Hello

I'm getting near renewal with O2 and have read that their network for the internet is not too good. However I have been thinking of switching to orange but my friends mobiles dont have too great a coverage at my home. Orange seems ok elsewhere its just around my home and the surrounding areas for 1/2 miles.
I read somewhere there is a booster which can improve the coverage at and around your home - can anyone point me in the right direction.

Also do you think I am right dropping O2 and starting up with orange. I am thinking of getting the Desire phone.

So O2 to orange, with a new Desire phone and in need of an around my location booster - thoughts would be appreciated, thanks

don't you mean a femtocell or whatever they're called? Basically a small mast... Don't think Orange do them yet.

They do something called UMA - on some 3G mobile phones - where you can roam onto your home wifi connection.

thanks for the replies

i think this sounds like what someone said at work, if signal is bad it picks up your local broadband connection - have you any more info, a link?

If you google "Orange UMA" you'll find it

From the way I read it, it looks like it might be for making calls, sending texts, using the internet - but not for receiving calls.

What UMA appears to do is all rather moot - I think only Blackberries routinely include it, and one or two ancient Nokia dumbphones,

Have you thought about Vodafone, they have the Sure Signal device, which is the only femtocell in the market. It uses your home bb to provide a 3G signal. Advantage of UMA is you can also receive calls, also it works with any 3G phone, not just the UMA compatible ones