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what are people current views on the three network i was with them years ago and they were fine but some currently say there coverage is bad?
3 Phone Network review
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Reviews are individual to the local experience of a person and their habbits. You should not put weight into another review of signal level unless they follow your every move. From a technical point of view they support all high end standards including dualc channel HSPA and will soon support LTE which puts them on par with their (non LTE) rivals.
My view is in here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18503468
I'd certainly recommend three for my area, as they've got a great signal everywhere.
Their coverage checker showed possible problems in a few of the areas where it had actually been a very good signal with their HSPDA. And compared to o2 who was similar to their coverage check, had pretty poor signal compared to three's, was also a lot slower for their internet.
Their coverage checker showed possible problems in a few of the areas where it had actually been a very good signal with their HSPDA. And compared to o2 who was similar to their coverage check, had pretty poor signal compared to three's, was also a lot slower for their internet.
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Sorry to hop in on this, I'm looking at 3 mobile and live in Stotfold, Bedfordshire. Anyone live near here and care to comment?
Thanks
It does look patchy from the Map, if you go on a two year contract three may offer you a signal booster for free which significantly improves indoor signal.
They've been great for me, I get decent 3G coverage almost everywhere around here including fairly rural locations. Far better than O2, who could barely seem to provide adequate 2G coverage with 3G limited to town centres/cities.
O2 were awful in my experience anyway though, even when I was living down south the speeds were always poor, 3G was unreliable (websites would just stop loading and you'd have to disconnect and reconnect) and almost every month, the 3G mast near where I worked would go down for a week at a time and GPRS simply wouldn't load anything. Haven't had any such issues with 3.
O2 were awful in my experience anyway though, even when I was living down south the speeds were always poor, 3G was unreliable (websites would just stop loading and you'd have to disconnect and reconnect) and almost every month, the 3G mast near where I worked would go down for a week at a time and GPRS simply wouldn't load anything. Haven't had any such issues with 3.
Is there any way I can get a cheap sim so I could test the coverage at home and work etc?
I did that, just requested a free PAYG one from their website and then phoned them up and asked to get the minimum amount of credit needed to test the internet out, they were more than happy to oblige.
I'll do that then
Thanks
EDIT: Just spoke to my local store, £1 for the sim and £10 credit will have 100mins, 2000 sms and some data so I can test at work and at home over the next few days....
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I've been with Three since about November.
At home and work I get about 1-2 bars signal but I still get around 3Mb/s.
At home if I move to the back of my house I lose signal.
I have also found the odd other place where I don't get any signal.
On the most part the signal issues I get were the same on my old network (t-mobile).
I'm in a particularly bad area for all mobile signal tbh.
At home and work I get about 1-2 bars signal but I still get around 3Mb/s.
At home if I move to the back of my house I lose signal.
I have also found the odd other place where I don't get any signal.
On the most part the signal issues I get were the same on my old network (t-mobile).
I'm in a particularly bad area for all mobile signal tbh.
Not bad, although I think it only cost me half that when I phoned up to put credit on.
Not bad, although I think it only cost me half that when I phoned up to put credit on.
I shall haggle when I get down there
They wanted the £1 and £10 minimum top up so I walked out, I just ordered a free sim online will call them when it arrives
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