My feelings about O2 reception

[Anonymous]

I have just joined the forum today as I was interested to see what other people think about O2's reception around the country. My own experience is that it's very variable even when I'm in a city when I think 'surely I must get a signal here.'

At least a voice call connects more times than not, but internet access is pretty abysmal most places. This generally doesn't connect. I carry a Three mifi dongle with me and use this to connect to the internet if I'm not able to join to a landline broadband.

What bugs me are the texts telling me about the services I could use. Well I can't if I don't have a signal.

They can supply me with cinema and concert tickets. If I want these I'll go to a cinema or theatre. I don't go to a cinema to buy a phone, I go to a phone provider. Perhaps if they concentrated on their core business a bit more I might actually get a better service for the money I am paying. They are telling me about 4G now. I wont hold my breadth. After all these years of not be able to make 3G work I can't see them getting 4G to work in a few months.

I am unfortunately tied to O2 until December but then I'll be free to leave and then, dare I say it, my smart phone may actually appear to be smart.

[Anonymous]

Hi a_hcir

Thank you for your positive feedback which gives balance to the postings on this subject.

Glad to hear things have gone well for you since your switch. It does go to show that each network has places where signal is better or worse than others.

[Anonymous]

I switched to O2 last September and I'm pretty happy with the day to day coverage - I get reasonable signal at home and I can actually use the phone at my Mum's, which I could rarely do on Vodafone.

However I was surprised to have no signal just outside of Guildford recently and the coverage in Sussex was quite poor so I'm hoping these areas improve. 

I appreciate that no network will give perfect coverage.  I was previously on Vodafone and had to have a Sure Signal due to no reception at home.  Last time I went to Lyme Regis I had no signal on Vodafone but full signal on my tablet on Three.  We are going back this year so fingers crossed O2 has signal!