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Guest SimonRobinson
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Earlier today (I installed the registry fix a few days ago, that enables the "E" icon, but hadn't ever seen it), the "G" GPRS icon changed to "E", and the web browsing went really fast. Are Orange trialling EDGE in the UK?

BTW, this was in the Rhondda, South Wales.

Guest rsearley
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Earlier today (I installed the registry fix a few days ago, that enables the "E" icon, but hadn't ever seen it), the "G" GPRS icon changed to "E", and the web browsing went really fast.  Are Orange trialling EDGE in the UK?

BTW, this was in the Rhondda, South Wales.

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I would guess, that if you had the 'E' and fast browsing, then you must have had an edge connection

Guest Jay3gsm
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Orange are indeed trialling EDGE. So far I've been unable to get an EDGE connection anywhere either where I work or live.

Guest SimonRobinson
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Orange are indeed trialling EDGE. So far I've been unable to get an EDGE connection anywhere either where I work or live.

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Ooh, am I the first UK C600 user to get an EDGE signal, then?

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Interesting artical here

I think a few of the networks may roll out EDGE in the UK this year.

Guest Paul [MVP]
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Orange ARE rolling out EDGE in the UK, but only on a very limited scale and as fill in for where 3G won't get to!

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Guest hoyler30589
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i received an edge signal at a place called muston near scarborough on the yorkshire east coast. :)

Guest dpeilow
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Orange ARE rolling out EDGE in the UK, but only on a very limited scale and as fill in for where 3G won't get to!

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So what your saying is that Orange's state-of-the-art smartphones will soon get nice broadband speed downloads out in the sticks and revert to drip-drip-drip GPRS data in built up areas? Nice one Orange :?:

Dave

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its a bit strange for me. I leave about 10miles from scarborough right on the sea front.

I get an edge connection at home and half way to work then it drops to gprs but the connection speed seems to be slower when the edge is received.

should this be right

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Dont think anyone else will roll out edge to a large scale in this country, most are concentrating on HSDPA, they would rather people moved to their WCDMA (3G) networks

Guest graphic-solutions
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Hi SimonRobinson

What was the registry fix you installed that envoke the EDGE on your phone ??

Guest wanderers
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Hi SimonRobinson

What was the registry fix you installed that envoke the EDGE on your phone ??

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There is a link on Orange for this:

http://www.orange.ro/services/edge.html

it is however the romanian orange site.

Nice to see they get better info than the UK

Guest spacerace
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Dont think anyone else will roll out edge to a large scale in this country, most are concentrating on HSDPA, they would rather people moved to their WCDMA (3G) networks

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someone in the uk.telecom.mobile newsgroup got an EDGE signal on his T-Mobile Vario recently, so I do't think it will be just Orange rolling it out.

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someone in the uk.telecom.mobile newsgroup got an EDGE signal on his T-Mobile Vario recently, so I do't think it will be just Orange rolling it out.

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It will be interesting to see if others will roll it out, any ideas on what kind of business plan would be behind such a move?

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It will be interesting to see if others will roll it out, any ideas on what kind of business plan would be behind such a move?

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no definitive answer no. the article on silicon.com quotes an Orange spokesperson

Deploying an EDGE network is typically a relatively inexpensive process, using an operator's existing infrastructure - with modern networks, just buying a licence from an EDGE supplier can be enough to go live.
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"It's designed to be complementary to people using our 3G service. EDGE allows us to extend slightly further into rural areas. The focus is more on 3G - helping us to fill in the little areas that maybe won't get 3G for a while."
Guest graphic-solutions
Posted

I've now got the edge.reg file and PHM regeditor on my C600 - now what do I do ??

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