T-Mobile & Orange Sharing

[Lozza]

T-Mobile & Orange are now sharing signals so you may be able to get a better mobile phone reception (in UK).

No extra cost.. but possibly better coverage.

T-Mobile users sign up http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/share/

Orange users sign up https://kareena.orange.co.uk/share/

[Fayshun]

My Orange signal still sucks at home :(

[BBx]

O_o oooooooooo

It will still suck for me. Which I find incredible as I live in London Village.

BB x

[Tak]

Be aware the first time your phone switches, you get a text telling you its done it (when i phoned up about moving my mobile number the guy read the text out to me; he wasn't all that impressed because he had received it at 3am and it woke him up :p

[Psymonkee]

Now if we could just make all operators share the network and resell airtime?

*pipe dream*

[Von Smallhausen]

Hope this doesn't affect the friends and family tariff that I have.

[Blackstar]

It shouldn't do Von. Thats just a billing thing rather than anything else. If it did then I would be phoning them up for a complaint marathon. Hopefully this should help me get signal in our flat because currently its balls.

[Fayshun]

It's not improved my signal at Janet's mums much. Mind you, one bar is better than no bars I guess...

[Kitten]

I left orange as I couldn't get even a text signal in our house. O2 on t'other hand is marvellous!

[G|mp]

My Orange signal is still ****e :/

Although it may be more to do with the HTC Hero I have, I have never seemed to have a decent signal in the 12 months I've had it.

I'm going to feel dirt for saying this but it's the iphone next me thinks :/

[Mark]

... which of course has its own collection of signal woes.

Or, at least, some of them do.

[IainB]

Hope this doesn't affect the friends and family tariff that I have.

100% wont effect your F&R, we just see Orange CDRs as being T-Mobile traffic (now we are all one big happy company...hmm ;) ) so everything will carry on as normal

[Desmo]

My Orange signal is still ****e :/

Although it may be more to do with the HTC Hero I have
I bet it's more to do with Orange. I was with them for a little while.....never again for me.

[Feek]

My Orange signal is still ****e :/

My Orange signal still sucks at home :(

Of course, there's no reason it would have changed. What's been done won't improve the signal of either individual network but it means that if your phone detects a stronger signal from the other network then it'll switch to that instead.

[G|mp]

I bet it's more to do with Orange. I was with them for a little while.....never again for me.

My Mrs has a great Orange signal and I never had any problems with other handsets :/

Of course, there's no reason it would have changed. What's been done won't improve the signal of either individual network but it means that if your phone detects a stronger signal from the other network then it'll switch to that instead.

I'll rephrase then: My T-Mobile/Orange signal is still ****e :D

[G|mp]

... which of course has its own collection of signal woes.

Or, at least, some of them do.

I thought that was only if you held the phone like a monkey?

[LeperousDust]

It's a funny world, orange get slated on here and south, and tbh i've never been with them, but Deb's is with orange and when we last went into the middle of nowhere (Galloway forrest park - dark sky park...) ironically she could get signal perfectly and my o2 and t-mobile sims where doing nout!

I don't know but this is how i sum the operaters up:

3: Best 3g signal in the UK, Used to use orange 2g now uses t-mobile i think (has also played with o2 though?)
Orange: Expensive but seems to be aimed at business' and that made me assume decent coverage for a cost, maybe not, i've never been with them. A decent set of 3g/2g?
Vodafone: Similar boat to orange for me... Middle ground men, not good at either but dependable and not too bad, a business player again?
o2: Probably the ****test 3g network the UK has seen, strange network usage (no real delivery reports?) although 2g is excellent, so if you want a signal its great, but the internet is DOG slow and 3g coverage is beyond poor, maybe due to the "iphone efect" but thats no excuse.
T-Mobile: Apparently a fairly terrible 2g signal, but they are teaming up with orange so hopefully this should seem to remedy things, although it depends how much they crossover mast wise i guess. T-mobile have in my experience the 2nd best 3g network in the country (behind 3). When you get 3g signal you get 3g speeds, and were talking real hsdpa 7.2, not o2's 5.x, makes a massive difference. And t-mobile also semi share 3g networks with 3, which is also probably why theyre both so good....

I dont know how true all that above is, but thats from reading around my my usage or o2/voda/t-mob over the years

[Blighter]

^^ I've never had an issue with O2's signal - whether that is Northampton, Gravesend, Maidstone, London, or the Lakes!

[LeperousDust]

As i said the signal is fine, i get signal everywhere for the most part as in 2g/3g . Internet on the other hand is famously over subscribed and oversold and generally rubbish. As i said the "iphone effect" but that's no excuse. I was with tmobile before o2 and squarely compared them, and i honestly can tell you tmob give a much faster experience, in scotland and north england. But tmob suffer for 2g coverage no doubt, which is why they're teaming up with orange obviously. Indoor coverage with tmob is famously terrible :)

[semi-pro waster]

Well I've signed up for the link cheers, doubt it'll make too much difference as my T-Mobile signal in this area varies from fine to non-existent at the drop of a hat but it doesn't seem likely to do any harm either.