T-Mobile / Orange Network share just enabled

I now manually switch it to orange t-mobile at work & home as there is rarely any signal as soon as I move the phone and I don't need a data connection anyway. Same at work.
 
Get full signal down in Dereham now where I'd occasionally get blackspots. Result.
 
TUNA FISH said:
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.
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Yeah, they will eventually. In the long term there will only be one physical network, on which many retail brands (Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin etc.) will operate. Technically, Orange and T-Mobile are already 'just' retail brands with no physical network. The network is owned/run by the new Everything Everywhere France Telecom / Deutsche Telekom joint venture.

Once the networks are fully connected then sites start getting taken down to reduce the site portfolio and costs. Virgin will be accessing all infrastructure by then. At the moment the 'joint' coverage is as good as it'll be. In the future, it will deteriorate a bit as 'duplicate' sites are removed.
 
Cant help wondering how much better coverage would have been if they all used the same network in the first place.
 
Hi All,

I've been waiting for this for a while - great news. I was a long time orange customer, switched to t-mob for their generous data packages, but the coverage in my house isn't great. It's usable, but a solid orange 2g signal to fall back on for calling/texting is a welcome benefit. I'm in a slightly unusual situation though....

My phone is an HTC HD2, bought sim free from mobiles.co.uk with a T-Mobile contract. However, I quickly lost patience with winmo 6.5. So, now i'm running an android rom off the micro SD card. It's all perfectly stable and works perfectly well. Naturally i was a little nervous i'd have trouble with the new roaming thing, but gave it a try anyway. Signed up, got the text, replied with 'YES' and received the confirmation back. So far, so good.

However, i'm not sure it's working, frankly. My t-mob reception is a bit strange and always has been, even in the winmo days. If i leave me phone sat on a desk or table, it can be up to 2 bars 3g/hsdpa. However, when i pick it up, it can drop to 1 or 2 bars 2g, or drop signal all together. So far, I haven't really noticed a boost in signal. I have a couple of questions:

1) How do i know it's working? Just a better signal?

2) What are the criteria for switching? Total signal loss? Or just poor signal?

I've set data roaming to on, and i can select orange from my list of network providers and it seems to register with the network just fine. I get a little "R" over the signal bar (not sure what this means?) and it seems to be limited to edge, but the signal is very strong.

However, it will still drop signal in the house if i stand in particular areas. Does it usually have to drop completely before it flips?

Many thanks for any insight you can offer!
 
clv101 said:
Just try to manually select the Orange network.
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Yeah I can do that, and it registers with the network, but my signal bar has a little "R" above it (any idea what that means?) And the connection speed is limited to edge. That itself is a little strange as i know the orange signal round here is very strong, so surely i should be getting GPRS speeds on 2g?
 
R means roaming, as you are. It's only 2G roaming so EDGE is as good as you'll get on Orange. EDGE is faster than GPRS though.
 
clv101 said:
R means roaming, as you are. It's only 2G roaming so EDGE is as good as you'll get on Orange. EDGE is faster than GPRS though.
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Ah thanks for the heads up - i was under the impression EDGE was slower for some reason. So when flipping automatically, i should see the signal bar change to this same graphic - i.e. with an R above it. In that case, I'm not convinced the phone is automatically switching between the two networks. Is there a specific setting to force this in android? Or should it just do it by default? I have data roaming turned on, though i realise this is a specific option to control whether or not data is allowed whilst roaming. Many thanks for the help!
 
if i recall from earlier in the thread, your phone will try and stay on your proper network until it can't any more instead of just switching to whichever is strongest. Thats why i just leave mine on t-mobile (im on orange) as i'll get signal until i move the phone and then it all goes. just easier to leave it on the stronger network until my new phone comes in a week or so.
 
Hi guys, i got the text from orange after i registered on the website to do this thing, i reply YES but it just stays on "sending"?!

Help please :)
 
Anyone help me with my iphone thats factory unlocked....

Got a orange sim in it and signed up but i cant get on the tmobile network......even though its a good signal here.
 
just picked up t mobile then lost it...

Shame as orange and t mobile here are both not in 3g neither are voda

3 was the best network i had for internet coverage
 
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