i live in one of the highest places inc gateshead?me gps says im in wallsend to most of the time im at home lol
Cycling Dan
Cycle Crazy
Gateshead a werid one. Very hit and miss place
Broadside
Guru
- Location
- Fleet, Hants
As with anything it is built around a business case; if there are enough people to repay the costs of installing the service then it will go in. The trouble is none of us like seeing roads and fields dug up to install a new cable and it is extremely costly to do it. The upshot is that consumers in rural areas suffer. Some of the initial benefits of 4G were that handsets that had a signal would propagate that signal out to areas that were not covered by the mast (developed with places like Africa in mind), sadly that utopian design ideology has not carried through to the service that is now being deployed.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
My mum swears by Orange in Ryton
Broadside
Guru
- Location
- Fleet, Hants
Weird though it sounds you might actually be too close! The antennas will be optimised to provide maximum coverage and 30 metres in the shadow of the mast might miss the reception. Sadly there's not a lot you can do about that, unless you are handy with a spanner and can tilt the antenna yourself.
Cycling Dan
Cycle Crazy
Slight movement is sure to nark someone off
Broadside
Guru
- Location
- Fleet, Hants
Yes, most likely the people in the rural areas that the mast is covering!!
Cycling Dan
Cycle Crazy
Not if the mast is in gateshead
0lonerider
Veteran
- Location
- tyneside
02 said i couldbe to close too.
most new phones wont work at all,i use a ye oldy samsung 5620 to get on here lol
most new phones wont work at all,i use a ye oldy samsung 5620 to get on here lol
Peteaud
Veteran
- Location
- South Somerset
Here in deepest south Somerset, Tosco works pretty well.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
I'm currently with EE for my phone and Three for my iPad. Although EE shows 4G far more often than Three, there's little difference in actual speed most of the time. I can watch netflix on either.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
I'm off up north soon and preparing to leave my main phone and ipad at home. At my dad's house, I can't make a phone call indoors let alone receive email. And it's the same at my second favourite pub up there, want a taxi and you have to walk to the bottom of the car park (and this is the Pennines so it's raining) to get a signal.
However, every cloud has a silver lining and so when I leave work saying "Sorry but I'm not contactable" and they say "Ok we'll only call you if it's urgent" I get to say "No really. I'm not contactable."
However, every cloud has a silver lining and so when I leave work saying "Sorry but I'm not contactable" and they say "Ok we'll only call you if it's urgent" I get to say "No really. I'm not contactable."
