Alton Towers Hotels. A Vodafone-free zone...

How can Vodafone not have any coverage (2g or 3g) in the Alton towers
hotels? The staff say it is a well known problem there and Bt only
empty the phone boxes once a week so they are often jammed up. They
let people use the hotel phone to make a few calls if you are really
stuck.

Lots of Orange signal there so there must be a mast around there
somewhere.

Come on Voda! It's one of the country's top tourist spots!

Jules

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On 1 Jul, 11:22, Jules <[email protected]> wrote:
> How can Vodafone not have any coverage (2g or 3g) in the Alton towers
> hotels? The staff say it is a well known problem there and Bt only
> empty the phone boxes once a week so they are often jammed up. They
> let people use the hotel phone to make a few calls if you are really
> stuck.
>
> Lots of Orange signal there so there must be a mast around there
> somewhere.
>
> Come on Voda! It's one of the country's top tourist spots!
>
> Jules

They banned smartphones allready wont be long before they do the rest
if they had there way ! ( http://www.systemtek.co.uk/modules.p...rticle&sid=246
) who knows...

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

> On 1 Jul, 11:22, Jules <[email protected]> wrote:
>> How can Vodafone not have any coverage (2g or 3g) in the Alton towers
>> hotels? The staff say it is a well known problem there and Bt only
>> empty the phone boxes once a week so they are often jammed up. They
>> let people use the hotel phone to make a few calls if you are really
>> stuck.
>>
>> Lots of Orange signal there so there must be a mast around there
>> somewhere.
>>
>> Come on Voda! It's one of the country's top tourist spots!
>>
>> Jules
>
> They banned smartphones allready wont be long before they do the rest
> if they had there way ! (
> http://www.systemtek.co.uk/modules.p...rticle&sid=246
> ) who knows...

Hmm, that's an odd one. I've used my phone to text friends at Alton Towers
if we've split up for a while, and are now trying to meet up again... Seeing
as at least one of my friends phone is a PDA style thingy, I can see this
causing problems!!

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:46:23 +0100, "ChrisM"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hmm, that's an odd one. I've used my phone to text friends at Alton Towers
>if we've split up for a while, and are now trying to meet up again... Seeing
>as at least one of my friends phone is a PDA style thingy, I can see this
>causing problems!!

It isn't that they are trying to stop people using mobiles (or even
pdas - which is a voluntary thing and a bit of a free-advertising/
headline-grabber), they say Voda won't put a transmitter in. Maybe
Orange had to pay Alton Towers for the privilege and Voda won't?

Jules