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Join Date: Jul 2006
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My Vodafone signal sucks!
It's so bad I can't believe it to be a Vodafone problem. So help me out here Vodafone users - does anyone else have reception problems? Mine comes and goes constantly. In my house I have NO SIGNAL at all. O2, T-Mobile and 3 are all perfect in my house.
Could it be my Nokia N80 phone perhaps? I don't know a single person who uses Vodafone to do a comparison check. Bummer. |
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Well to be honest i dont know what people like that much about vodafone. I know that the boast that they have a good coverage of the UK, but whenever i look at my mates phone its always 2-3 bars which is what vodafone must call 'acceptable coverage!'
Maybe theres a mast problem in your area? Have you tried phoning them about your problem? |
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Originally Posted by nockie3
Well to be honest i dont know what people like that much about vodafone. I know that the boast that they have a good coverage of the UK, but whenever i look at my mates phone its always 2-3 bars which is what vodafone must call 'acceptable coverage!'
Maybe theres a mast problem in your area? Have you tried phoning them about your problem? |
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I have probs too. My dad has got a philips savvy 0n O2, full signal everywhere.
My shiny Nokia on Vodafone struggles to keep up with it. |
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Originally Posted by mikw
I have probs too. My dad has got a philips savvy 0n O2, full signal everywhere.
My shiny Nokia on Vodafone struggles to keep up with it. |
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Originally Posted by Mr Red
Oh no that's bad news mik. It would appear I've just signed an 18 month contract with a bum network. Ah well, you live and learn. My first and last with Vodafone then.
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I was on vodafone for 5 months and even in the middle of London I never got full signal.
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My mate has a crap 3g signal! im on t-mobile and mine is sooo much better than him.
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i've been on Vodafone 8yrs, never had a problem with signal.
Mine's generally always full. Using a K750i. |
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Originally Posted by Mr Red
Oh no that's bad news mik. It would appear I've just signed an 18 month contract with a bum network. Ah well, you live and learn. My first and last with Vodafone then.
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Originally Posted by ryanwilliams479
I was on vodafone for 5 months and even in the middle of London I never got full signal.
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Originally Posted by ryanwilliams479
I was on vodafone for 5 months and even in the middle of London I never got full signal.
I was speaking to a guy today who works just off the old A13 in Dagenham who I know has been on Vodafone for years (company supplied), so's had quite a few handsets and I asked him what his signal was like - he told me he has always has a full signal (except when he is under that flyover) in and around Dagenham. He did add that where he lives (Leigh on Sea), he got a reduced signal but could still make calls no problem. I would be surprised that Vodafone do not have a good signal over central London - I remember the emergency services said their preferred suppliers in London are Vodafone & O2. Edit: oh I see you have amended your location - I'm sure it said Dagenham yesterday, hence my asking this guy |
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Vodafone do have good coverage over central London.
Emergency services should be using o2 AirWave by now. |
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Originally Posted by dawson
Now that's interesting.
I was speaking to a guy today who works just off the old A13 in Dagenham who I know has been on Vodafone for years (company supplied), so's had quite a few handsets and I asked him what his signal was like - he told me he has always has a full signal (except when he is under that flyover) in and around Dagenham. He did add that where he lives (Leigh on Sea), he got a reduced signal but could still make calls no problem. I would be surprised that Vodafone do not have a good signal over central London - I remember the emergency services said their preferred suppliers in London are Vodafone & O2. Edit: oh I see you have amended your location - I'm sure it said Dagenham yesterday, hence my asking this guy |
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I too have had Vodaphone a number of years analogue and digital and travelled a bit about the country and it very rarely I have found a place where a signal is not satisfactory especially in the last two or three years. True I lose the signal inside buildings sometimes but outside it is no problem.
My son has the same model phone a Nokia, on Virgin, and he is constantly getting no signal at various locations, it is nowhere near as good a signal coverage. |
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Originally Posted by Mr Red
It's so bad I can't believe it to be a Vodafone problem. So help me out here Vodafone users - does anyone else have reception problems? Mine comes and goes constantly. In my house I have NO SIGNAL at all. O2, T-Mobile and 3 are all perfect in my house.
Could it be my Nokia N80 phone perhaps? I don't know a single person who uses Vodafone to do a comparison check. Bummer. |
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I have been on Vodafone for almost 4 years, as have my mum and sister, we've never had any trouble with signal either. I'm almost always on full signal and have never had a dropped call.
One thing I tend to experience abroad is my phone changing from the Local vodafone network to another local network, meaning I sometimes get charged more for calls. This happened a lot when I was in Italy last year. |
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You can always use SiteFinder "www.sitefinder.radio.gov.uk" and see where the nearest Vodafone base is? Could help you!
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I was on Orange for about 5 years, and had to leave due to bad signal quality. Before I left Orange, I tried a number of networks. As I travel around alot throughout the UK and Europe I needed a network which gave me the best overall quality.
I tried O2, and was very unimpressed, tried "3" and although signal was ok locally, it varied too much around the country. So, I decided to go to a Vodafone contract just over a year ago, and I have to say it gives me a signal where-ever I go, never has any problems locally, or through my travels around Wales and Europe. As a back-up, I do keep a Virgin PAYG sim in my phone which I do change if the Vodafone network ever goes down (thankfully not gone down in my area in the time I have had it, unlike Orange which always had problems - and I've only ever used the Virgin SIM to text from Europe). Mark
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The strength of signal doesn't matter, 2 bars is as good as full signal on digital because of the 'digital cliff' I believe they call it, but if it's dropping calls a lot then that's bad. Some handsets are much better than others, it's amazing the differnce between some brands / designs. I think the handset adjusts it's own tx power depending on the strength of the signal from the mast, so a good handset should make a differnce.
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Originally Posted by ryanwilliams479
It is Dagenham...
Because it's just struck me - Dagenham isn't in Essex is it?
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