T-Mobile / Orange Network share just enabled

On the subject of coverage, I was informed by a t-mobile member of staff who was quite adamant that my HTC desire on £35 contract has network limit of 746Kbps. Out and about the fastest recorded speed being 300kbps which is just about ok to load webpages. I was under the impression that we where talking Mbps in the hspda world not Kbps :mad: Im lucky most days to get 40 or 50 maybe kbps while roaming so I am not that impressed with t-mobile coming from orange and with the merger enabled I connected only to edge which gave around 0.03mbps Max 2day in good signal area's. :(
 
On my £25 t-mobile contract I get the following. I've seen it both faster and slower but just ran the test once to show you that it shouldn't be restricted to 746kbps. 300kbps sounds like you are stuck on simple web 'n' walk rather than web 'n' walk plus that gives speeds greater than 360kbps. Did you get your phone direct from t-mobile or from a third party?

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EDIT: May have mis-understood. Are you with T-Mobile or Orange? If you are with Orange and only connecting to T-Mobile when connection is bad then it has been setup for 2G use only really so expect slow data speeds.
 
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Hi and thanks, I ordered my phone direct from tmobile online, I suspected I was on the basic taffif but customer service are clueless and best answer was to remove the battery and sim..... and that everything looks fine on my account :(
 
I agree that CS are clueless. Give tech support a call instead. Tell them you're disappointed with the speeds and that you should be getting faster. They may upgrade you as you got your phone direct. I got mine from a third party and still got upgraded but that was back in April and I've heard they've clamped down on it now.
 
Does anyone know whether Virgin Mobile will ever feel the effects of this? I know they use the T-Mobile network so wonder if the merge will expand it as a whole.
 
i just got my email form orange telling me i can sign up.

entered my details and just waiting for the txt to confirm.

ironically i probably wont get it for a while as i have no orange signal :rolleyes:
 
It verks!

I noticed the email from Orange last night and activated things... replied to the text etc. By the morning I had a text saying changes were made :)

I never get Orange reception at work... but today I did... phone connected to T-mobile Orange and it worked great!

I only get G when using it, but it does work... things might change soon :)
 
i had the text saying it was done but my phone just says my sim isn't registered on the t-mobile network. will try in the morning.
 
Todge said:
i had the text saying it was done but my phone just says my sim isn't registered on the t-mobile network. will try in the morning.
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You can't manually connect to t-mobile if thats what you're doing, you have to leave the phone on auto and let it select which carrier to use.
 
DIABLO said:
You can't manually connect to t-mobile if thats what you're doing, you have to leave the phone on auto and let it select which carrier to use.
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ah that might be why then. A shame since i get no orange signal at all in my house or at work so its going to be on tmobile most of the time anyway.
 
I'm with T-Mobile, and I usually get pretty good signal anyway, but if this will make it better then great.

Just to be 100%: turning on Data Roaming in the UK will NOT cause me to be charged lots of money.
 
DIABLO said:
You can't manually connect to t-mobile if thats what you're doing, you have to leave the phone on auto and let it select which carrier to use.
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I got a text last night saying to turn my phone on and off to allow it to connect to t-mobile. Now when I search for networks manually I have the option of "Orange" or "Orange T-Mobile" I can select the latter and it stays on that fine. You don't have to leave it on auto though obviously that would be better to get the best of both worlds.

I assume everyone else has also found that data speeds on the "other" network are not as fast as normal?

I just got 0.03Mbps down and 0.03 up on the "Orange T-Mobile" compared to 1.89 down and 0.11 up on "Orange".

Am I also right in thinking that it wont be able to switch networks mid call. So if you are on an orange cell and go out of range it wont be able to get onto a t-mobile one mid call?
 
Right, I work for The fruitier company and here's how it works:

If you're on your host network you have 2/3g networks (so everything upto HSDPA)
If you're on the visitor network you only have 2g (which limits you to gprs)
If you're on a call on one you can not switch networks mid call (really big signalling problem sorry chaps)

Next year we will enable 3G roaming, somewhere after that we might enable session handover between networks but this is a huge ballache so I dunno what's happening with it yet.
 
I have an Orange branded HTC Desire running Android 2.2 (Orange update) but when I do a manual network selection, I only see Orange. And I've yet to see it switch to T-Mobile, even in weak signal areas. Am I missing something?
 
Howard said:
I have an Orange branded HTC Desire running Android 2.2 (Orange update) but when I do a manual network selection, I only see Orange. And I've yet to see it switch to T-Mobile, even in weak signal areas. Am I missing something?
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Have you had the "turn your phone off and on" text from orange yet?
 
Howard said:
I have an Orange branded HTC Desire running Android 2.2 (Orange update) but when I do a manual network selection, I only see Orange. And I've yet to see it switch to T-Mobile, even in weak signal areas. Am I missing something?
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Your update might have failed. (AFAIK) your SIM is basically reprogrammed to accept Orange and T-mo as the same telco thus you should have a new entry "Orange t-mobile". Call up 150 and I'm sure they will be happy to help.

It won't switch in weak signal areas so you guys know afaik, it switches basically below a really low level / no signal at all. The loss of 3G connectivity for smartphones is a pretty big downer so I believe in the current design it tries to hold on as long as possible as crap 3g is still a lot better than good gprs :)
 
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