Changing mobile provider quirk

[AdamJ]

Looking to change our contract for six iPhones and talking to each provider to see what they can offer. All have stressed how good their 3G coverage is at our office postcode, but why do we need 3G where we have our own wifi - a bog standard phone signal will do there. But ask them about coverage elsewhere in the UK as we're out on the road all week every week and they get very waffly. Still not sure who has the best 3G coverage.

 

[british steve]

According to Ofcom (the only opinion worth anything) 3 have been proven to have the best 3g network and coverage, that said customer service is a joke, run from an overseas call centre by staff who have little knowage of mobile networks or English.

 

[Pete31]

i have concluded that after a few years of going up and down the country working for a couple of different firms, so on different providers, that o2 seem to have the best OVERALL coverage...with vodafone a very close second.

not a very technical or indeed thorough conclusion to make, but vaild all the same!

 

[AdamJ]

Thanks Pete - I think personal experience is always useful rather than just on the coverage the companies claim. I'll phone them both at lunchtime. And thanks to Steve I won't be phoning 3.

 

[Amelixuk]

I would have a look at T-mobile or Orange. We have been with T-mobile for years and now they have merged with Orange you get the benefit of both networks.

 

[AdamJ]

Of O2, Vodafone and Orange, the two-year costs for 6 iPhone4 handsets, equivalent call and text packages and 1GB data on O2 and Orange, 3GB data on Vodafone (doesn't go lower) as quoted by them is:

Orange: £6,240
O2: £4,931
Vodafone: £4,886

So, as Vodafone are the cheapest, seem to have a god coverage map and also offer free calls to all UK landlines I think I have a winner. Bye bye O2.