T-Mobile reception?

Hi

I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is less
reliable than other mobile companies.

Do they really vary so much?

Is T-Mobile that bad?

Thanks for your feedback.

Ian

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Ian R wrote:
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Who told you that, someone from Orange?
No complaints about T-Mobile here.
All networks have blackspots.
You can check coverage where you mostly intend to use your phone here:

> http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/c...reetcheck_link









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Ian R <[email protected]> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

> Hi
>
> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception
> is less reliable than other mobile companies.
>
> Do they really vary so much?
>
> Is T-Mobile that bad?
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Ian

Like another post in this thread says, all networks have black-spots, and I
did read once that T-Mobile had slightly less coverage (not reliability)
than some of the other networks, but that was a couple of years ago, so
things have probably improved since then.
I'm with Virgin Mobile (who use the T-Mobile network) and I very rarely have
any problems with reception.

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Ian R wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is less
> reliable than other mobile companies.
>
> Do they really vary so much?
>
> Is T-Mobile that bad?
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Ian

I get better reception on T-Mobile than I did on Orange, plus I've not
had a single case where I couldn't make a call because the cell was
busy, or a call gets dropped mid-call.

Plus I get 3G without having to purchase a 3G device from Orange, HSDPA
and 1GB data addon for £7.50pm...

D

Ian R wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is less
> reliable than other mobile companies.
>
> Do they really vary so much?
>
> Is T-Mobile that bad?
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Ian
>
>

The only problem I have found is that the signal attenuates greatly when
I enter the house - max standing outside a window, 1 or 2 of 5 inside
the same window (and no signal next to this computer :-) ).

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> "Ian R" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is
> less reliable than other mobile companies.
>
> Do they really vary so much?
>
> Is T-Mobile that bad?

In my experiance.... YES they are! Just got shot of them after 18 month
contract. Great prices etc but coverage was poor round here.

B

"Barney" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> "Ian R" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
>> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is
>> less reliable than other mobile companies.
>>
>> Do they really vary so much?
>>
>> Is T-Mobile that bad?

T-Mobile have never invested enough in their 2G network since acquiring it
from One to One many years ago. As their network started it's life within
the M25 and gradually expanded outwards in the mid nineties, they never
built enough cell sites in the early days in areas they wanted to
concentrate on outside of London.

Certain outlying places suffer in the North of England on T-Mobile and if
you want to visit the highlands of Scotland then forget it! For me
personally, the test of a phone network's coverage isn't stood in a street
in Leeds or driving down the M6 but in places more remote like the Lake
District and mid Wales, places by now you expect a phone to work!

I'd never go with T-Mob as I know reliability would suffer in outlying areas
I travel to, Orange is much better but was the reason I sacked off my Three
contract when they switched from O2 to Orange as the coverage degraded
somewhat!

Personally go for Vodafone or O2 if you want reliable good coverage,
otherwise if in a large city where you live and work then any of the
networks is a good option.

"PeeGee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Ian R wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
>> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is
>> less reliable than other mobile companies.
>>
>> Do they really vary so much?
>>
>> Is T-Mobile that bad?
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback.
>>
>> Ian
>
> The only problem I have found is that the signal attenuates greatly when I
> enter the house - max standing outside a window, 1 or 2 of 5 inside the
> same window (and no signal next to this computer :-) ).
>
> PeeGee
> --
> The reply address is a spam trap. All mail is reported as spam.
> "Nothing should be able to load itself onto a computer without the
> knowledge or consent of the computer user. Software should also be able to
> be removed from a computer easily."
> Peter Cullen, Microsoft Chief Privacy Strategist (Computing 18 Aug 05)

The same thing happens to me. At the back of the house, 1 bar, or on
occassions no signal. Move to the front of the house, and get a full
signal. On occassions I can be sitting down, and get no signal...hold the
phone in the air for a few seconds, and get a full signal.

COntract finished at the end of Jan, will be moving to a different network,
probably Vodafone.

xpuser wrote:
>
> "PeeGee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Ian R wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
>>> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception
>>> is less reliable than other mobile companies.
>>>
>>> Do they really vary so much?
>>>
>>> Is T-Mobile that bad?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your feedback.
>>>
>>> Ian
>>
>> The only problem I have found is that the signal attenuates greatly
>> when I enter the house - max standing outside a window, 1 or 2 of 5
>> inside the same window (and no signal next to this computer :-) ).
>>
>> PeeGee
>
> The same thing happens to me. At the back of the house, 1 bar, or on
> occassions no signal. Move to the front of the house, and get a full
> signal. On occassions I can be sitting down, and get no signal...hold
> the phone in the air for a few seconds, and get a full signal.
>
> COntract finished at the end of Jan, will be moving to a different
> network, probably Vodafone.

I'm with Dave on this, especially with PAYG :-) I have a land line for
calls to/from home and tend to use the mobile for texts (inc. abroad)
and only "urgent" calls away from home. I often seem to spend more
keeping it alive than "proper" use :-(

PeeGee
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knowledge or consent of the computer user. Software should also be able
to be removed from a computer easily."
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"Neil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Barney" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>> "Ian R" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
>>> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is
>>> less reliable than other mobile companies.
>>>
>>> Do they really vary so much?
>>>
>>> Is T-Mobile that bad?
>
> T-Mobile have never invested enough in their 2G network since acquiring it
> from One to One many years ago. As their network started it's life within
> the M25 and gradually expanded outwards in the mid nineties, they never
> built enough cell sites in the early days in areas they wanted to
> concentrate on outside of London.
>
> Certain outlying places suffer in the North of England on T-Mobile and if
> you want to visit the highlands of Scotland then forget it! For me
> personally, the test of a phone network's coverage isn't stood in a street
> in Leeds or driving down the M6 but in places more remote like the Lake
> District and mid Wales, places by now you expect a phone to work!
>
> I'd never go with T-Mob as I know reliability would suffer in outlying
> areas I travel to, Orange is much better but was the reason I sacked off
> my Three contract when they switched from O2 to Orange as the coverage
> degraded somewhat!
>
> Personally go for Vodafone or O2 if you want reliable good coverage,
> otherwise if in a large city where you live and work then any of the
> networks is a good option.

I wouldn't go for Vodafone, their coverage is far worse than O2. I'm on BT
Mobile (BT Fusion) and they use the Voda network and I often have a problem
with coverage that really pisses me off. It doesn't really seem to matter
where I am, ie, home (Preston, Lancashire), visiting Relly's in Carlisle, or
Birmingham - it happens wherever I happen to be.

I can be sat in a room and have a full 5 bars signal. All at once, the phone
bleeps to tell me I have a new text message. When I look it says I have a
new voicemail, please call 1571 - but when I do, I find that it's someone
who called me about 15 minutes earlier, "You must be out of range as it's
gone straight to voicemail, but it's me and I......"

I've been sat in the same position in the same room with maximum signal for
at least an hour but callers don't get me, they get my voicemail. I've had
three different handsets (2 Motorola A910s and a Nokia 6136) and all suffer
from this problem (maybe 3 out of 10 incoming calls do it) so it must be a
network problem, although the cinic in me thinks it's a con to get me to pay
more money every time I have to ring 1571 and then ring the caller back!!

John

Here in south Wales the only truly reliable and solid network for use in
towns, valleys and mountainous/hilly regions is orange. They seem to have
made a big investment in Wales and as a result have many more customers than
the other networks out of main towns.

The major towns are much the same as coverage goes.

"John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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"Neil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Barney" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>> "Ian R" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
>>> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is
>>> less reliable than other mobile companies.
>>>
>>> Do they really vary so much?
>>>
>>> Is T-Mobile that bad?
>
> T-Mobile have never invested enough in their 2G network since acquiring it
> from One to One many years ago. As their network started it's life within
> the M25 and gradually expanded outwards in the mid nineties, they never
> built enough cell sites in the early days in areas they wanted to
> concentrate on outside of London.
>
> Certain outlying places suffer in the North of England on T-Mobile and if
> you want to visit the highlands of Scotland then forget it! For me
> personally, the test of a phone network's coverage isn't stood in a street
> in Leeds or driving down the M6 but in places more remote like the Lake
> District and mid Wales, places by now you expect a phone to work!
>
> I'd never go with T-Mob as I know reliability would suffer in outlying
> areas I travel to, Orange is much better but was the reason I sacked off
> my Three contract when they switched from O2 to Orange as the coverage
> degraded somewhat!
>
> Personally go for Vodafone or O2 if you want reliable good coverage,
> otherwise if in a large city where you live and work then any of the
> networks is a good option.

I wouldn't go for Vodafone, their coverage is far worse than O2. I'm on BT
Mobile (BT Fusion) and they use the Voda network and I often have a problem
with coverage that really pisses me off. It doesn't really seem to matter
where I am, ie, home (Preston, Lancashire), visiting Relly's in Carlisle, or
Birmingham - it happens wherever I happen to be.

I can be sat in a room and have a full 5 bars signal. All at once, the phone
bleeps to tell me I have a new text message. When I look it says I have a
new voicemail, please call 1571 - but when I do, I find that it's someone
who called me about 15 minutes earlier, "You must be out of range as it's
gone straight to voicemail, but it's me and I......"

I've been sat in the same position in the same room with maximum signal for
at least an hour but callers don't get me, they get my voicemail. I've had
three different handsets (2 Motorola A910s and a Nokia 6136) and all suffer
from this problem (maybe 3 out of 10 incoming calls do it) so it must be a
network problem, although the cinic in me thinks it's a con to get me to pay
more money every time I have to ring 1571 and then ring the caller back!!

John

On 2007-12-14, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can be sat in a room and have a full 5 bars signal. All at once, the phone
> bleeps to tell me I have a new text message. When I look it says I have a
> new voicemail, please call 1571 - but when I do, I find that it's someone
> who called me about 15 minutes earlier, "You must be out of range as it's
> gone straight to voicemail, but it's me and I......"

I suspect this happens as a way to shed load from a cell tower which
is nearing capacity. When they're getting overloaded they need to do
something, and sending incoming calls to voicemail probably attracts
fewer complaints than blocking outgoing calls or dropping the calls
of travelers moving into the cell's area. For example, people might
blame it on their handset instead...

> I've been sat in the same position in the same room with maximum signal for
> at least an hour but callers don't get me, they get my voicemail. I've had
> three different handsets (2 Motorola A910s and a Nokia 6136) and all suffer
> from this problem (maybe 3 out of 10 incoming calls do it) so it must be a

See, it worked with you.

Dennis Ferguson

"Ian R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi
>
> I'm thinking of changing my current contract with Orange to a deal on
> T-mobile but Ive been told to avoid T-Mobile as the signal reception is
> less reliable than other mobile companies.
>
> Do they really vary so much?
>
> Is T-Mobile that bad?
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Ian
>
it is a 1800Mhz only system and as such is RUBBISH!

> it is a 1800Mhz only system and as such is RUBBISH!
>
>
why buy a 900Mhz and 1800Mhz phone and only use 1800Mhz...it is sully...go
for o2 or Vodaphone...proper cellphone providers.......

"Dennis Ferguson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 2007-12-14, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I can be sat in a room and have a full 5 bars signal. All at once, the
>> phone
>> bleeps to tell me I have a new text message. When I look it says I have a
>> new voicemail, please call 1571 - but when I do, I find that it's someone
>> who called me about 15 minutes earlier, "You must be out of range as it's
>> gone straight to voicemail, but it's me and I......"
>
> I suspect this happens as a way to shed load from a cell tower which
> is nearing capacity. When they're getting overloaded they need to do
> something, and sending incoming calls to voicemail probably attracts
> fewer complaints than blocking outgoing calls or dropping the calls
> of travelers moving into the cell's area. For example, people might
> blame it on their handset instead...
>
>> I've been sat in the same position in the same room with maximum signal
>> for
>> at least an hour but callers don't get me, they get my voicemail. I've
>> had
>> three different handsets (2 Motorola A910s and a Nokia 6136) and all
>> suffer
>> from this problem (maybe 3 out of 10 incoming calls do it) so it must be
>> a
>
> See, it worked with you.
>
> Dennis Ferguson

That's an interesting theory Dennis and could well be right.

John