Three has drastically reduced coverage in France

rasseru16 · 14-01-2015, 22:47

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Yes, Free use Orange for a lot of 3G coverage (and all of their 2G). I think the Free coverage map includes the Orange roaming that their own customers can use.

For a location map of all French mobile phone masts this can be found here which is always up-to-date:

http://www.antennesmobiles.fr/

In the field box "Géolocalisation" you type the name of the French village e.g. 'Calais'

sills · 15-01-2015, 08:32

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Originally Posted by Old Endeavour

so now two French 4G services I can find but not one on any network in my own town!

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but Vodafone, O2 and EE all have 4G in Folkestone.

GeorgeMC · 17-01-2015, 00:04

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Originally Posted by oilman

I'll bet you are a "If I speak loud enough in english, they will understand me" person!

What? They don't all understand English?

jchamier · 17-01-2015, 18:03

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Originally Posted by sills

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but Vodafone, O2 and EE all have 4G in Folkestone.

Poster must be on Three

sills · 18-01-2015, 14:13

I guess so, but he said he couldn't find 4G on any network

Phat Kev · 26-01-2015, 12:05

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Originally Posted by squawkBOX

Are you sure?

If you are in France at the moment, can you reboot and try to manually select Orange France?

Three have changed from Bouygues to Orange France (Dec 2014). Free has always been a 2nd roaming partner since Feel At Home started in France.

I love you squawkBOX!

Yes you were right, after manually searching I was able to use Orange in France and now have even better coverage than the original Bougyes telecom. Thank you so much!
Two questions (not to anyone in particular) - why didn't it just switch to Orange automatically? (it does now after the first manual change) and more importantly - why didn't the idiot in the Indian call centre tell me that there was an alternative to Free when I called to complain about their abysmal service instead of spouting drivel about new masts being built?

rasseru16 · 27-01-2015, 11:56

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Originally Posted by Phat Kev

I love you squawkBOX!

Yes you were right, after manually searching I was able to use Orange in France and now have even better coverage than the original Bougyes telecom. Thank you so much!
Two questions (not to anyone in particular) - why didn't it just switch to Orange automatically? (it does now after the first manual change) and more importantly - why didn't the idiot in the Indian call centre tell me that there was an alternative to Free when I called to complain about their abysmal service instead of spouting drivel about new masts being built?

My guess would be that your phone may have not updated with the list of 'Forbidden' network partners and thus not making that connection to Orange F, strange but seems to be your case.

squawkBOX · 18-01-2016, 15:31

Sorry to bring such an old thread back to life, but I can see that Three have removed Orange France as a roaming partner and their site is showing Bouygues and Free as the roaming partners.

I find in the areas that I visit, Orange France is superior in so many ways. It looks like I might have to acquire an Orange France PAYG SIM. From my reading around the web, it doesn't look like this is the easiest process in the world. Anyone with any experience of the best way to go about purchasing an Orange France PAYG SIM? I am just interested in data.

JFC · 18-01-2016, 16:18

Hope this is not true, I was in calais for Christmas and New Year and Free was awful. Bouygues seemed OKish but not good. Can't remember if I ever connected to orange on my last trip.

RE the posts above, this is how far I got across the channel and was still able to use EE. At this point my phone was not able to communicate back to the UK mainland and the French networks kicked in. I could still see EE in Calais though.

http://postimg.org/image/fbm23tdpl/

rasseru16 · 18-01-2016, 17:16

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Originally Posted by squawkBOX

Sorry to bring such an old thread back to life, but I can see that Three have removed Orange France as a roaming partner and their site is showing Bouygues and Free as the roaming partners.

I find in the areas that I visit, Orange France is superior in so many ways. It looks like I might have to acquire an Orange France PAYG SIM. From my reading around the web, it doesn't look like this is the easiest process in the world. Anyone with any experience of the best way to go about purchasing an Orange France PAYG SIM? I am just interested in data.

I indeed have an Orange France sim card and also SFR which I purchased from the shop in person, of course they will not speak in English so better brush up your French if you want one

don't forget they'll need your passport and may require you to sign a document (not usually with Orange F)

On Orange you can buy a 1GB data bundle valid for 14 days for €10.00

finbaar · 18-01-2016, 20:18

There looks nothing wrong with that coverage map (other than it being of France of course). And if you can use Orange as well then this thread is just another example of miss placed online outrage.

rasseru16 · 18-01-2016, 21:00

"La carte prépayée Mobicarte" = Prepaid Mobicarte

More info here: http://boutique.orange.fr/mobile/car...ayee-mobicarte

Mobile Internet Bundles with 4G: http://boutique.orange.fr/mobile/rec...internetMobile

DevonBloke · 18-01-2016, 21:25

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Originally Posted by plymouthbloke1974

Yes, in the same way that just outside Plymouth there is a beach which I can pick up Orange France 3G, SFR 3G, Bouygues 3G, Sure and Vodafone Jersey but I cannot log onto any of them as my phone isn't as powerful in the other direction.

I was at Hallsands near Start Point today and once you get down near the sea there is great 3G/4G that comes across the bay from the water tower mast near Stoke Fleming, Dartmouth which is damn near line of sight albeit 13Km away!. Could be Tor point mast near Slapton but it's way out of sight behind a really high hill. Tor point mast is red square on here. Amazing how the coverage is coming from much further away.
http://s11.postimg.org/uilll91mr/screenshot_58.png

Anyway, my point is, you are 140Km from Cherbourg here and I can always get all the French networks on a network scan.
But yeah, the 40 odd watts of power from the mast easily travels that far. The 1 watt from my phone, well, er, doesn't!

rasseru16 · 18-01-2016, 21:42

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Originally Posted by DevonBloke

I was at Hallsands near Start Point today and once you get down near the sea there is great 3G/4G that comes across the bay from the water tower mast near Stoke Fleming, Dartmouth which is damn near line of sight albeit 13Km away!. Could be Tor point mast near Slapton but it's way out of sight behind a really high hill. Tor point mast is red square on here. Amazing how the coverage is coming from much further away.
http://s11.postimg.org/uilll91mr/screenshot_58.png

Anyway, my point is, you are 140Km from Cherbourg here and I can always get all the French networks on a network scan.
But yeah, the 40 odd watts of power from the mast easily travels that far. The 1 watt from my phone, well, er, doesn't!

Go to this beautiful part of the world and VOILA! You will be immediately welcomed to France every time you visit, all French networks pick up perfectly including 3G and sucessfully logged onto them all here, not a UK signal in sight

https://goo.gl/maps/XMgYqSyvrW12

DavidGover · 19-01-2016, 17:50

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Originally Posted by rasseru16

Go to this beautiful part of the world and VOILA! You will be immediately welcomed to France every time you visit, all French networks pick up perfectly including 3G and sucessfully logged onto them all here, not a UK signal in sight

https://goo.gl/maps/XMgYqSyvrW12

That's not strictly true. I was there just the other day and out of curiosity I tried signing on to French networks with a few different sims.

Orange and Bougyes were fine, including 3G. Had a 3-4 bar signal too on Orange.
SFR I could pick up but not connect
FREE I could sometimes pick up but could not connect even once

Tests were done with 3 different devices: Blackberry Q5, iPhone 6S and Nokia C2-01. The Nokia was the most reliable, with the Q5 and iPhone being ok but not great.

rasseru16 · 19-01-2016, 19:15

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Originally Posted by DavidGover

That's not strictly true. I was there just the other day and out of curiosity I tried signing on to French networks with a few different sims.

Orange and Bougyes were fine, including 3G. Had a 3-4 bar signal too on Orange.
SFR I could pick up but not connect
FREE I could sometimes pick up but could not connect even once

Tests were done with 3 different devices: Blackberry Q5, iPhone 6S and Nokia C2-01. The Nokia was the most reliable, with the Q5 and iPhone being ok but not great.

Interesting! thanks for the feedback, will be going back to do some more tests myself

different atmospherics i suppose but i did manage to use them all including SFR. Any UK networks coming through down there?

Phat Kev · 25-01-2016, 10:48

It's quite true. After only 1 year with 'Orange', 3 have reverted back to using 'Bouygues' and 'Free' in France. Whilst the 'Bouygues' coverage is not nearly as good as Orange was it's still a darn sight better than the abysmal 'Free'

lightspeed2398 · 25-01-2016, 16:46

Free seems quite interesting. Using 2600 as their main rollout frequency for a while. I often wonder if it would have been better for Three to do that because the penetration would match more with their 3G network then get 10MHz of 800 or something. Can anyone report how it's going Three's rollout?

Also rasseru16 that map of the French mobile antennas is great! Wish we could get one like that for Britain.

rasseru16 · 25-01-2016, 17:12

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Originally Posted by lightspeed2398

Free seems quite interesting. Using 2600 as their main rollout frequency for a while. I often wonder if it would have been better for Three to do that because the penetration would match more with their 3G network then get 10MHz of 800 or something. Can anyone report how it's going Three's rollout?

Also rasseru16 that map of the French mobile antennas is great! Wish we could get one like that for Britain.

Yes that antenna map is truly awesome, sadly we don't get that treatment over here :P

binary · 26-01-2016, 13:48

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Originally Posted by rasseru16

For a location map of all French mobile phone masts this can be found here which is always up-to-date:

http://www.antennesmobiles.fr/

In the field box "Géolocalisation" you type the name of the French village e.g. 'Calais'

Like others have said, that's great, thanks for pointing us to that website!

It looks like mast location is publicly accessible information in France - the data on that site has come from the ANFR, aka L'Agence nationale des fréquences, a government body.

DavidGover · 19-02-2016, 22:42

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Originally Posted by rasseru16

Interesting! thanks for the feedback, will be going back to do some more tests myself

different atmospherics i suppose but i did manage to use them all including SFR. Any UK networks coming through down there?

It's not easy to get a decent UK signal in the area. Most of the time Orange FR is stronger than all UK networks. I assume they must have decent coverage in France

Where exactly were you when you were able to use all networks?

rasseru16 · 20-02-2016, 10:50

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Originally Posted by DavidGover

It's not easy to get a decent UK signal in the area. Most of the time Orange FR is stronger than all UK networks. I assume they must have decent coverage in France

Where exactly were you when you were able to use all networks?

I was on the bay itself when all the networks were working

squawkBOX · 22-06-2016, 17:57

Sorry to raise an old thread, but a quick check on Three's roaming agreements show that they've got Orange France back again! Their partnership seems to be on, then off, then on, then off...

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/Yj1I29N

I'll still be taking a Tesco Mobile SIM to France with me this summer though... Handy to know I'll get my calls / SMS on Orange France though on a backup mobile!

rasseru16 · 22-06-2016, 21:55

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Originally Posted by squawkBOX

Sorry to raise an old thread, but a quick check on Three's roaming agreements show that they've got Orange France back again! Their partnership seems to be on, then off, then on, then off...

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/Yj1I29N

I'll still be taking a Tesco Mobile SIM to France with me this summer though... Handy to know I'll get my calls / SMS on Orange France though on a backup mobile!

To be fair, ive noticed the recent agreement with 3 and Orange France too... My best guess its because of the Euro 2016 Football, it will probably end after.

Richard_T · 22-06-2016, 23:35

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Originally Posted by DavidGover

That's not strictly true. I was there just the other day and out of curiosity I tried signing on to French networks with a few different sims.

Orange and Bougyes were fine, including 3G. Had a 3-4 bar signal too on Orange.
SFR I could pick up but not connect
FREE I could sometimes pick up but could not connect even once

Tests were done with 3 different devices: Blackberry Q5, iPhone 6S and Nokia C2-01. The Nokia was the most reliable, with the Q5 and iPhone being ok but not great.

I was there a few weeks ago ( where does/did the bricked up tunnel go?)
And a network scan revealed
Orange F
F -Bouyages Telecom
F SFR
Free
NL KPN
Free

as well as a few text messages saying welcome to the Netherlands, and Welcome to France

14-01-2015, 22:47	#26
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	Quote: Originally Posted by japaul Yes, Free use Orange for a lot of 3G coverage (and all of their 2G). I think the Free coverage map includes the Orange roaming that their own customers can use. For a location map of all French mobile phone masts this can be found here which is always up-to-date: http://www.antennesmobiles.fr/ In the field box "Géolocalisation" you type the name of the French village e.g. 'Calais'

15-01-2015, 08:32	#27
sills Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kent Posts: 196	Quote: Originally Posted by Old Endeavour so now two French 4G services I can find but not one on any network in my own town! Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but Vodafone, O2 and EE all have 4G in Folkestone.

17-01-2015, 00:04	#28
GeorgeMC Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 11	Quote: Originally Posted by oilman I'll bet you are a "If I speak loud enough in english, they will understand me" person! What? They don't all understand English?

17-01-2015, 18:03	#29
jchamier Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: This forum Posts: 3,392	Quote: Originally Posted by sills Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but Vodafone, O2 and EE all have 4G in Folkestone. Poster must be on Three

18-01-2015, 14:13	#30
sills Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kent Posts: 196	I guess so, but he said he couldn't find 4G on any network

26-01-2015, 12:05	#31
Phat Kev Forum Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7	Quote: Originally Posted by squawkBOX Are you sure? If you are in France at the moment, can you reboot and try to manually select Orange France? Three have changed from Bouygues to Orange France (Dec 2014). Free has always been a 2nd roaming partner since Feel At Home started in France. I love you squawkBOX! Yes you were right, after manually searching I was able to use Orange in France and now have even better coverage than the original Bougyes telecom. Thank you so much! Two questions (not to anyone in particular) - why didn't it just switch to Orange automatically? (it does now after the first manual change) and more importantly - why didn't the idiot in the Indian call centre tell me that there was an alternative to Free when I called to complain about their abysmal service instead of spouting drivel about new masts being built?

27-01-2015, 11:56	#32
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	Quote: Originally Posted by Phat Kev I love you squawkBOX! Yes you were right, after manually searching I was able to use Orange in France and now have even better coverage than the original Bougyes telecom. Thank you so much! Two questions (not to anyone in particular) - why didn't it just switch to Orange automatically? (it does now after the first manual change) and more importantly - why didn't the idiot in the Indian call centre tell me that there was an alternative to Free when I called to complain about their abysmal service instead of spouting drivel about new masts being built? My guess would be that your phone may have not updated with the list of 'Forbidden' network partners and thus not making that connection to Orange F, strange but seems to be your case.

18-01-2016, 15:31	#33
squawkBOX Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Central Scotland, UK Posts: 871	Sorry to bring such an old thread back to life, but I can see that Three have removed Orange France as a roaming partner and their site is showing Bouygues and Free as the roaming partners. I find in the areas that I visit, Orange France is superior in so many ways. It looks like I might have to acquire an Orange France PAYG SIM. From my reading around the web, it doesn't look like this is the easiest process in the world. Anyone with any experience of the best way to go about purchasing an Orange France PAYG SIM? I am just interested in data.

18-01-2016, 16:18	#34
JFC Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London Posts: 538	Hope this is not true, I was in calais for Christmas and New Year and Free was awful. Bouygues seemed OKish but not good. Can't remember if I ever connected to orange on my last trip. RE the posts above, this is how far I got across the channel and was still able to use EE. At this point my phone was not able to communicate back to the UK mainland and the French networks kicked in. I could still see EE in Calais though. http://postimg.org/image/fbm23tdpl/

18-01-2016, 17:16	#35
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	Quote: Originally Posted by squawkBOX Sorry to bring such an old thread back to life, but I can see that Three have removed Orange France as a roaming partner and their site is showing Bouygues and Free as the roaming partners. I find in the areas that I visit, Orange France is superior in so many ways. It looks like I might have to acquire an Orange France PAYG SIM. From my reading around the web, it doesn't look like this is the easiest process in the world. Anyone with any experience of the best way to go about purchasing an Orange France PAYG SIM? I am just interested in data. I indeed have an Orange France sim card and also SFR which I purchased from the shop in person, of course they will not speak in English so better brush up your French if you want one don't forget they'll need your passport and may require you to sign a document (not usually with Orange F) On Orange you can buy a 1GB data bundle valid for 14 days for €10.00

18-01-2016, 20:18	#36
finbaar Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3,921	There looks nothing wrong with that coverage map (other than it being of France of course). And if you can use Orange as well then this thread is just another example of miss placed online outrage.

18-01-2016, 21:00	#37
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	"La carte prépayée Mobicarte" = Prepaid Mobicarte More info here: http://boutique.orange.fr/mobile/car...ayee-mobicarte Mobile Internet Bundles with 4G: http://boutique.orange.fr/mobile/rec...internetMobile

18-01-2016, 21:25	#38
DevonBloke Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Totnes, Devon Posts: 6,694	Quote: Originally Posted by plymouthbloke1974 Yes, in the same way that just outside Plymouth there is a beach which I can pick up Orange France 3G, SFR 3G, Bouygues 3G, Sure and Vodafone Jersey but I cannot log onto any of them as my phone isn't as powerful in the other direction. I was at Hallsands near Start Point today and once you get down near the sea there is great 3G/4G that comes across the bay from the water tower mast near Stoke Fleming, Dartmouth which is damn near line of sight albeit 13Km away!. Could be Tor point mast near Slapton but it's way out of sight behind a really high hill. Tor point mast is red square on here. Amazing how the coverage is coming from much further away. http://s11.postimg.org/uilll91mr/screenshot_58.png Anyway, my point is, you are 140Km from Cherbourg here and I can always get all the French networks on a network scan. But yeah, the 40 odd watts of power from the mast easily travels that far. The 1 watt from my phone, well, er, doesn't!

18-01-2016, 21:42	#39
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	Quote: Originally Posted by DevonBloke I was at Hallsands near Start Point today and once you get down near the sea there is great 3G/4G that comes across the bay from the water tower mast near Stoke Fleming, Dartmouth which is damn near line of sight albeit 13Km away!. Could be Tor point mast near Slapton but it's way out of sight behind a really high hill. Tor point mast is red square on here. Amazing how the coverage is coming from much further away. http://s11.postimg.org/uilll91mr/screenshot_58.png Anyway, my point is, you are 140Km from Cherbourg here and I can always get all the French networks on a network scan. But yeah, the 40 odd watts of power from the mast easily travels that far. The 1 watt from my phone, well, er, doesn't! Go to this beautiful part of the world and VOILA! You will be immediately welcomed to France every time you visit, all French networks pick up perfectly including 3G and sucessfully logged onto them all here, not a UK signal in sight https://goo.gl/maps/XMgYqSyvrW12

19-01-2016, 17:50	#40
DavidGover Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 74	Quote: Originally Posted by rasseru16 Go to this beautiful part of the world and VOILA! You will be immediately welcomed to France every time you visit, all French networks pick up perfectly including 3G and sucessfully logged onto them all here, not a UK signal in sight https://goo.gl/maps/XMgYqSyvrW12 That's not strictly true. I was there just the other day and out of curiosity I tried signing on to French networks with a few different sims. Orange and Bougyes were fine, including 3G. Had a 3-4 bar signal too on Orange. SFR I could pick up but not connect FREE I could sometimes pick up but could not connect even once Tests were done with 3 different devices: Blackberry Q5, iPhone 6S and Nokia C2-01. The Nokia was the most reliable, with the Q5 and iPhone being ok but not great.

19-01-2016, 19:15	#41
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	Quote: Originally Posted by DavidGover That's not strictly true. I was there just the other day and out of curiosity I tried signing on to French networks with a few different sims. Orange and Bougyes were fine, including 3G. Had a 3-4 bar signal too on Orange. SFR I could pick up but not connect FREE I could sometimes pick up but could not connect even once Tests were done with 3 different devices: Blackberry Q5, iPhone 6S and Nokia C2-01. The Nokia was the most reliable, with the Q5 and iPhone being ok but not great. Interesting! thanks for the feedback, will be going back to do some more tests myself different atmospherics i suppose but i did manage to use them all including SFR. Any UK networks coming through down there?

25-01-2016, 10:48	#42
Phat Kev Forum Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7	It's quite true. After only 1 year with 'Orange', 3 have reverted back to using 'Bouygues' and 'Free' in France. Whilst the 'Bouygues' coverage is not nearly as good as Orange was it's still a darn sight better than the abysmal 'Free'

25-01-2016, 16:46	#43
lightspeed2398 Forum Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 1,325	Free seems quite interesting. Using 2600 as their main rollout frequency for a while. I often wonder if it would have been better for Three to do that because the penetration would match more with their 3G network then get 10MHz of 800 or something. Can anyone report how it's going Three's rollout? Also rasseru16 that map of the French mobile antennas is great! Wish we could get one like that for Britain.

25-01-2016, 17:12	#44
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	Quote: Originally Posted by lightspeed2398 Free seems quite interesting. Using 2600 as their main rollout frequency for a while. I often wonder if it would have been better for Three to do that because the penetration would match more with their 3G network then get 10MHz of 800 or something. Can anyone report how it's going Three's rollout? Also rasseru16 that map of the French mobile antennas is great! Wish we could get one like that for Britain. Yes that antenna map is truly awesome, sadly we don't get that treatment over here :P

26-01-2016, 13:48	#45
binary Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 636	Quote: Originally Posted by rasseru16 For a location map of all French mobile phone masts this can be found here which is always up-to-date: http://www.antennesmobiles.fr/ In the field box "Géolocalisation" you type the name of the French village e.g. 'Calais' Like others have said, that's great, thanks for pointing us to that website! It looks like mast location is publicly accessible information in France - the data on that site has come from the ANFR, aka L'Agence nationale des fréquences, a government body.

19-02-2016, 22:42	#46
DavidGover Forum Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 74	Quote: Originally Posted by rasseru16 Interesting! thanks for the feedback, will be going back to do some more tests myself different atmospherics i suppose but i did manage to use them all including SFR. Any UK networks coming through down there? It's not easy to get a decent UK signal in the area. Most of the time Orange FR is stronger than all UK networks. I assume they must have decent coverage in France Where exactly were you when you were able to use all networks?

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20-02-2016, 10:50	#47
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	Quote: Originally Posted by DavidGover It's not easy to get a decent UK signal in the area. Most of the time Orange FR is stronger than all UK networks. I assume they must have decent coverage in France Where exactly were you when you were able to use all networks? I was on the bay itself when all the networks were working

22-06-2016, 17:57	#48
squawkBOX Forum Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Central Scotland, UK Posts: 871	Sorry to raise an old thread, but a quick check on Three's roaming agreements show that they've got Orange France back again! Their partnership seems to be on, then off, then on, then off... Screenshot: http://imgur.com/Yj1I29N I'll still be taking a Tesco Mobile SIM to France with me this summer though... Handy to know I'll get my calls / SMS on Orange France though on a backup mobile!

22-06-2016, 21:55	#49
rasseru16 Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Suffolk, East Anglia Posts: 666	Quote: Originally Posted by squawkBOX Sorry to raise an old thread, but a quick check on Three's roaming agreements show that they've got Orange France back again! Their partnership seems to be on, then off, then on, then off... Screenshot: http://imgur.com/Yj1I29N I'll still be taking a Tesco Mobile SIM to France with me this summer though... Handy to know I'll get my calls / SMS on Orange France though on a backup mobile! To be fair, ive noticed the recent agreement with 3 and Orange France too... My best guess its because of the Euro 2016 Football, it will probably end after.

22-06-2016, 23:35	#50
Richard_T Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: East Midlands Posts: 3,842	Quote: Originally Posted by DavidGover That's not strictly true. I was there just the other day and out of curiosity I tried signing on to French networks with a few different sims. Orange and Bougyes were fine, including 3G. Had a 3-4 bar signal too on Orange. SFR I could pick up but not connect FREE I could sometimes pick up but could not connect even once Tests were done with 3 different devices: Blackberry Q5, iPhone 6S and Nokia C2-01. The Nokia was the most reliable, with the Q5 and iPhone being ok but not great. I was there a few weeks ago ( where does/did the bricked up tunnel go?) And a network scan revealed Orange F F -Bouyages Telecom F SFR Free NL KPN Free as well as a few text messages saying welcome to the Netherlands, and Welcome to France