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9 responses to “Orange/T-Mobile Hybrid 3g Coverage Map – Looks Good!”

1. 2009/09/08

   Mark Hendy

   I like this but is it possible to inverse it, as an Orange customer I mean?

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2. 2009/09/08

   ramtopsrac

   So how does this compare with 02 and Vodaphone? Is it really going to make them that much more competative?

   And when will someone work out how to cover Exmoor with mobile signal, let alone 3G… we’re expecting a quiet holiday this autumn, but will need to contact the builders, which could proved expensive from a phonebox to their mobile!

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3. 2009/09/08

   Neil

   Isn’t it also possible that some of the purple areas are not orange. i.e. you can’t see purple only vs purple&orange, so you may also lose coverage in some areas.

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4. 2009/09/08

   Neil

   And it may all be irrelevant –

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8243226.stm

   T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger
   An Orange and T-Mobile shop in Liverpool
   If completed, shop closures and job losses are seen as inevitable

   T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers.

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5. 2009/09/08

   Neil

   oops ignore my message – very bad at following other peoples links

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6. 2009/09/08

   Ben

   Seems like the pair of them have more coverage off-shore in some areas than they do on-shore!!

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7. 2009/09/08

   Simon

   Neil, of course they have better mobile reception at sea. Nothing to get in the way of the microwave signals at sea. No hills, no trees, no corner reflectors (except the odd ship).

   Similarly there is great mobile coverage in the skies, but they tend not to like people using that as much.

   I’m a bit of a cynic of coverage maps. I’ve rarely been without mobile coverage on Dartmoor (and most of the time all you want is Emergency cover so any network is fine). Yet the maps say “zilch” for most of it.

   I think you just get what there software says it’ll look like, since clearly no one wandered around Dartmoor going “yes”, “no”, and I’m guessing no one programmed in how bleak bits of moorland can be.

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8. 2009/09/09

   Neil

   That was Ben not me (Neil), the “name” is below the comment, not above.

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   1. 2009/09/09

      alecm

      oops

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