Was doing a bit of searching checking out three's coverage and what not to see what it was like in N.I

Came across this blog http://thranblog.info/post/109017255...early-contract and at the bottom he states:


For one how could he know this and two is he right in any way?

Hmm. I second the OP's question as I was looking into something similar with three.

Does he not just mean for example that it wont work when on Orange/T-Mobile fallback as there is no data available on it?

Is it possible it's because three don't allow free mms as part of their iPhone packages?

That is just a random blog you know, I think he us just saying it won't work on the backup network, and we don't even know if that's the case. Usually you just need to enable data roaming.

I'm running iOS 5 on the 3 network and iMessage is working perfectly over 3G. I couldn't say if it works over the 2G backup though in my experience data becomes so slow on that it's virtually unusable but as I have a 3G signal most of the time it's not an issue. At the very worst an iMessage won't come through until a 3G signal is picked up again

I hope this isn't true and that imessage just comes under the all you can eat data plan I just signed up for.

I'm praying three network works around here,the website says it does ( as if that means anything), I need unlimited data but I'm not paying £600 for a phone to keep my O2 unlimited data contract running. So off to three I go.

It's not true. See my post above. iMessage works fine on 3

Works fine on Orange, T-Mob & 3 when using a 3G signal. I've not tested it on 2G.

Imessage should work perfectly well over 3G and wifi.
It's also just like an integrated version of whatsapp and is free.