Thanks. I guess from your ID you must be fairly near me. Assuming it's the Plymouth in Devon and not the USA?
I'm in Totnes.... very alternative.... wear what you like and no one bats an eyelid!
Been on Orange for 14 Years!! Same account, same number. Surely must be a record??
I was customer number 00281*** (Still my Orange account number) when I signed up in July 1996 so Orange had less than 300,000 cuntomers!! Bit loathe to change now but I've been doing some testing lately and I can report that beyond any shadow of a doubt, 3 and T-Mobile have an amazing 3G network here in Devon.
Orange have only upgraded the main transmitters but MBNL have done pretty much all of them.
Got an iPhone on Orange but unlocked my old Orange HTC TyTn 2 and ordered some free 3 and T-Mobile SIMs and set about testing.
There's virtually no rural roads where there's no 3G!
I'm very tempted to change but from the topic of this thread it's clear I only have to wait for the merge and we're in business.
What amazes me is the robustness of the HSPA signal. I live in an old farmhouse with walls 3 foot thick. Outside all networks are around 1-2 bars. Indoors nothing, unless you put the phone in the window and then you get 1-2 again.
With GSM (GPRS or EDGE) you need at least 4 bars to get maximum speed but with 3's HSPA I can have just 1 bar and 1.5Mpbs on the speed tester!
Love it.