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I seem to recall you're in scotland, and I'm in the south east of england - our experiences are the complete opposite. However Vodafone have radically improved in the areas I visit, and at my friends house in Fleet, Hants, where there was no signal on any network, the recent activation of Vodafone 4G at 800 means I get voda signal in his flat. This was a 'no service' zone only in August.
So in terms of 'most improved network 2015' I would give a gold star to Vodafone. I live 7 miles south of glasgow city centre. |
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#2452 |
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I know it has been mentioned already but no answer was given. iPhone vodafone users got a carrier update a few days ago. Does anyone know what it did?
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I find Vodafone excellent but then I don't go rural very often.
I live 7 miles south of glasgow city centre. I never understood why the effect was so regional. |
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Managed to stream music continously in 4G from London to Stourbridge along the M40 with Vodafone admittedly my phone was high up in a cradle and Locked to 4G only but other than two ten second drops it was continuous! wow some of the M40 was still 2G a year ago!
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I know it has been mentioned already but no answer was given. iPhone vodafone users got a carrier update a few days ago. Does anyone know what it did?
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#2456 |
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Yes Vodafone have made a lot of improvements in recent weeks.
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#2457 |
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I won't bother you with the other bits like my account apparently being created without any account number at all so no one can find it and leave you with the exciting news that my number is apparently going to be ported across tomorrow. I really REALLY hope their network is better than their support and ordering systems otherwise I'm out of here faster than you can say EE. What ever changes you make to your account it takes 2 complete working days to register, there Web site and many of the options within it, do not work, it often crashes, if you took out a tariff which was on an offer price, chances are it won't work and you'll get billed the amount until you can eventually speak to someone who can sort it, this took several calls to sort mine, the 1st call went very like your: Who are you and where did you get this account or reference number from? We have no record of it... But to be fair, since it was sorted I've had no issues, refunds were all done as stated on the phone, unlike the 3 or 4 months it took three to actually action what they said on the phone, the app is simple and quite useful, I can speed test without using data via there network app, my Spotify add on was really easy to set up and works. Just dread leaving or moving to a new plan or anything requiring input from somebody. |
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#2458 |
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When I joined Vodafone, I went though almost the same level of issues, though completely different from yours, and took an age to sort anything.
What ever changes you make to your account it takes 2 complete working days to register, there Web site and many of the options within it, do not work, it often crashes, if you took out a tariff which was on an offer price, chances are it won't work and you'll get billed the amount until you can eventually speak to someone who can sort it, this took several calls to sort mine, the 1st call went very like your: Who are you and where did you get this account or reference number from? We have no record of it... But to be fair, since it was sorted I've had no issues, refunds were all done as stated on the phone, unlike the 3 or 4 months it took three to actually action what they said on the phone, the app is simple and quite useful, I can speed test without using data via there network app, my Spotify add on was really easy to set up and works. Just dread leaving or moving to a new plan or anything requiring input from somebody. Quick question: I've already got Spotify, does the Vodafone addon simply extend my existing Spotify subscription? I'm half way through an already paid for month with Spotify in an ideal world my free 12 months from Vodafone would just take over at the end of my current paid for period. |
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Quick question: I've already got Spotify, does the Vodafone addon simply extend my existing Spotify subscription? I'm half way through an already paid for month with Spotify in an ideal world my free 12 months from Vodafone would just take over at the end of my current paid for period. I already had Spotify premium too, and needed to cancel my existing subscription, note down the day it runs out, then when it's ran out, go though the activation process via the text or email from Vodafone. If you try and do it before your existing subscription has expired it throws up an error. Once it's live it's there doesn't seem to be any limitations on it apart from I cannot log on/sign up via a PC for some reason. Multiple phones, tablets, smart tvs and Android boxes seems OK though.. Hope this helps |
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#2460 |
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Unless it's changed or I did something wrong, your free 12 month Spotify, sky sports or sky mobile or 6 month Netflix sub starts when your contract starts, it's up to you to assign it to one of them, (they send you plenty of texts to remind you)
I already had Spotify premium too, and needed to cancel my existing subscription, note down the day it runs out, then when it's ran out, go though the activation process via the text or email from Vodafone. If you try and do it before your existing subscription has expired it throws up an error. Once it's live it's there doesn't seem to be any limitations on it apart from I cannot log on/sign up via a PC for some reason. Multiple phones, tablets, smart tvs and Android boxes seems OK though.. Hope this helps |
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Ta, that's good to know! I'm hoping if I cancel my Spotify sub and then activate again with Vodafone I won't lose all my starred songs or playlists!
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Ta, that's good to know! I'm hoping if I cancel my Spotify sub and then activate again with Vodafone I won't lose all my starred songs or playlists!
Spotify isn't like Google play music in when you cancel your sub anything you added or liked that wasn't uploaded by yourself vanishes, it just drops down to the standard free version where it limited track skips, shuffle play only and no high quality audio. Everything else stays the same as far as I know. |
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#2463 |
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As promised, currently getting around 20-30mb down 4-5up on AT&T 4G all over network even in hotspots like Times Square etc... Must be capped for roamers, pings of around 100-200.
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#2464 |
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Thanks guys, I've cancelled my Spotify sub and will activate again with the Vodafone deal once it drops down to a free account!
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I didn't have a problem with that, but Vodafone's system which lets you get the Spotify premium was down for like a week which was super annoying as it meant I'd basically missed out on a month of free Spotify by the time I'd waited for my existing subscription to expire and then Vodafone to sort out their crappy system. They did give me £5 credit to say sorry but were pretty ungracious about it.
Like when you add and upgrade various parts in a old pc tower which while work and do improve things it's still the old processor and motherboard clunking everything around. |
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I didn't have a problem with that, but Vodafone's system which lets you get the Spotify premium was down for like a week which was super annoying as it meant I'd basically missed out on a month of free Spotify by the time I'd waited for my existing subscription to expire and then Vodafone to sort out their crappy system. They did give me £5 credit to say sorry but were pretty ungracious about it.
It's not made clear you need to cancel your existing sub until you realise you can't just apply it. If Vodafone made that clearer, you could cancel sooner (when I wanted to switch, I had just started into a new month and could have cancelled even before I went to sign the new contract). |
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Unless you live in the south west or east Anglia, where they appear to have done almost nothing at all - it's almost as if there's an "anti-4G" forcefield at the Somerset border
I think Voda might be pretty reliable once they've got 3G900 on every mast, and ideally 3G2100 too. But if all you've got is 2G900, the experience is awful, and you're better off on EE or 3. |
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There's quite a bit of anti-3G in my area of Anglia! (East Northamptonshire.)
I think Voda might be pretty reliable once they've got 3G900 on every mast, and ideally 3G2100 too. But if all you've got is 2G900, the experience is awful, and you're better off on EE or 3. |
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There's quite a bit of anti-3G in my area of Anglia! (East Northamptonshire.)
I think Voda might be pretty reliable once they've got 3G900 on every mast, and ideally 3G2100 too. But if all you've got is 2G900, the experience is awful, and you're better off on EE or 3. ![]() It sounds like the Cornerstone'd areas have fantastic networks now. |
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Yes I gather Norfolk is 2G only on voda and excellent 3G on three and has 4g with EE.
In Dorset, things were not too different. On my spot on the campsite, EE had -113dBm 3G and about -110dBm 2G. If I walked to certain parts, the signal would disappear. (To be fair, EE/3's prediction was pretty much exactly right). Vodafone. meanwhile. had -86dBm GPRS, which was no data until about 1am when I could then get about 30K. The pivotal question, however, is which device did I use? EE. Enough said. |
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It sounds like the Cornerstone'd areas have fantastic networks now. |
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I think as you're still using the Vodafone APN your data still goes via the UK. Most speed test apps pick your server based on your physical location, so your ping test is probably going from NYC to Vodafone's servers in the UK and then to the test server which is close to NYC.
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There's quite a bit of anti-3G in my area of Anglia! (East Northamptonshire.)
I think Voda might be pretty reliable once they've got 3G900 on every mast, and ideally 3G2100 too. But if all you've got is 2G900, the experience is awful, and you're better off on EE or 3. |
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Something odd has happened at my mast. I now have full voda 4G using frequency Id 30 which I think is 800 coming from old 2006 Antennas which I didn't think was possible
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Something odd has happened at my mast. I now have full voda 4G using frequency Id 30 which I think is 800 coming from old 2006 Antennas which I didn't think was possible
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