Orange Network Coverage

[Guest adambern]

I've had the C500 for a week now and around the Reading area coverage is quite good. I've another week to test the handset (which I think is great) and the network before I have to decide to leave Vodafone for Orange.

My question is: what do people think of the Orange network - how it works in towns, rural areas and in buildings. Any user comments would be appreciated.

Apologies if this is the wrong place for this.

[Guest TigerNet]

...very good question to which I would like to add:

How good is Orange when roaming on a global basis? I am also considering leaving O2...

Cheers

Nick

(hope it is posted in the right place :wink: )

[Guest Blakey]

Personally I think Orange reception is excellent. I live in the South East of England and rarely struggle to find reception, even at work in a Wifi and high computer environment. When I went down to deepest Pembrokeshire with my girlfriend last weekend, she was on O2 and had zero signal at all, and I had about 50%. Down in Cornwall, where I also often travel I rarely find a lack of reception too. I think Orange have to rank as one of the best providers I've seen, coverage-wise.

Also, for what its worth, the 150 number is excellent. Okay, so often you get a bunch of idiots on the phone there (and I'd always come here in preference for advice) but at least it's totally free so you can keep phoning up till you get your problem resolved.

I had a vodaphone contract a few years back and had no ends of hassle when I tried to send my old crappy phone back as unfit for purpose. Okay, so that was just my personal experience, but I won't go near them again.

Personally, I think Orange are excellent.

Blakey

[Guest Phil Lee]

I find Orange to be very good in the North West. My fiance does have a little bit of trouble in certain parts of her house in the North East though. I think that might be due to a didgy transmitter though.

[Guest RazorD]

Compared to my past o2, orange is stunning.

I can hold a GPRS connection for more than 2 minutes.

I'm fairly near you adam, in Swindon, so hopefully its as good there as here.

-Liam

[Guest shaund316]

I've been on both orange and o2 (on orange now) living in southampton and I never have a problem with signal except for obvious places like tunnels when in the train (but I remember hearing somewhere that orange are putting transmitters in tunnels soon to sort it!). The GPRS is a lot better than o2 aswell, as o2's is a bit inconsistent with whether it'll connect or not

[Guest rikwebb]

I have an O2 work phone, and an Orange personal phone.

I live in the east midlands, but travel all around the UK and have visited lots of Europe and even the US.

The o2 phone is set to forward to the Orange phone (enough said!).

Quite often I get a forwarded call from work, bounced from the o2 network on my Orange phone, even though my O2 phone has signal.

I have never had a problem with Orange signal, but the O2 is quite often flakey.

The audio quality of Orange is far better than that of O2 (in my opinion, and setting aside the e200). My C500 is stunning!.

Hope this helps

Rik

[Guest duncan888]

I've been involed with getting mobile contract for where I work for 400 engineers all over the country. We tested Orange and o2 in every region of the UK and the best coverage we found between the 2 was o2.

[Guest snowgoon]

Scottish viewpoint - could be better!

I used to live in Bucks, 100% coverage all the time. Moved to Hamilton and get patchy reception in my own house. Ranges from 25% to 100% outside of Glasgow but I've never missed a call cos of it. Just a few blank spots and they are getting fewer as well.

[Guest doyle_am]

I live in Hertfordshire and the only problem I have is when I go into our office.

For some reason the builders made it out of the worlds best anti-signal material and I get no reception at all. Yet if I stand in the open doorway I get a full signal. Damn cowboys they must have been :)

- Andy