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Old 17-03-08, 10:40 AM
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3G, the company not the technology, is the coverage as naff as it used to be?

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Old 17-03-08, 11:07 AM
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Don't know about the company, but the technology, Orange anyways, is cr@p. Even Orange recommends turning it off on my phone. For some reason, my TyTn can't look at available signals and decide which is the best.

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A colleague of mine got a 3 phone last week, and has been raving about it ever since. I quite like the fact that you can watch TV on it in quite decent quality!
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Yeah, I'm after an 8GB N95 for various reasons, mainly the camera and wifi.
3 have it for free on a £15/month 18 month contract, but I have no quarrel with O2, with whom I'm with now.

I may look at Orange as coverage at sea is supposed to be better, (although I AM VHF qualified ) and you get 1/2 price cinema tickets.

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Yeah, I'm after an 8GB N95 for various reasons, mainly the camera and wifi.
3 have it for free on a £15/month 18 month contract, but I have no quarrel with O2, with whom I'm with now.

I may look at Orange as coverage at sea is supposed to be better, (although I AM VHF qualified ) and you get 1/2 price cinema tickets.

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Is this on your list of chores?
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Is this on your list of chores?
It'll decrease monthy outgoings
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Yeah, I'm after an 8GB N95 for various reasons, mainly the camera and wifi.
3 have it for free on a £15/month 18 month contract, but I have no quarrel with O2, with whom I'm with now.

I may look at Orange as coverage at sea is supposed to be better, (although I AM VHF qualified ) and you get 1/2 price cinema tickets.

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I've been with 3 for about 2 years now. (I currently have the N95 as well)
I used to travel to Norway & Sweden almost every week and have also used it in the US as well as all over Europe and never had a single issue (You can even access 3g content in Sweden as there is a 3 network there)
If you want to access 3g content in this country then you will occasionally run in to problems as the coverage is not 100% (the phone will still work, just not the 3g content) and in some rural areas it goes to 2g content (phone only)
I think you will be hard pressed to get better value for money than with 3 but the call centres can be a little frustrating.
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I may look at Orange as coverage at sea is supposed to be better, (although I AM VHF qualified ) and you get 1/2 price cinema tickets.
I have a work mobile on the Orange network and their coverage in some areas is c**p it is the worst one out of all of the providers. I'm not sure about their 3g coverage though.
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Yeah, I'm after an 8GB N95 for various reasons, mainly the camera and wifi.
3 have it for free on a £15/month 18 month contract, P
are you sure thats not just the video pack? dont you have to take a mix and match bundle too?
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