From: baldelectrician on
I have been with Orange and Voda within the past couple of years

Voda seem to declare better coverage, but there was no end of
problems- dropping calls, poor reception in a fair few local villages
etc- places I had no problem with Orange

The phone reguarly lost the network and would need a manual roam to
lock it back to Vodafarce

Went back to orange and all is better.
Firstly as a business customer, latterly renewing as a personal
customer (better deal)

Found Voda after sales service inept and inadequate-- had a business
contract but had to send phone away for repair.
With Orange care I call up and geta new (or refurbished) handset same
day (if calling in before 930am, or following day, Phone is couriered
to any UK address I want

Asked Voda why they didn;t do that- they used to, but it cost too much

All in all - Orange better than some, but could do better (like bring
back Wildfire and everyphone)
From: Jon Pitts on

"Woody" <harrogate3(a)ntlworld.spam.com> wrote in message
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>> "Woody" <harrogate3(a)ntlworld.spam.com> wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have got used to the coverage of Vodafone and the slick system
>>> operation, then O2 and Lemon will be a considerable let-down.
>>>
>>> Orange hangs on to the call per cell as far as it will go then often
>>> finds
>>> the next cell has no resources available and drops the call, so you get
>>> many more repeat calls with Orange.
>>
>> At the risk of opening an old thread...
>>
>> As a technical statement, I'd be very interested in your evidence for
>> this.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jon.
>
>
> Put it like this. On Vodafone I could drive from here (Harrogate) to York
> in conversation without a single drop. Then we moved to Orange and the
> same conversation would drop out an require a redial four times, every
> time at the same place within a few hundred yards or so - the first being
> at the bottom of our road. Signal strengths are good throughout.
>
>
>

This sounds like a problem with inter-cell adjacencies missing somewhere.

Please contact me off-forum and I'd be happy to check the specifics of this
example. "In theory" it should be fairly simple to resolve if - as you say -
coverage levels are good..

Regards

Jon.



From: Jon Pitts on
"Steve Terry" <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote in message
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>> Steve, you recently mentioned in another thread that most of Orange's 3G
>> sites are co-sited with their 2G ones. By that logic surely there isn't
>> that much of an advantage of having Orange 2G/3G compared with 2G alone?
>> JL
>>
> <snip top post>
>>
> Except there are (or soon will be) more Orange 3g BTS than 2g,
> and even though they are co sited, they aren't necessarily set up
> for the same coverage or directions
>

Steve,

Could you be so kind as to enlighten me as to when this concentration on 3G
BTS started? It certainly isn't the reality of the Orange UK network at the
moment!!

Regards

Jon.