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Orange/T-Mobile Shared Network Coverage
I'm an Orange PAYG mobile phone customer. Today Orange sent me a text saying: "I can now sign-up to receive signals from both Orange & T-Mobile". In essence this theoretically means that my phone can now roam between the 2 service providers within the UK at no extra cost to me. So, supposedly, I should experience an enhanced network coverage overall. Is this what actually happens? Or is it largely hype and hence, a tatic used to get you to sign-up? Has anyone signed-up to this service yet? If you have, have you experienced any off putting problems already? I've read the help & support/FAQ sections of both companies but neither provides detailed troubleshooting information that's device-specific. Any advice, feedback &/or personal accounts of this service will be gratefully received! Thanks.
Orange info: https://kareena.orange.co.uk/share/ T-Mobile info: www.t-mobile.co.uk/share/ |
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I have signed up for it and has come in handy in the few places I have no signal as it just swaps to T-Mobile with no extra charges at all or anything. Not had any problems with it myself.
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I have signed up for it and has come in handy in the few places I have no signal as it just swaps to T-Mobile with no extra charges at all or anything. Not had any problems with it myself.
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I have signed up to it as it also helps me out when I don't have a signal in some places.
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I signed up and it works well.
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Yes I signed up, it works well. My phone has switched dozens of times in the last 2 weeks since.
No problems at all. Next year i believe that you will have to opt out not in anyway, so might as well get the benifit sooner. |
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Yes I signed up, it works well. My phone has switched dozens of times in the last 2 weeks since.
No problems at all. Next year i believe that you will have to opt out not in anyway, so might as well get the benifit sooner. |
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Hopefully this will solve my flaky reception at work. I am reluctant to turn on data roaming though, the bills would be horrendous if I took it abroard what with synching and emails!
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Hopefully this will solve my flaky reception at work. I am reluctant to turn on data roaming though, the bills would be horrendous if I took it abroard what with synching and emails!
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Data roaming only costs mega bucks when you're abroad.
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Yes, but it is worth remembering that because you've turned on data roaming for the UK (and without any charge), you are liable to be automatically ripped off when you step outside of the UK!
And even in the EU, charges for data are stupidly high. |
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No you aren't.
Go abroad, turn off data roaming. simples. |
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i'm on t-mobile and it has worked a few times but usually when i'm in a bad signal area it's bad for both. Parts of Redditch where a number of my friends are have very well known blackspots for one. and strangely here in Birmingham my parents have a network rail tower nearby that tends to do a serious number on signals. I can only surmise the same general frequencies are used and the phone is getting front end overload or something to that effect
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I tried it and it was awful. Edge coverage in areas I had previously had 3G and no coverage in some areas at all. I opted out very quickly.
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I opted into this yesterday, and my phone roamed onto "T-Mobile Orange" (with Edge) a few times on the train where I'd normally get No Service, also surprised to see it had roamed when walking along the Embankment at lunchtime.
AIUI at the moment phones should only roam when there's no coverage on the home network, rather than goto whatever is the strongest, |
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AFAIK your phone will only roam when it loses your home network - which is always a priority. Thus it won't just swap around at will (mine only goes to T-Mobile when I'm at home where Orange is rubbish).
It's also important to remember that the roaming is only on 2G, so you won't get the benefit of 3G/HSPA until next year. But, for receiving voice calls or texts, it's better than nothing. You don't have to opt-in, but I think fairly few people wouldn't be better off. |
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AFAIK your phone will only roam when it loses your home network - which is always a priority. Thus it won't just swap around at will (mine only goes to T-Mobile when I'm at home where Orange is rubbish).
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AIUI at the moment phones should only roam when there's no coverage on the home network, rather than goto whatever is the strongest,
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I did say that before, but I am pretty sure the GSM spec is still to seek your home network over anything else. Of course, usually when you're roaming the home network doesn't exist, so then it goes to the strongest network, or the highest priority PLMN.
Now, I seem to recall that Nokia handsets would re-order the priority by itself, based on a manual scan. Others would seek what was on the SIM card. Orange will and does reprogramme the SIM from time to time with PLMNs that are take priority, and the recent SIM update sent for this roaming no doubt placed T-Mobile (and Orange vice versa) as top. But, all of my training is about GSM and not 3G. I am not sure if it is any different. |
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I'm on Orange and signed up, I have an X10, should the Network Operator should be set to Orange or Orange T Mobile?
Thanks, Andy |
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Is there any chance of Vodaphone & O2 doing something similar, if only to cut costs?
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They already are according to The Register, although its a Network Infrastructure Share rather than a merger
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They already are according to The Register, although its a Network Infrastructure Share rather than a merger
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I'm on Orange and signed up, I have an X10, should the Network Operator should be set to Orange or Orange T Mobile?
Thanks, Andy |
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If you select Orange T-Mobile then you'll be locked to 2G only.
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I signed up to this a few days ago and ever since, my iPhone 3GS has just said 'No Service'.
Have the network selection on Automatic but it makes no difference if I choose Orange, it still says 'No Service'... What happened?! |
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