Poll: ** The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Thread **
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Three is by far superior operator to anyone who travels a lot in their "free roaming" countries.
EE might be for those who stick to UK.
Really? I went to NYC last year with 3 and it was pretty much unusable. Ibiza as well wasn't the best and nor was Germany, France, Belguim or the Netherlands. O2 haven't been much better if I'm honest.
The only provider from what I can tell that has decent roaming is Vodafone, where data actually works abroad and you can get 4G.
Sure that's not more to do with the phone and/or the networks you roamed onto?
Was that with an iphone for example? I mean if it roams you onto sprint or tmo over there then yes that could be pretty patchy but can't you just manually select verizon or at&t?
Yes on iPhone and I manually tried selecting all the available networks. A friend was recently over to NYC with her mate, one on Vodafone and the other on 3. Guess which worked? Certainly not 3!
I was with 3 years ago and I travel to Germany every year as well as Ibiza or Spain. Back when you paid £5 a day it was brilliant, everything worked albeit at a slower speed. But after Feel at Home came in my handset was nigh on unusable abroad. Apart from some email and occasionally going on Facebook I couldn't do anything. As I said, it's the same with O2. I'll be going to Vodafone as their roaming actually works, maybe EE if they start being competitive with their prices.
I've had very little problem with 3 roaming. It is for sure not as speedy as the best 4G connections, but invaluable help in using maps, whatsapping / chatting / posting pictures to friends etc.
I've only used it in Europe, so maybe it is horribly slow in HK or US?
I really couldn't care less if it just 1Mbit connection, as long as it is free and I can just leave roaming on when abroad (obviously only in limited countries).
I've only used it in Europe, so maybe it is horribly slow in HK or US?
I really couldn't care less if it just 1Mbit connection, as long as it is free and I can just leave roaming on when abroad (obviously only in limited countries).
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I've had this problem at times with my 6 and 6s. Best thing I've found to fix it is to go into the settings and change connection to 2g, wait 10seconds and go back to 4g and it switches. For whatever reason it seems at times I will get stuck on a 3G connection even in a 4G zone and it won't change. I've had this issue on almost every network (Vodafone, 3, EE) so I think its some small bug somewhere in the networking stack. Also never noticed it on Android.
It doesn't always happen but it happens often enough to be annoying, moreover when the 3G speeds are trash <1mb and 4G goes up too 100mb.
I have to add Three with their "home from home" is pretty much unusable. Using data in Hong Kong I would have been quicker using carrier pigeon, France is not much better. I read somewhere they throttle bandwith if your roaming.
The only reason I'm not too bothered about changing is for £20 I get 200 mins, unlimited text and data.
