Shared masts with vodafone

[Anonymous]

Hi all
I've spent a bit of time in Penzance and the o2 signal is so poor. Having spoke to o2 they told me that I should be able to use Vodafone as they share masts but to select in manually. I do this and get no service. I'm on an iPhone anyone got any ideas?

[jonsie · Accepted solution]

O2 may share masts but they don't share network. Sometimes they put an O2 cell on the mast but you can't connect to Vodafone.

[jonsie]

If you are on contract you can try TuGo over wifi connection.

[Curr946]

Yeah I agree with @jonsie , never heard of signal sharing with vodafone

[MI5]

Connect manually to vodafone, seriously, they told you that  !!

@Toby some retraining required here I think

[Anonymous]

Wonder who put that on the prepared script 

[Bambino]

Ridiculous. Customer service seem to be making it up as they go along these days.

[MI5]

@Anonymous the idea behind mast sharing is that o2 and voda hang a transmitter on the same tower and that's as far as it goes. Both these transmitters are connected to separate backhaul systems so logging into a voda signal is not a viable proposition I'm afraid.

In places where shared bandwidth may be available there is no need to manually select another network either.

[jonsie]

You couldn't make it up!.....oh wait...yes they can

[Anonymous]

Got to say 10/10 for originality 😅