Will O2 ever get decent coverage

[Anonymous]

Will O2 ever spend money on there network? I live in Wales and its only EE that provide 3G coverage. At the moment I am on Vodafone but 3G is non existent. I had a O2 PAYG sim card a 2 years ago. But the coverage was a waste of time. O2 disconnected it after a period of time as I think it was a embarrassment to them. Has this improved in the last 2 years?

[Anonymous]

they probably disconnected it if there was a long period of time where the sim wasnt used. find the best network that has the right coverage you desire. i suggest you try different payg sims to compare the signal

[Anonymous]

I used a few sims the Orange and Tmobile stayed connected. O2 was so poor it was a waste of time. I travelled around the country, the coverage was terrible. I tried the Sim in different hand sets but still rubbish. I thought theydisconnected it because of the poor coverage? I have a contract phone on Vodafone, but Vodafone don't have any 3G in rural Areas so was looking to change?

[Liquid]

They tend to retrieve the phone number after a period of inactivity.

Your best bet is to find one that works best for you. I travel the country and very rarely have signal issues. I'm in Amsterdam at the moment and having no issues with calling/txts to uk.

Pick the network that works best for you.

[Anonymous]

I will have to ditto you there. Through my short time of using O2 I have one unreceived text message so far, and one text message that go scrambled. Short time being 3 months. This is not acceptable, and also fix Delivery Reports, update your infrastructure so that Call Waiting is available. And that should hopefully make O2 more ready for the 21st century and the outages.

[Liquid]

Hopefully there won't be anymore outages now the 3rd party has been shown the door.

I just mentioned in another thread apparently around 3% of SMS disappear daily. I think you may just off been lucky with your previous contract.

[Anonymous]

Who was the the third party!? I didn't know someone else was operating for O2.

And maybe but my first impressions were that O2 is a very different network with how it runs.

• No delivery reports
• No call waiting

I get the idea they are bandwidth saving measures but why? Every other network can offer these.

[Liquid]

Ericsson databases was apparently the main cause of the outages.

http://www.zdnet.com/o2-scraps-ericsson-database-after-second-major-network-outage-7000005972/

O2 I believe has a fair few more customers than the average network( would love to find stats)

Obviously an increase in network traffic such as delivery reports could put considerable stress on a network. Presumably resulting in more lost sms/patchy calls.

Call waiting is definatly one I could go for. One of the reasons my business contract is with another network. I can't afford my call not to go through to an employees phone because their chatting to a mate haha.

[Liquid]

I won't disagree they don't operate like everyone else. Even after 5 years with them(personal) I haven't made up my mind weather it's better or worse haha.

[perksie]

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@Anonymous wrote:

• No call waiting

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O2 do have Call Waiting:

http://service.o2.co.uk/IQ/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=Companion,question=ref%28User%29:str%28Mobile%29,CASE=13452