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Bonovox
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Posted: 2013-05-03 19:47
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Orange are shit. I remember your network of choice Miss UK was always Vodafone.
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Posted: 2013-05-05 21:05
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Yes they were but I can't see them copying
3 anytime soon or any other network unless
They change there descision on 4G pricing
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Posted: 2013-05-09 03:39
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Virgin are capping customers speeds now to a paltry 2mb per second This was since they started their unlimited data tariff which on pay as you go is actually 95GB/month. I know this as i briefly tried them some months back and it says on your account 95GB and unlimited texts. Not totally unlimited but more than enough for most. But as they run off EE i tried an Orange sim in my phone today(had a spare) and after years of not being with them i have found their signal has dropped to 1 bar in my room compared to the days i was with them last back in 2003. Yet using Virgin sim signal was great. Orange truly have gone shite. All i read now is constant complaints still nothing has changed since Hans Snook left all those years ago as Orange boss. He made Orange great all those years ago. Now they are just a bottom class network imo with most complaints and slowest speeds. Their EE service must be awful

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/07/virgin_choking/

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Posted: 2013-05-09 21:38
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Virgin aren't even a proper network for mobile devices, they're just an added extra of a bigger company. That's why they have such poor deals on mobile phones. How about a Blackberry curve 8900 for £99 on a £35p/m two year contract ?

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Posted: 2013-05-09 22:26
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That's a bit expensive. They do unlimited data though which is good but with poor speeds
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Posted: 2013-05-11 10:07
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I made that up, but ive seen terrible deals. Like a Nokia C2 feature phone on a similar priced tarrif to an Apple iPhone but with half the minutes and data.
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Posted: 2013-05-20 16:25
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Virgin mobile don't even do iPhones
I've asked about them getting them but there
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Posted: 2013-05-21 12:40
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Vodafone is going to go the same way as EE

http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/2013/05/21/vodafone-says-4g-should-be-priced-at-a-premium/
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Posted: 2013-05-21 19:48
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Wouldn't surprise me at all. Vodafraud have always been by far the worst network ever for greed, fleecing of customers and poor service.
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Posted: 2013-05-21 20:01
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They need to still sort out their 3G signal let alone 4G. In Birmingham for some reason their 3G is absolutely awful. Often showing 1 bar 3G outdoors in built up areas. My brother took out a contract with them a year ago & I always told him call me if you wanna get a new phone or switch networks. He doesn't know much about tariffs or phones and Phones4U kinda bullied him into a contract with Vodafone saying that Three network doesn't work on their handsets (they do) He now has slow, poor 3G signal at his flat where he lives & works on a golf range on the edge of Birmingham. He does alot of You Tube and they offered him 250mb data
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Posted: 2013-05-22 20:58
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http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.u[....]ples-shock-163000-mobile-bill/

Whoops, Orange left oranged faced. I reckon this will happen more with 4G bills.

Vodafone & Orange were on Watchdog again tonight about complaints of their poor networks in central London. People having a full signal yet have slow internet,calls to voicemail and text not sending.
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Posted: 2013-05-29 18:28
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http://www.wpcentral.com/tria[....]4g-sim-only-plans#comment-form

I had a rant in this forum about EE
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Posted: 2013-05-29 20:51
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Glad my contact with T-Mobile runs out in a couple of months, looks like 3 is the safest bet.
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Posted: 2013-06-04 12:49
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Three network went dead last night,no internet at all from 23:30 to about 10am. I tried calling them but the lines were extremely busy as it seems most of the network was down. Now this happens rarely on Three in my experience and there was an apology and recorded announcement on calling 333. But it was all sorted and back on by 10am. If it were O2 it would have been days and chaotic.
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Posted: 2013-06-11 23:33
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Never had an outage in my life as far as I can remember with any network.

My single grip with Three is coverage. Its often p*ss poor when other networks can get a signal. As proven last week on my camping holiday when in Wales I got very poor signal when in many towns and almost none existent signal when in the countryside.

We went up to the summit of mount Snowdonia, 1085 feet I think, I had no signal (unsurprisingly) whilst my girlfriend, knowing that im the phone geek I am, took great pleasure in 'checking in' with EE whilst stood on the summit pedestal !!
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