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Petition to get Totnes Vodafone 3G and 4G
https://www.change.org/p/vodafone-vodafone-to-introduce-3g-4g-connectivity-to-totnes-south-devon?recruiter=10560249&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
Please sign up guys if we can get Vodafone and Ctil to wake up and smell the Antennas maybe other places of interest can be targeted |
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Not another petition, it's getting a bit silly now, is this the same one that was posted last week or a different one?
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They said they'll cover Totnes with 3G and 4G.... You don't need to keep badgering them every 5 years...
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Problem is that the people of Totnes have given up on VOD altogether. They have promised coverage so many times and then un-promised it that nobody is particularly interested any more. Even the EDGE that is there just doesn't work. O2 manage a sort of reliable 3G service but VOD offer voice only. In 2016.
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Problem is that the people of Totnes have given up on VOD altogether. They have promised coverage so many times and then un-promised it that nobody is particularly interested any more. Even the EDGE that is there just doesn't work. O2 manage a sort of reliable 3G service but VOD offer voice only. In 2016.
I mean, that's totally correct - the whole point of a mobile network is to get a good mobile service in as many areas as possible. Not just in a few areas where most people live (remember, people do travel!). O2 have 3G in Totnes; though I can't remember what frequency it's on, and chances are it's using fairydust for it's backhaul. ![]() Vodafone can't even manage 3G - leaving the users there on EDGE. Why?! EDGE is no good whatsoever in terms of data! At least EE have shown Vodafone how to do things properly - i.e. roll out 3G and 4G to every mast! ![]() As the saying goes, I`ll only believe it when I actually see it.
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I remember DevonBloke making a post about Totnes and Vodafone on the EE thread - he said that "it's nearly 16 years after the 3G auctions" and that "most of Devon has no 3G".
I mean, that's totally correct - the whole point of a mobile network is to get a good mobile service in as many areas as possible. Not just in a few areas where most people live (remember, people do travel!). ... (Or alternatively, you could see it helping to pay for one of our spectacularly successful foreign military adventures...) |
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I remember DevonBloke making a post about Totnes and Vodafone on the EE thread - he said that "it's nearly 16 years after the 3G auctions" and that "most of Devon has no 3G".
I mean, that's totally correct - the whole point of a mobile network is to get a good mobile service in as many areas as possible. Not just in a few areas where most people live (remember, people do travel!). O2 have 3G in Totnes; though I can't remember what frequency it's on, and chances are it's using fairydust for it's backhaul. ![]() Vodafone can't even manage 3G - leaving the users there on EDGE. Why?! EDGE is no good whatsoever in terms of data! At least EE have shown Vodafone how to do things properly - i.e. roll out 3G and 4G to every mast! ![]() As the saying goes, I`ll only believe it when I actually see it. ![]() It's not a huge town but the fact that VOD have NO data service at all is a joke in 2016. An absolute joke. I know they are doing things now but they should be the ones with the purple puppet, not 3 who actually tried with 3G. |
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Surely the best way for Voda to sit up and listen is for their customers to leave?
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Surely the best way for Voda to sit up and listen is for their customers to leave?
The problem seems to be that non technical people don't realise the difference. I remember talking to an O2 customer in 2010 who was complaining 3G was slow and hardly worked - and I showed them my T-Mobile phone, and speed tests of 10mbps and higher. They were convinced 3G was the same and the network name was just a 'price plan' thing. Not many people understand this technology - and the marketing depts of EE and Three don't go after the O2/Vodafone weaknesses as there are plenty of weak spots on EE and Three as well. |
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O2 is 3G900 but it does sort of work unlike other areas like Ashburton or Newton Abbot where you get 5 bars but zero data. VOD is edge but it doesn't work at all and I mean at all. I used to trade stocks from a minibus in a lay by on Orange GPRS with a 6310i and it worked. So you should get something from EDGE. Check the VOD forum, there are a few threads about EDGE in Totnes.
It's not a huge town but the fact that VOD have NO data service at all is a joke in 2016. An absolute joke. I know they are doing things now but they should be the ones with the purple puppet, not 3 who actually tried with 3G. |
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Actually I think O2 3G in Totnes is 2100 (from the Totnes Down Hill Arqiva TV relay mast).
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https://www.change.org/p/vodafone-vodafone-to-introduce-3g-4g-connectivity-to-totnes-south-devon?recruiter=10560249&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
Please sign up guys if we can get Vodafone and Ctil to wake up and smell the Antennas maybe other places of interest can be targeted The problem with that is you are under the misapprehension that Vodafone actually care about what you (and others) think of them. You think if they were bothered they would have neglected the coverage for over a decade or not done something about the absolute abysmal customer services they have offered for longer than that's. |
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I see we are up to 13 supporters
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I really cant help but think you should just change to another network?
if o2 have coverage go to o2
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I really cant help but think you should just change to another network?
if o2 have coverage go to o2 ![]() |
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lol
The problem with that is you are under the misapprehension that Vodafone actually care about what you (and others) think of them. You think if they were bothered they would have neglected the coverage for over a decade or not done something about the absolute abysmal customer services they have offered for longer than that's. Vodafone's 2G (yes, 2G) coverage here is shocking, let alone 3G, and as for 4G - ha! They've been lying about it already, so make of that what you will. Even O2 are coughing up some £ now - for the first time since 2007 (which is about the last time VF did anything here too) so, um, yeah. With that in mind, Vodafone, and the "network issue" it's currently having (and O2 is not, before anyone says CTIL), looks even worse than ever in comparison to EE (generous helpings of 4/3/2G) Three (3G and 4G800) and O2 (a mast ignored since ~2004 seems to have had both 3G2100 and 3G900 added to it, which has made quite some difference). Vodafone's 'planned coverage' promises (in effect) a new mast with 3G within the next 3 months here - can't say I'm holding my breath. In the meantime it continues to be night and day between Three/EE and the other two, although as I say - O2 look like they are trying now although O2's default mode is still alive and well; see some greenery = collapse to GPRS.Anyway... I'm not going to mention Vodafone Customer Service, although I always found if you got through to Scotland you'd be fine - get through to anywhere else, you're stuffed. |
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Anyway... I'm not going to mention Vodafone Customer Service, although I always found if you got through to Scotland you'd be fine - get through to anywhere else, you're stuffed.
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These petitions don't tend to achieve much. There are plenty of places up here that are still not covered by any network, with no plans to fill the gaps.
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Quite.
Vodafone's 2G (yes, 2G) coverage here is shocking, let alone 3G, and as for 4G - ha! They've been lying about it already, so make of that what you will. Even O2 are coughing up some £ now - for the first time since 2007 (which is about the last time VF did anything here too) so, um, yeah. Vodafone's 'planned coverage' promises (in effect) a new mast with 3G within the next 3 months here - can't say I'm holding my breath |
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although O2's default mode is still alive and well; see some greenery = collapse to GPRS.