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Orange is 20
The Orange brand celebrates its 20th birthday today, don't think they'll be much made of it in the UK due to EE's focus on 4G but it's still the main brand in most of the other countries they operate.
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their network seems that old as well because it is so naff.
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It's the biggest, fastest and best network in the UK so not sure how you work that one out @noise747!
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It's the biggest, fastest and best network in the UK so not sure how you work that one out @noise747!
Personally I don't believe this best and fastest network, etc thing, as my friends on EE are constantly getting dropped calls and the new thing is texts sending multiple times in fact one of my cousins I received the same text from her 4 times each about 3 minutes apart and this has happened on multiple occasions with different friends on EE. |
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I dont think the Orange brand in the UK has much life left in it!
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Wait you forgot, According to Rootmetrics* (a company that EE pays to support)
Personally I don't believe this best and fastest network, etc thing, as my friends on EE are constantly getting dropped calls and the new thing is texts sending multiple times in fact one of my cousins I received the same text from her 4 times each about 3 minutes apart and this has happened on multiple occasions with different friends on EE. |
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The Orange brand celebrates its 20th birthday today
All a bit sad. If FT had just acquired T-Mob UK or DT/FT had worked something out a premium Orange brand doing 4G/high end with T-Mob doing more budget offerings could have worked really well. There was still plenty of value in the Orange brand in the UK despite FT's best efforts. |
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It's the biggest, fastest and best network in the UK so not sure how you work that one out @noise747!
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It's the biggest, fastest and best network in the UK so not sure how you work that one out @noise747!
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it never was and still isn't, you're talking rubbish
Well the 3G and 4G networks are still the largest in the UK. They have the most customers in the UK. They have the most transmitter sites, currently (obviously this will drop considerably!). Voda has more 2G. "Fastest" is even more dubious - depends where you are! Though if you did a proper, UK-wide geographic survey, it would probably win this on average, due to having 3G in more places than Voda/O2, and 4G in more places than 3. and "Best" is subjective! |
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I think you'll find that is Tmobiles legacy network. The orange network is virtually dead.
EE's 2G only areas of the UK are also predominantly Orange. |
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Wait you forgot, According to Rootmetrics* (a company that EE pays to support)
http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps75aca2bf.gif But as Japaul said, Orange is all but dead in the UK really. Im just waiting for EE to fully kill off the brand name which will no doubt happen soon enough. |
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It's the biggest, fastest and best network in the UK so not sure how you work that one out @noise747!
I know a load of people on Orange/Tmobile/EE and i am forever telling to move to another network because the signal they get is so naff and they don't all live here. thankfully 3 of the people I phone most have now moved to different networks, one to Giffgaff, one to Three, which i am goign to look at and one to vodafone. Voice wise I find Vodafone great, which is my main means of contacting people anyway, 3g wise they are naff around here. |
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My friends have had no idea who EE were, when I have told them to check them out for an upgrade. I think they were silly to kill the well known brands for an unknown brand name.
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My friends have had no idea who EE were, when I have told them to check them out for an upgrade. I think they were silly to kill the well known brands for an unknown brand name.
Cellnet -> BT Cellnet -> O2 One2One -> T-Mobile The EE rebrand was just not handled very well... |
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Says who?
I know a load of people on Orange/Tmobile/EE and i am forever telling to move to another network because the signal they get is so naff and they don't all live here. Quote:
thankfully 3 of the people I phone most have now moved to different networks, one to Giffgaff, one to Three, which i am goign to look at and one to vodafone.
Can't see how moving from EE to 3 would improve coverage. I just switched my tablet from GiffGaff to 3, as O2's 3G network needs some serious work. Quote:
Voice wise I find Vodafone great, which is my main means of contacting people anyway, 3g wise they are naff around here.
Vodafone's 3G is terrible, for coverage, and data allowance/speeds.
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Says who?
I know a load of people on Orange/Tmobile/EE and i am forever telling to move to another network because the signal they get is so naff and they don't all live here. thankfully 3 of the people I phone most have now moved to different networks, one to Giffgaff, one to Three, which i am goign to look at and one to vodafone. Voice wise I find Vodafone great, which is my main means of contacting people anyway, 3g wise they are naff around here. |
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Mhm.... Mobile coverage varies between the operators. There are places where EE is best, believe it or not.
Saying that my brother was outside my house in his van and phoned me to see where I was and that was fine, so outside my house is fine for EE. but then outside my house is good for all networks.Quote:
Can't see how moving from EE to 3 would improve coverage. i was told that 3 was awful, but seems to be ok around here.I just switched my tablet from GiffGaff to 3, as O2's 3G network needs some serious work. Quote:
Vodafone's 3G is terrible, for coverage, and data allowance/speeds.
again i do not disagree, but voice wise they are fine, whic is my main means of contact.
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As de525ma said; I'm yet to find anywhere were 3 offers a coverage improvement over EE. This is not to say they don't exist but I've certainly been in plenty of places were Orange 2G and 2G/3G masts fill in the gaps.
i am going to get a 3 sim and stick it in my Nexus and stick my vodafone sim in my old phone and see how 3 does for a month or so. |
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Seems to be better here than EE by all accounts.
i am going to get a 3 sim and stick it in my Nexus and stick my vodafone sim in my old phone and see how 3 does for a month or so. * Excluding the old Orange 3G masts which have not been decommissioned / refreshed. Three has no access to these. |
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Personally I would say EE top, closely followed by Three then O2 / voda bringing up the rear.
The network kpis by independent companies (not just rootmetrics) show this and EE / Three keep getting recognised & winning awards from industry / consumer publications. |
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Shame that the best years, pre-France Telecom, are no more.
Hans Snook 4lyf. |
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Shame that the best years, pre-France Telecom, are no more.
Hans Snook 4lyf. |
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I felt compelled to write a story about this today on my blog, as the launch of Orange was particularly important for me. It really got my phone business off the ground.
http://wp.me/pPUSM-hN I feel a lot of others could add to this with their own experiences and filling in some gaps. |
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but then outside my house is good for all networks.