Image compression and traffic management

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking of rejoining O2 after a few years with Vodafone and have a few queries.

1) is O2 still using data compression on mobile data? Specifically compressing images resulting in very poor image quality and video quality
2) is O2 using any traffic management policy which will slow down my mobile data?
3) how is the 1800MHz refarming going and where is this available?

Thanks

[jonsie · Accepted solution]

Yes they still use data compression but there is no traffic management though congestion could cause slow speeds as with any network. I would seriously get free sim cards from all the networks to check the best network coverage rather than commit to a contract only to find you have signal issues further down the line.

As for the rollout, it seems to be going quite well but O2 don't publish a timetable. None of us know on here which areas will get it next I'm afraid and customer service won't be able to give you that information either.

[MI5]

We had a suggested idea posted in the ideas section about compression but I think O2 rejected the idea of removing it.
You can get around the compression issue by using the word "bypass" as the APN log in name though.

[Anonymous]

Does the bypass username work for the idata APN?

[MI5]

Never tried it on iOS to be honest.

@adamtemp64 might know?

[jonsie]

I'm sure he says that it does in an older thread.