Review and win an O2 Pocket Hotspot

[Abs]

Wish you had one of our Pocket Hotspots in your pocket? Well, your wish can come true…

Always wanted to write a techie review? Love winning stuff? Here’s a fantastic opportunity, just for you Community members to review & maybe even go on to win an O2 Pocket Hotspot. We’ve got our hands on a bunch of Pocket Hotspots that we’d like you to review. All you have to do is, tell us why you’d like to review the small yet powerful gizmo and how can it change your day-to-day life?

As we've said, the competition is open to all members of the O2 Community and will close at 8PM on Friday 10th August 2012. We’ll then select three lucky people who’ll then review our gadget for a week. Once the three reviews have been completed, they’ll be posted in the O2 Community, in their own words, and share the experiences with our amazing little gizmo. And out of those three, the community member with the best review will win an O2 Pocket Hotspot.

Any Q’s let me know and if you’re all clear then, go go go – all the best folks!

Thanks

Abs

NOTE: The competition has been extended so more community members can participate. The closure will be at 8PM on 10th of August

[Anonymous]

No good for me at the moment. I've been moving round the country and having to use another network for 3g. O2 has only worked for a quater of the locations (3 out of 12) whilst the unamed network has worked in all of them.

[Anonymous]

So I wonder where this £1,000,000 per day is being spent ?

[jonsie]

That'll be London innit!

[adamtemp64]

o2mach2 did you see my off topic thread just done a 3g speedtest in a non 3g area according to the coverage maps.

But to answer your £1million question guess in the congested areas of London etc and a bit of rural expansion

[adamtemp64]

And who are the lucky winners to test the device 3 have been chosen but who is getting a special delivery tommrow?

[jonsie]

.............cos it ain't me!!

[Anonymous]

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@adamtemp64 wrote:

o2mach2 did you see my off topic thread just done a 3g speedtest in a non 3g area according to the coverage maps.

But to answer your £1million question guess in the congested areas of London etc and a bit of rural expansion

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Yes I saw that.

Reason I question where it's being spent is that it's so easy for large companies to spout massive spending figures and at the end of the financial year nobody seems to check their veracity.

Logically, can Telefonica afford to spend £260,000,000 a year (52 x 5 working days) on their mobile network or more to the point, why should it be necessary for them to spend that amount ? If it's on maintenance then God help those on O2 and if it's on new hardware and software......then they must be so far behind their competitors, why bother ?

[MI5]

I wonder if any of the "winners" were long serving members of the community who have helped out hundereds of O2 customers with issues that O2 couldn't fix......??

[jonsie]

Probably sworn to secrecy!

[Abs]

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@O2MACH2 wrote:

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@adamtemp64 wrote:

o2mach2 did you see my off topic thread just done a 3g speedtest in a non 3g area according to the coverage maps.

But to answer your £1million question guess in the congested areas of London etc and a bit of rural expansion

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Yes I saw that.

Reason I question where it's being spent is that it's so easy for large companies to spout massive spending figures and at the end of the financial year nobody seems to check their veracity.

Logically, can Telefonica afford to spend £260,000,000 a year (52 x 5 working days) on their mobile network or more to the point, why should it be necessary for them to spend that amount ? If it's on maintenance then God help those on O2 and if it's on new hardware and software......then they must be so far behind their competitors, why bother ?

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The overall figure covers our network infrastructure, maintenance, upgrades, optimisation and regular roll-outs. We’ve introduced 3G onto our superfast 900MHz spectrum in many cities across the UK and our aim is to eventually match our 2G coverage footprint with U900 within the next 2-3 years.

It is necessary for us to prioritise our investments to those areas where it’s most needed - this may include factors such as number of customers and number of cell-sites that already exist in a particular area. Sadly, it’s not feasible to provide a list of those locations or commit to when a particular area will have an upgrade as planning processes can be lengthy and complicated. However, we update our coverage checker online when a new site is built and you can find more details on our network here: http://www.o2.co.uk/network

Thanks, Abs