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Disparity between claimed coverage and actual coverage

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:00:15 GMT

I visit two places where I can receive no signal whatever. One is Nettlebed in Oxfordshire and Hughenden Valley in Bucks. In your coverage guide it states that signal is good in both areas. This is an obvious untruth. I wonder if anyone else on 02 has discovered this disparity?

Re: Disparity between claimed coverage and actual coverage

adamtemp64 — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:40:17 GMT

we are all customers here.
But in a recent sunday times article(i think it was) they admited an issue with what is shown and use a different map when applying for planning permissions.

Re: Disparity between claimed coverage and actual coverage

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:39:51 GMT

I travel all over the UK with my work and have done for the past 10 years, mainly to the same places Of all the phone providers I have used in that time , I can honestly say that O2 has thrown up more blackspots than any other.
To be standing outside in a major town in Yorkshire and getting one bar is not acceptable. In my view, the addvertising of coverage by use of the maps on phone companies websites, wants looking at . It is clearly fraud to be claiming an area has good coverage when in fact, it has no coverage at all.

Re: Disparity between claimed coverage and actual coverage

adamtemp64 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:44:46 GMT

found this from the daily mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... erage.html

Re: Disparity between claimed coverage and actual coverage

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:35:53 GMT

I get it all the time, predict good coverage but in reality it's pants

Re: Disparity between claimed coverage and actual coverage

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:52:05 GMT

I travel all over the UK with my work and have done for the past 10 years, mainly to the same places Of all the phone providers I have used in that time , I can honestly say that O2 has thrown up more blackspots than any other.
To be standing outside in a major town in Yorkshire and getting one bar is not acceptable. In my view, the addvertising of coverage by use of the maps on phone companies websites, wants looking at . It is clearly fraud to be claiming an area has good coverage when in fact, it has no coverage at all.

Which network have you found to be the most accurate and consistent ?
Regards

Re: Disparity between claimed coverage and actual coverage

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:03:02 GMT

Vodafone has had the better coverage in most places I have been too, ie Yorkshire as a whole, the North of England, South Wales and the Greater London area.