EE first but Vodafone last in mobile phone tests

biron_w said:
Sounds about right.
I took out a contract with TalkTalk which uses Vodafone. It was only £3.75 a month so it seemed decent. Yet I don't get 3G anywhere around where I live, I only get EDGE.
Vodafone are utterly rubbish unless you live near a city centre.
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city centres on vodafone = overloaded network
 
You can sit in pizza express in Marlborough and see the Vodafone shop. You can then look down at your Vodafone phone and see no signal :-O

Yes they have a shop in a town with rubbish coverage.
 
mtwiscool said:
city centres on vodafone = overloaded network
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I've noticed this in Cambridge & Milton Keynes.

The latter on a saturday only works in the evening.

Ironically, the best part of Vodafone for me was Eurotraveller. In Italy, (Florence, Pisa & Venice) I was getting H & H+ pretty much all the time. Including along high speed train tunnels and out in the countryside.
 
Amos91 said:
Ironically, the best part of Vodafone for me was Eurotraveller. In Italy, (Florence, Pisa & Venice) I was getting H & H+ pretty much all the time. Including along high speed train tunnels and out in the countryside.
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yeah I use that a lot too as I spend about half my time in europe for work - £3 a day soon adds up though...
 
I've just moved from O2 to EE with no regrets. I receive a full 4G signal on EE in Bath town centre and had to put up with GRPS/EDGE on O2. Not supplying 3G/4G coverage in any town centre is just diabolical.
 
I'm on EE and while it's very fast it can be patchy.

I'll be moving to 3 when my contract is up as their 3G is now brilliant so expect their 4G to be good too, plus unlimited data.

But for those bitching about EE 4G costs... no one actually pays the advertised costs do they? I pay £23 for 2GB!

It's down at the moment though!!!
 
Not sure about the others, but Vodafone certainly belong at the bottom of the list.. Absolutely rubbish network, and in fact I left them yesterday, 2 months early, I'd had enough of them and couldnt wait to return to a network where I actually get a reception if I travel outside of the city centre.
 
Scope said:
Outside City Centres = no network
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Don't think I get Vodafone here either.

O2 and Vodafone are dire.
EE have the advantage due to getting 4G first and the merger but prices are horrendou. We will give you super fast iInternet.. But you an only watch half a film.. Buy it will be twice as quick!

3 are so good. Wasn't so good when I first moved but I almost never see no signal when driving around. But is often at 1 bar.
Price is unbeatable. Speeds are decent and they will be the first network where I can use 4G (Peterborough work)
 
Psycho Sonny said:
weren't O2 and vodafone supposed to be teaming up like orange and t mobile have to make EE? or was that all a rumour?
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Yes you are quite right.. By the end of 2015 the plan if for O2 and Vodafone to share the masts across UK.. Quite whats in it for O2 I am not sure about, but I think Vodafone will benefit hugely.
 
Vodafone is the best here (West west-midlands) and mid-wales.

That linked report is totally unrepresentative of coverage:

Neither did the study offer details about network coverage
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which for those of us with signal problems regardless of the network, is the most important lol

Reminds me of a Which survey (ie total media marketing crap & totally biased).
 
Couldn't agree more with those figures. I had been with Vodafone for about 5 years until I ditched them last year. Now with 3 who are brilliant, there speeds are good, and the coverage around the north east anyway is very good. My friends are on O2 and moan a lot about poor signal, and people at work get no signal at all with O2 in the office, but I have full signal with 3.
 
I've had the opposite experience, was with T-mobile and they where ok, data was a bit **** but my main gripe was calls dropping all the time, this was during the time they merged with EE.

Switched to Three, and life was good, data speeds where insane, unlimited data really changed how I used my phone but throughout 2013 Three went to **** in London. To the point where I had no network almost any time I went indoors. The speeds went from 15mb to 1mb if I was lucky, typically hovering around 300kb.

Now I'm on Vodafone and its amazing, I get 4G coverage all over London, typical 30mb+, Data caps suck but I have 8GB, so as long as I keep an eye on things I'm ok. Contract is coming too an end soon. Might be looking at EE to get a phone on 20GB plan and sell the phone off if it works out to a decent price.
 
Vodafone 4g in london is phenomenal now, and I don't understand the complaints about voda outside of city centres; they have the best individual 2g network, I believe.
 
I use a chip n pin machine at work that's connected to the vodaphone network. Needless to say the coverage is lousy.
 
NeoVo said:
EDIT: oh and their support don't have the best rep, but how often do you need to contact your provider for support (particularly when most of their offering are truely unlimited)
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I had reason to email them for something a while back, I forget the reason now but 2 hours after I sent the email I got a text stating that someone had tried to ask for information about my account and could I call them ASAP.
Worried I called them only to find out that because I use a shortened version of my name daily, my emails go out tagged with my shortened name. example Robert > Rob (my real name + short name is even more obvious)

I've had to add short-name me as a 2nd authorised user :rolleyes:
 
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