Posted by 10ten
Whats the best uk network on contract deals? Virgin,02,Vodafone,T-Mobile or Orange? Your opinions please
Posted by hItMaN..
i would say tmobile
Posted by 10ten
Whats the worst uk network?
Posted by max99
best orange/o2 worst voda or 3g
Posted by defensive
personally you can't go wrong with Vodafone / Orange / O2 but from past experiences steer well clear of T-Mobile BUT can't really comment on 3 as they only do 3g phones, so depends which type of phone/deal you want.
Posted by jeko.uk
i reckon 02 is the best
and the worst is t-mobile and vodafone
Posted by david1975
orange by some margin for me
Posted by hItMaN..
T-MOBILE!!!!
Posted by sunjivas
orange and t-mobile for customer service
o2 for signal
Posted by david1975
i personally found t mobile to expensive
Posted by richardlusty
o2 is the best, especially their online sim only deal! could never be happier. And especially since i work for them i am not forced to say this at all
hehe
Posted by JT
o2 is the best. I remember about three years ago they only charged 2p/min on the pay and go service for off peak-calls to landlines.
Brilliant
The worst are Vodaphone and 3
Posted by Mr Miyagi
they still charge 2p a min for calls to landlines and o2 numbers on the weekend though
Posted by ph-m
T-MOBILE!! no doubt about it
Posted by JT
Oh didnt know they still did that
Brilliant
Posted by Mr Miyagi
orange and t mobile i'd say are great for customer service, o2 are good for pay as you go, for contract they are not so good, vodafone i dont like them at all. one reason i think o2 are good for customer service is cuz i was going to switch to orange pay as you go and pay £15 a month for 3000 off peak text msgs a month, and i went to o2 and asked them for my PAC code since i told them i was leaving to join orange, they asked why, i explained why and they said they would match the same tarrif of £15 a month for 3000 texts on pay as you go for my o2. So i said go ahead and do it, they told me it'l take 30 days to switch tarrif however they said as a good will gesture they will give me £20 free credit, so yay for o2 pay as you go.
Posted by savoy164
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I've just switched to O2's Talkalotmore Tariff from Orange because they currently have the best reward scheme with their 10% cash back. When I looked at signing up for Orange's Bonus Topup I found so many restrictions on how you use it wasn't worth the bother.
With O2 you don't have to worry about how, when or what calls you spend your reward money on.
http://www.o2.co.uk/o2rewards?ref=hpmod345txtLink1
Posted by Lembo
o2 all the way....... cheap, less branding, strong signal.
That's all I need
Posted by jcwhite_uk
Where I am O2 have the strongest signal. The customer care has always been excellent, the branding of their phones is less than all the others and their tariffs seem to be the cheapest.
Posted by darrengf
The best thing to so is check on what covereage is like on where you live and work the most, This is where you would use the phone most with out you even knowing.
Im with Orange but do have all the other networks sim cards.
T-mobile in my experience has ok out door coverage but not so good indoor. I know from wherei live my main City (Sheffield) I can loose the T-Mobile Signal in a few pubs and clubs and loose the signal in most ot the shopping center at Meadowhall.
Other 3 networks are ok on the above.
At Matlock in Derbyshire, the coverage is good for all of the 4 networks, however going into shops change, Orange and Voda is all i get.
Some parts of Rotherham, When im in the gym only network i get is Orange and T-Mobile, how ever 3 miles up the road at a friends house and the only descent network there is 02 and T-mobile, However i get the other 2 but the signal isnt very strong.
At work in Chesterfield i work in a call center the only network i cant pick up is Voda. Go out side and it says full coverage however in the building is none. (the building is made of steel but has glass all around it.
Skegness used to be extremely poor for Orange coverage, this is now not the case,
Great Yarmouth has the strongest Orange coverege of all 3 networks,
Willingham woods at Lincs (Cafe) has poor coverage of 02, Orange and Voda. No coverage of T-mobile at all.
So it doesnt matter where you go or where you are there are go with what ever suits your needs. Mine is Orange, Gr8 Customer care, service and quality. 02 are cheaper but dont expect the world, Voda are ok but nothing to write home about, T-mobile are ok but for me expensive. (Virgin) uses the T-Mobile Network (Shame) But does have gr8 customers care.
Also Orange, Voda, Virgin have 24 hour customer care,
o2, T-mobile dont
hope this helps
Daz
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Posted by Glenny
orange or o2-orange for prices (and the funny old guy) and o2 for hardly any branding and good sim packages thing
Posted by lee_bmx
02 02 02 02 02 02 02
Posted by amnesia
O2 is the best. Then 3 for deals.
T-Mobile stores always smell like fart.
EVERY single one.
Voda is a scam.
3 give you good minutes, but their extras are pricey.
Orange is alright, but their branding is like pissing me off. Half your mobile's screen just to see their stinking menu.
But Voda is the demon!
VODA DEMON!
Posted by absinthebri
Having used all of Voda, T-Mob, Virgin, O2 and Orange over nearly twenty years, I rate O2 as the best network over all with Virgin second. My only gripe with O2 is the lack of delivery reports with SMS.
Posted by kk.226
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Go away....!
.................................02!!!!
Posted by bluebottle
am i alone in disliking o2?
the way i see it, they offer reasonably good deals in return for awful customer service.
i do have a great signal, but no better than most others where i am. but be warned, if you live in lancaster uk, o2 is not the way forward apparently.
i suppose i havent been with another company for a few years now to compare, but nothing can get sorted out with o2. so you're fine if you have no problems. if you do, you're kind of stuck.
i dont rate voda though.
Posted by number2
Not t-mobile or Vodafone... both are Poo!
Posted by majikman
vodafone dont seem to be able to reply to any correspondence which is a surprise as they are supposed to be a major leauge communications company. website sucks too and i'm stuck on an 18 month contract...booo
Posted by p900 lover
if ur talking about coverage the vigin will be the same as t-mobile, i used 2 b on t-mobile then moved to o2,
o2 is ok, still the network coverage could be better i think, expecially indoor,
i think orange are quite good but i cant do branded fones so cant really go with them,
voda are good but over priced
3, NO COMENT
Posted by dgilmartin
I know that this is for UK networks only, but I think o2 is the best Network provider in Ireland
Posted by Kwiksta
from my experience...vodafone for all features and network etc - not for branding!
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02 for all the crazy s*** they do - network aint great...
Posted by BONDIE_86
O2 O2 O2 O2 O2 O2 O2 O2 O2 O2 FOR PAYG, THE CONTRACT DEALS SEEM GOOD TOO
HAD A VODAFONE CONTRACT ONCE... IT COST ME A BOMB
Posted by Gooner Girl
Just out of interest, I'm getting vibes that Vodafone is the Microsoft of the phone world?! Why are they coming out so badly?
I've been with Vodafone since about 1971...well -ish and have had no probs? What have they done that I should be on my guard against?!
Posted by london-uk
I have been with Vodafone for a while now, and I'm really not happy. I find that reception is very bad. At first I thought it could have something to do with my handset, but I've tried P910, K700, V3 and now W800 & K750, and I consistently get really bad reception. I presume that I could expect bad reception in rural areas, however I live in central London, where I would expect to get good service...
Additionally, I have found Voda customer service to be reprehensible. Sometimes I'll call them up with a specific query (to which I know the answer, but I'll need them to do something), and it seems that if they can't immediately find the answer they'll just try to fob me off with clearly erroneous advice. It really is the luck of the draw (I'll speak with two or three utterly incompetent people, and then on the third or fourth call I might get lucky enough to get put through to someone who knows what they are talking about.
Briefly returning to the signal issue. I live approximately 250 yards from Tower Bridge (which I consider fairly central, therefore I would expect a reasonably good signal), and I only get between 1-3 bar signal on Voda. To contrast this, I also have an O2 sim on which I get between 4-5 bars (consistently) in the exact same conditions.
Another gripe with Voda (well, there are so many that I have chosen to limit them here) is the voicemail. I have experienced lags in notifications. These lags have been anything from 1/2 hour to a full day (and this is not just the notification, but also the actual presence of the voicemail). Voda's answer to this has been that "the network is busy, and we can't guarantee that all call voicemails appear in your inbox immediately". While I appreciate that they may be busy, it seems ridiculous that I quite frequently don't get my voicemails for anything up to 12-14 hours.
Finally, I have the trouble with calls being diverted to voicemail, although my mobile is on and displaying that a signal is present. This has happened several times with callers ringing from the UK (I'm also in the UK). But more often than not, it has happened with callers from Luxembourg and Denmark (quite often they will call me on a land-line immediately afterwards and tell me that when they call my mobile, it diverts directly to voicemail).
Anyway, there are so many reasons why I am unhappy with Vodacrap that I can't be bothered to list any more. (completely forgot their branding policy...)
Well, have a good day
and I apologise for my rant
Posted by SCORPIONKING1982
I've found o2 to be the best all rounder. They've got a good mix of decent tariffs and good signal. Orange would be the winner except they dont have any signal where I live. Everywhere else is fine just not at home
Posted by mwjdavies
I have had a O2 contract for past 4 years, few probs in early days when the kept messing with my contract terms and conditions, but apart from that its all been good!
Only gripe is if have to phone up customer services, not the cheapest or the best, but such is life!
Coverage always good for me
Posted by mwarner
Here's my opinion:
Best
O2 - They don't overly customise your phone (no physical branding and very little firmware branding), they have excellent tariffs for me (500 free texts per month) and their free SIM offers make us all a bit of money once every month or so
Worst
Vodaphone - The branding just sucks - they physically brand phones and their firmware customisation is by far the worst in the industry.
Posted by mudpucket
im with Voda and when my contract expires in April, i may just leave. I find they offer better deals to the new customers rather than the old n faithful.
Posted by Gooner Girl
Well ironically I'm just about to leave Vodafone after about 10 years and go to O2 as they were able to offer me a good tariff and the W800i free.
It's a wierd feeling, changing networks, like changing your football team allegiance! So, I hope you lot are right about O2.....
Posted by mwarner
So, GG, have you got your O2 phone yet?