Virgin mobile - poor signal

chewynut · 21 August 2011 at 4:23PM

I remember when I was with Virgin mobile. It seemed to involve a lot of walking up hills and whatnot trying to find some signal...

Helix · 21 August 2011 at 4:49PM

the.weekender wrote: »

I recently changed from Orange to Virgin but now have signal strength probs, I thought that I would be OK as Orange share with T-mobile and Virgin piggyback off T-mobile.
Is it possible that T-mobile reduce Virgins reception somehow, or any other reason?
TIA

They are not sharing with Orange yet for Virgin Mobile customers, so you can only use T-Mobile masts at the moment. Sharing with Orange is coming later in the year for VM customers.

traceya89 · 21 August 2011 at 7:34PM

i cant get a signal indoors with 3. i have complained to the ombusman and have won my case to leave 3 with no penalty. however, 10 months into a 24 month contract i have to return the phones (mine is a blackberry, daughters is an iphone), but having to fork out £400+ for 2 new phones is not within my means, so i have 28 days to decide whether to return phones and start from scratch. i would have been happy for a £10 reduction in monthly payments for the inconvenience of not being able to use phones indoors. and with that £10 free would have bought a cheap payg phone with tesco in caseanyone needed to contact us urgently!

the.weekender · 26 August 2011 at 4:20PM

I have done a bit of trawling on the www. and have found that a joint T-Mobile/Orange upgrade is on it's way sometime this year, it is called Everything Everywhere, hopefully it lives up to its name, just google it for more info.
FWIW there are images of all the main management team, only two bothered to wear a tie, I must be getting old.

vuvuzela · 26 August 2011 at 4:35PM

the.weekender wrote: »

I have done a bit of trawling on the www. and have found that a joint T-Mobile/Orange upgrade is on it's way sometime this year, it is called Everything Everywhere, hopefully it lives up to its name, just google it for more info.
FWIW there are images of all the main management team, only two bothered to wear a tie, I must be getting old.

This happened several months ago. Seems to have worked fine for me, no ideas about others experiences tho.

the.weekender · 26 September 2011 at 9:06AM

I read somewhere that the T-Mobile/Orange mast share commences today, anyone noticed this?
FWIW I will find out later if it has happened in my area.

jb66 · 26 September 2011 at 9:45AM

29th I was told

the.weekender · 26 September 2011 at 5:15PM

In the village where the Orange signal is good I managed to use my Virgin mobile OK today, maybe a coincidence or maybe it was the 26th after all, time will tell.

justzman · 23 December 2011 at 9:28PM

Don't be conned by Virgin Mobile's coverage maps and their use of Sprint towers. I was. I can hardly get a signal, when I do it is 1 bar, downloads are painfully slow if you can even get them to work. I will be forced to switch to another carrier and have wasted alot of money, time and energy on an android phone that won't work on any other network.

Helix · 23 December 2011 at 9:36PM

justzman wrote: »

Don't be conned by Virgin Mobile's coverage maps and their use of Sprint towers. I was. I can hardly get a signal, when I do it is 1 bar, downloads are painfully slow if you can even get them to work. I will be forced to switch to another carrier and have wasted alot of money, time and energy on an android phone that won't work on any other network.

This is a UK forum, why are you posting about Virgin Mobile USA it is just going to lead to confusion.

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