What is up with O2 Network !

bloodiedathame said:
I'm tempted to jump ship. Was sat on a train at Waterloo station yesterday, phone says 3 bars of 5G... no internet. Not even Speedtest would connect. WTAF.
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Standard. There's parts of a city near me, where I used to work 15 years ago, where this happened regularly at busy times of day. Still happens now.
 
I'm with O2 too and finding my signal from them can be iffy, but normally indoors. It was a bit awkward when I needed to transfer some money at a supermarket checkout recently and I had to enable airplane mode then disable it to get a usable signal.

On a similar note, I found one of my first proper mobile phones and smiled to myself when I spotted the signal booster sticker behind the battery. :o
 
In SW London and work in Central. After years with 3 who were pretty bad, jumped to Sky (O2) and it's starting to feel like 3 days again. Did a day trip to Barcelona recently and it was the first time where it was near pointless expecting signal. I guess EE next but they're so expensive...
 
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Been with o2 for the last 2 years since getting my pixel 7 pro and the signal has been awful since day 1. Ive been all over the country with the mrs on holidays etc and she always has better signal on EE with her cheap budget phone, sometimes i will have no network and she'll be on 5G.
Luckly today is the last day of my contract, i already have a spusu sim here to activate which uses the EE network so fingers crossed i'll have a decent signal again, plus its also 6 times cheaper than what i was paying to Opoo.
 
With the beacon divide, people generally find O2 reasonably good in the east and absolutely painful in the west. O2 manage their network upgrades in the east. Vodafone manage the west and the majority of O2’s network upgrades (apart from unwound areas).

Vodafone are generally very good in the west and not quite as good in the east.

O2 are the biggest network in the UK with the most connections. Unfortunately in a lot of places they have the least capacity of all 4.

I am on O2 and they are painfully slow in places but 80gb data for £8 per month (plus roaming in EU, USA/Canada) and the doubling of my Virgin Media connection, I tolerate them.
 
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Recently got VM with o2 failover, it takes 5 minutes to kick in and the max speed down is 1.5mb and upload if we're lucky of 500kb. Ping registers in the seconds. Our o2 phones can just about manage inside (double figure speeds) but no idea why this data only sim has nothing. Other staff on Vodafone have no issues either.
 
I get decent O2 signal at work (where we're not allowed phones). The signal at home has gotten pretty terrible recently. Shows full strength signal when outside but nothing works. In the house it is quite terrible.
 
The backup phone I keep in the car is on O2 - not really paid much attention to it until this thread but a lot of the time it is getting only 2G where it used to get 3/4G before and not great data throughput with lots of stalling... been thinking of moving it to another plan anyhow as the price has crept up.
 
damnnnn, dont say this people. Thinking of changing from vodafone to 02 simply because of the price. But with voda i get signal wherever i need
Or should i stick with vodafone and just use uswitch to change
 
bm_999 said:
damnnnn, dont say this people. Thinking of changing from vodafone to 02 simply because of the price. But with voda i get signal wherever i need
Or should i stick with vodafone and just use uswitch to change
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It depends where you are really.

In the east of the country O2 are a lot better than they are in the west.

The actual signal should be very similar to Vodafone, they share the same masts.

The quality, depending what capacity is available locally and where you are could differ massively.
 
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Finally at the end of my contract with O2 and that's me done. Not going to consider going back to them for a very long time and will get a test sim first to be sure. Nothing I can add here that hasn't already been said in this thread really.
 
The O2 signal around Middleton (North Manchester) is non existent. Quite literally in most parts as there's been a mast issue for about 4 years. Even when it 'worked' it was noticeably slower than EE / Vodafone.

There's actually an O2 store in the town centre and I genuinely don't know how they sell a single phone. There is absolutely no O2 signal there at all due to the mast issue and it being inside an old, concrete arndale. They must either be fantastic salespeople or conmen.
 
My contract ended years ago, so only on a monthly rolling one with O2 now - but as I use my data for navigation on my motorcycle, having it constantly lose signal isn't ideal.

Think u switch had a Vodafone SIM for 8 quid, which is almost on par with what I pay O2, so I'll likely go for that - might wait for the sales though, see if there's anything cheaper
 
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