T-Mobile network down?
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They better be because my signal has been nothing short of awful the last few weeks.
after speaking to a few mates and customers, there t mobile signals have also been degraded over the last 3-4 weeks.
People on orange havnt noticed anything.
But places i always go used to have full signal i now struggle to get 1 bar
People on orange havnt noticed anything.
But places i always go used to have full signal i now struggle to get 1 bar
Well I was in Belfast this evening which should have full signal, but I could only connect to "T-mobile Orange", trying to force T-Mobile in Androids network settings just gives me the message that my sim card is unable to connect or rejects the connection or some such.
I think it must be a bad sim card or something. Gonna ring customer services tomorrow and request a new one.
I think it must be a bad sim card or something. Gonna ring customer services tomorrow and request a new one.
Don't do this, let your phone decide in all cases. You manually setting the network override will achieve close to zero and in most cases will be the wrong thing to do.
Ok I won't do it anymore.
Just annoying because when I search for available networks, both "T-Mobile" and "T-Mobile Orange" are on the list, but it keeps connecting to just "T-Mobile Orange", further limiting my ability to connect to 3G speeds.
Hmmm now lets think about this. Do the network engineers:
A: Design the system for maximum connectivity so that people can use their phones to the best of their ability thus making the networks more revenue by them recieving calls, using data (even if it is 2G) or....
B: Obviously screw the customers from using the faster network so that they have to work harder to use their phone.
If it's selecting the secondary network over the primary then it believes the conditions of the primary will not be able to match the throughput of the secondary and thus switches. If you believe this is wrong move into airplane mode and back out of it again so that network registration can take place again. The system is designed for every SIM to love their home network beyond belief and they will always want to be on it unless times are dire and they are forced for it not to be.
Connecting at low speed 3G is nearly always worse than a decent 2G/EDGE link.
A: Design the system for maximum connectivity so that people can use their phones to the best of their ability thus making the networks more revenue by them recieving calls, using data (even if it is 2G) or....
B: Obviously screw the customers from using the faster network so that they have to work harder to use their phone.
If it's selecting the secondary network over the primary then it believes the conditions of the primary will not be able to match the throughput of the secondary and thus switches. If you believe this is wrong move into airplane mode and back out of it again so that network registration can take place again. The system is designed for every SIM to love their home network beyond belief and they will always want to be on it unless times are dire and they are forced for it not to be.
Connecting at low speed 3G is nearly always worse than a decent 2G/EDGE link.
Problem is it isn't a poor 3G link. This is the city centre of Belfast which always has full HSDPA on all networks I have seen.
It shouldnt be connecting to "T-Mobile Orange" if there is a normal "T-Mobile" signal available. The whole point of the merger is so that areas that don't have a T-Mobile signal can connect to Oranges network. The city centre and surrounding areas does have a T-Mobile signal, so why does it not connect to it.
If the network can give you a 3G signal, it will. No way in hell would they shove you on to a 2G signal if they didn't need to (which they don't in this case).
It shouldnt be connecting to "T-Mobile Orange" if there is a normal "T-Mobile" signal available. The whole point of the merger is so that areas that don't have a T-Mobile signal can connect to Oranges network. The city centre and surrounding areas does have a T-Mobile signal, so why does it not connect to it.
If the network can give you a 3G signal, it will. No way in hell would they shove you on to a 2G signal if they didn't need to (which they don't in this case).
Then it's possible your SIM or Handset or the combo of the two have a fault (it's known on some) but I assure you that how I roughly explained it is how it's programmed to work. My workmate designed it. If you have time you could call 150 and describe the issue, they would probably be able to help you (it might be possible to be removed from the RAN share too but the deadline might be passed - I'd do this if possible for you due to your issues).
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