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O2 lead calls but lag Data - Rootscore report London

aldaweb — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:03:54 GMT

O2 had best results for calls and texts but was behind EE in mobile internet according to a report published by Root Metrics since the rollout of 4G on O2 and Vodafone.

http://rootmetrics.com/uk/compare-operators/united-kingdom/london/london-october-2013/

Re: O2 lead calls but lag Data - Rootscore report London

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:17:47 GMT

Thank you for sharing.

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Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:20:09 GMT

@aldaweb wrote:
O2 had best results for calls and texts but was behind EE in mobile internet according to a report published by Root Metrics since the rollout of 4G on O2 and Vodafone.

http://rootmetrics.com/uk/compare-operators/united-kingdom/london/london-october-2013/

So the annoying Kevin Bacon advert is correct then? EE has the best overall data network?

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Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:46:41 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@aldaweb wrote:
O2 had best results for calls and texts but was behind EE in mobile internet according to a report published by Root Metrics since the rollout of 4G on O2 and Vodafone.

http://rootmetrics.com/uk/compare-operators/united-kingdom/london/london-october-2013/
So the annoying Kevin Bacon advert is correct then? EE has the best overall data network?

He has a shed load of data !

Lol.

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aldaweb — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:10:58 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
So the annoying Kevin Bacon advert is correct then? EE has the best overall data network?

He has a shed load of data !

Lol.

Re: O2 lead calls but lag Data - Rootscore report London

MI5 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:52:26 GMT

EE is great for data - just don't try and make a phone call 😞

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Anonymous — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 06:53:58 GMT

I was so tempted to migrate to ee as the network supported my iPhone 5 on 4g, but that's no use if the whole package doesn't work 😞

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MI5 — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:25:07 GMT

Making calls is painful. They always drop out - and I do mean always.
We have a "boostbox" at work and even with phones getting a full signal, no one can make it work for calls.
We are supposed to have a dedicated EE technical team working on our issue as we manage literally thousands of phones across many contracts but even they are hopeless.
Our company is currently looking at switching to a new provider (note we are a nationwide company so it's not a location based issue).

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perksie — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:41:44 GMT

That's very poor from EE, it's not that surprising that O2 chose to use an app instead of a box, they ran tests on these going back at least 4 years and decided universal use of a box wasn't the way to go.

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MI5 — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:41:22 GMT

Their cell towers are hopelessly overloaded. One of the tech guys told us that when they merged to become EE they rationalised many of the T Mob / Orange masts but did it without any (much) thought for capacity. So they shove everything through around 70% of the masts that T Mob / Orange had independantly.....

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perksie — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:43:19 GMT

That makes them sound very cheapskate, let's hope O2 don't use that route.

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MI5 — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:45:52 GMT

Hopefully not.....
Let's hope that "Mast Sharing" with Voda doesn't mean "Mast Reduction"........!!

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perksie — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 11:48:54 GMT

I'm sure it will in some areas, but they have to be careful to meet their requirements under the agreement with Ofcom to cover 98% of the population.

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adamtemp64 — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:31:37 GMT

"The plans will mean both companies will have access to over 18,500 sites, which is an increase of more than 40% for each operator. And, because of the way we’ll be pooling sites, we expect there will be more than a 10% overall reduction in the total number of masts in the UK between both us and Vodafone – a great result for the environment!" source http://www.o2.co.uk/network/future

so a big increase in total masts rembering the deal is mast / site share not equipment I think capacity on o2 / voda will not suffer

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Anonymous — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 10:33:17 GMT

My girlfriend has an ee phone the data is good but forget it for phone signal They weren't on watchdog for nothing

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Anonymous — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:45:29 GMT

O2 are indeed rubbish for data, the only things I use on my phone that use data are Facebook, and downloading songs from Amazon, for the months of September and October, I've gone over my 750 Mb allowance!

But that's only because I don't know the password for Plusnet Wi-Fi when I'm at home because I turn Wi Fi off when I'm out! I know I could find it out by going to my router's admin page but I don't know the address for it, oh well, a quick trip to the Plusnet forum is in order to find out.

*edited for extra detail and typos*

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MI5 — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:44:18 GMT

If you're burning through 750mb they can't be that bad for data ???

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Bambino — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:55:09 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
O2 are indeed rubbish for data, the only things I use on my phone that use data are Facebook, and downloading songs from Amazon, for the months of September and October, I've gone over my 750 Mb allowance!

But that's only because I don't know the password for Plusnet Wi-Fi when I'm at home because I turn Wi Fi off when I'm out! I know I could find it out by going to my router's admin page but I don't know the address for it, oh well, a quick trip to the Plusnet forum is in order to find out.

*edited for extra detail and typos*

If you're using data to download songs instead of using your WiFi connection, that isn't O2's fault, it's yours. You can very easily find the Plusnet password if you took the time to ask someone. That's just a total waste of money.

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Anonymous — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:55:28 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
O2 are indeed rubbish for data, the only things I use on my phone that use data are Facebook, and downloading songs from Amazon, for the months of September and October, I've gone over my 750 Mb allowance!

But that's only because I don't know the password for Plusnet Wi-Fi when I'm at home because I turn Wi Fi off when I'm out! I know I could find it out by going to my router's admin page but I don't know the address for it, oh well, a quick trip to the Plusnet forum is in order to find out.

*edited for extra detail and typos*

If you're using data to download songs instead of using your WiFi connection, that isn't O2's fault, it's yours. You can very easily find the Plusnet password if you took the time to ask someone. That's just a total waste of money.

I just did a thread on the Plusnet forum asking, according to one of their Mods it's underneath the router, it isn't, I looked.

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MI5 — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:56:39 GMT

Try username "admin" and password "admin".