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I'm almost certain to join the network (either brand) once my contract with Vodafone is up (poor data).

[Lummo]

I like the news video they have put up on their website homepage http://everythingeverywhere.com/

I applied for a job at T-Mobile this evening, got my fingers crossed!

[interactiv-uk]

Originally Posted by Lummo

I like the news video they have put up on their website homepage http://everythingeverywhere.com/

I applied for a job at T-Mobile this evening, got my fingers crossed!

If you look very closely in the video the old couples iPad is on O2! Someone in EE's marketing needs a slap for attention to detail!

[sparky93]

Originally Posted by interactiv-uk

If you look very closely in the video the old couples iPad is on O2! Someone in EE's marketing needs a slap for attention to detail!

o dear, DOH!!!!

[reclusive46]

Originally Posted by interactiv-uk

If you look very closely in the video the old couples iPad is on O2! Someone in EE's marketing needs a slap for attention to detail!

Haha, I've noticed that before, they sort of blur it out but not very well.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by plymouthbloke1974

I'm quite impressed by the length, and the girth

<Insert obligatory that's what she said joke>

[DevonBloke]

I can confirm that Smart Signal is now working in Devon, and working properly.
My iPhone now stays on Orange...Tmoble 3G nearly all the time.
Driving along a long lane the other day I noticed it jumping from TM 3G to Orange 2G and then right back to TM 3G as soon as the signal was available again. This was with a 4 bar Orange 2G signal!!
The other day I was in a layby right next to an Orange 2G cell where there is only a sniff (1 bar) of TM 3G. If I shrouded the phone inside the car it would give me a 5 bar 2G Orange signal but as soon as I took it outside the car it would (within 20 seconds) swich over to the 1 bar TM 3G cell! Cool.

[plymouthbloke1974]

My T-M iPhone still favours Orange 3G and then 2G even though I have great T-M 3G signal. Would not normally care but I tether a bit and can't do that when on national roaming.

Have made people aware though, no biggie.

[Skippy2005]

Originally Posted by plymouthbloke1974

My T-M iPhone still favours Orange 3G and then 2G even though I have great T-M 3G signal. Would not normally care but I tether a bit and can't do that when on national roaming.

Have made people aware though, no biggie.

Hi Plymouth how you doing? I have a question. I was on Orange until recently and was able to receive speeds in excess of 6mb down on either network as i had gprs premium on orange. Now i have moved to the fully monty on TM i never hit any higher than 3.8mb down on either network so there is a cap on speed despite TM saying there isnt. My partner still has orange and hits 6.6mb we do a test at the same time and i always flatline at 3.8. Do TM offer anything to remove caps or can you shed any light. Many thanks

Email: harveyssofa@aol.com

[plymouthbloke1974]

Hi Skippy, I'm OK I suppose - thanks for asking

If you add one of the Super internet bolt ons it seems to increase the speed, although I have not tried this myself.

Hope this helps

[Step666]

Originally Posted by plymouthbloke1974

If you add one of the Super internet bolt ons it seems to increase the speed, although I have not tried this myself.

There's one guy on the T-Mobile forum who apparently managed to talk T-Mobile into adding the Super booster to his Full Monty account for no additional monthly cost, using the logic that given he already has unlimited internet, adding it wouldn't be giving him anything more than he supposedly already had.

However, when I tried a similar logical argument about adding a 1GB/month booster with a higher speed cap to my contract which already includes 3GB (that T-Mobile incorrectly claimed had no speed cap), the best I got was an offer for credit to cover the first 3 months then I'd have to pay for it.

[Skippy2005]

Originally Posted by plymouthbloke1974

Hi Skippy, I'm OK I suppose - thanks for asking

If you add one of the Super internet bolt ons it seems to increase the speed, although I have not tried this myself.

Hope this helps

Hiya Plymouth thanks for the reply. That sounds good do you know anything about the super internet bolt ons and prices i dont seem to be able to find them on TM's website. Thanks.

[Skippy2005]

Originally Posted by Step666

There's one guy on the T-Mobile forum who apparently managed to talk T-Mobile into adding the Super booster to his Full Monty account for no additional monthly cost, using the logic that given he already has unlimited internet, adding it wouldn't be giving him anything more than he supposedly already had.

However, when I tried a similar logical argument about adding a 1GB/month booster with a higher speed cap to my contract which already includes 3GB (that T-Mobile incorrectly claimed had no speed cap), the best I got was an offer for credit to cover the first 3 months then I'd have to pay for it.

Hi Stepp thanks for the info. Which Super booster did you go for? From what i can make out from Plymouth there seems to be several?

Cheers

[Step666]

There's only the one Super Internet booster and I don't have it - there's no way I'm paying £19/month to increase my speeds, that's nearly double the cost of my tariff.

The other booster that was added to my account temporarily before is called '1GB Monthly Allowance' and costs £10/month.

[DevonBloke]

Originally Posted by plymouthbloke1974

My T-M iPhone still favours Orange 3G and then 2G even though I have great T-M 3G signal. Would not normally care but I tether a bit and can't do that when on national roaming.

Have made people aware though, no biggie.

Hmmmm strange. My iPhone 3GS is on Orange and definitely switches properly around 95% of the time. There's an occasional glitch where it will stick rigidly to Orange but the last time was a good week ago. My Wife has an iPhone 4 on Orange and that works properly too. I have my phone in a car holder on charge so I can watch it as I drive along.
It will reliably jump from a 4 or 5 bar Orange 2G cell to a 1 or 2 bar T-Mobile cell. It's a beautiful thing to watch if you're a sad anorak like me :-)
I would say that 90% of the time I look at the screen it's on Orange or T-Mobile 3G which is a vast improvement to having to manually scan for networks and select T-Mobile.

Since you're just down the road from me (I'm in Totnes), I would have thought that your iPhone would behave in a similar manner. It must be the SIMs. It would be interesting to hear from other Westcountry users with T-Mobile and Orange SIMs since (apparently) the South West is using a different experimental version of Smart Signal and certainly with my Orange SIM it's very dynamic indeed.

Indoors of course it's mostly on 2G which is why Ofcom need to man up and tell Vodafone and O2 to stop bloody sulking and let EE enable LTE over 1800Mhz.
It's quite breath-taking how little 3G investment VOD & O2 have put into the rural areas like the South West.

Of course Apple need to produce an iPhone 5 capable of doing LTE over 1800Mhz and I would hope that a lot of work has be going on behind the scenes at EE to campaign for this.

It won't of course and we'll all have to wait another bloody year for the iPhone 5s with Siri that works in the UK, holographic full sized keyboard and built in mind reading

[DevonBloke]

Thought I'd be different and add my ugly mug to my profile.
Maybe others would like to have a go too.... unless you're all way more ugly!
It could just be the bottle of red I've just drunk though and I'll regret it in the morning

EDIT: Ok, I've just realised it's only in the profile page, not the actual posts........ because I'm stupid...
I blame it on the 3 bottles for 10 quid in spar!!
It's been a long week and I have to deal with the general public.

[cmorris]

Are you talking about Orange and T Mobile network share? or has this been done and because I have signed up with Orange will it affect me

[DevonBloke]

Originally Posted by cmorris

Are you talking about Orange and T Mobile network share? or has this been done and because I have signed up with Orange will it affect me

Yes. Welcome to EE. All being well your phone will dynamically switch between Orange and T-Mobile and will always hunt down the best 3G signal and switch accordingly.
As far as I know The south west is on a different version which may or may not be better than where you are.
Plymouth will correct me on this if this is not the case.
Welcome to the best 2G/3G network in the land. If EE can pull off the LTE thing, then it'll be the best network on the planet!

[interactiv-uk]

Plymouth, you mentioned a whole ago about the femtocell trial you were involved in. Since Orange announced the rollout a couple of days ago can you go into a bit more detail on the device please?

[wrexham103.4]

are EE still decommissioning masts? and where?

[DevonBloke]

Originally Posted by interactiv-uk

Plymouth, you mentioned a whole ago about the femtocell trial you were involved in. Since Orange announced the rollout a couple of days ago can you go into a bit more detail on the device please?

Crikey, are they? I must have missed something. Do you have a link to the item? I could really do with a femto cell.
Cheers

[interactiv-uk]

Originally Posted by DevonBloke

Crikey, are they? I must have missed something. Do you have a link to the item? I could really do with a femto cell.
Cheers

It's all over the net.. Here's one link.

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=474599

[djpalmer93]

Originally Posted by wrexham103.4

are EE still decommissioning masts? and where?

I noticed when looking at the coverage map recently that Orange have decommissioned a mast in Hoveton, Norfolk.

[DevonBloke]

Originally Posted by interactiv-uk

It's all over the net.. Here's one link.

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=474599

Thanks. great! I sent an email to the CEO of Orange once saying how I thought UMA was a waste of time and would never catch on because it relied on phone makers including it in the hardware in the device.
I got a call back the next day and a lot of questions as to why I thought this was.
I said it was plain and simple. 3 problems with WiFi calling (UMA).

1. ALL manufacturers would need to build it into EVERY handset which simply isn't going to happen.
2. You have to configure it for it to work or at least connect the WiFi (which I have noticed a lot of my customers don't even know thier handset has WiFi!)
3. Even then it's decidedly iffy depending on what router you have and whether it has a SPI firewall which gets upset and blocks the required ports.

It's just not transparent enough.

Femto on the other hand is normally just a case of plugging the cell into your home router and waiting for everything to configure itself. Because it's just a tiny phone cell, EVERY phone will work with it.

They tried to argue for UMA but I wasn't having it. I just told them they better hope the new iPhone has UMA (unlikely) or they would be in trouble.
At the time, the new iPhone was the iPhone 4...... it didn't have UMA.

If only they'd listened to me 2 years ago I wouldn't have been making calls with my head against the window all this time

I was going to get one of those Cel-Fi (or what ever they're called) things but they're just too damned expensive at 500 quid.

Hopefully EE will have something out in a few months according to the article.

[reclusive46]

Originally Posted by djpalmer93

I noticed when looking at the coverage map recently that Orange have decommissioned a mast in Hoveton, Norfolk.

Didn't they have a T-Mobile mast near there anyway?