T-Mobile - warning?

digp

asbokid wrote: »

T-Mobile is a strange company..

They are the only mobile phone operator in Britain which is refusing to make public the geographic details of its microwave base station masts.

Lots of people want to know the mast locations on health grounds (warranted or not).. T-Mobile is locking horns with OFCOM over this in the High Court. Such secrecy is sinister. A company to avoid for that reason alone, IMO.

It is such a rubbish network. Could it be because they don't have many?

martyp

I agree that the idea of diverting to another number would be something you'd consider to be included in allowances as if you were phoning that number direct but recall finding out about this when I joined T-Mobile when they were One2One in 1998...
I had unlimited 'local calls' at the weekend at the time but never set a divert to my home phone as I knew even then it would be charged.
On a slightly different note, I joined them partly for the appeal of free voicemail and free itemised billing and both those were scrapped (even more irritating was when I joined their new mobile e-mail service and they suddenly started charging to receive e-mails when I joined a very active mailing list and in one evening I suddenly got charged for a ton of e-mails I couldn't easily stop!)

sporedude

digp wrote: »

It is such a rubbish network. Could it be because they don't have many?

Any solid proof to back that up? Come on, Lets see it.

agsnu

sporedude wrote: »

Any solid proof to back that up? Come on, Lets see it.

Hard to have any solid proof when they're mounting legal challenges to stop people having access to such information, no?

Anyway, my anecdotal experience (and that of most other people I know) is that the coverage on T-Mobile is a bit worse than other networks.

adewton

agsnu wrote: »

Hard to have any solid proof when they're mounting legal challenges to stop people having access to such information, no?

Anyway, my anecdotal experience (and that of most other people I know) is that the coverage on T-Mobile is a bit worse than other networks.

I am not sure you are right about coverage. It depends on where you are in the UK. I have used all the major networks in the UK, apart from Vodafone. Reception is the same in my little 'village' of Croydon and my work base of Burgess Hill.:dance::dance:

agsnu

adewton wrote: »

I am not sure you are right about coverage. It depends on where you are in the UK. I have used all the major networks in the UK, apart from Vodafone. Reception is the same in my little 'village' of Croydon and my work base of Burgess Hill.:dance::dance:

Yes, that's right. The fact that it's OK in 2 places (one of which within the M25) means that the coverage is perfect everywhere :rolleyes:

All the major networks have good coverage in most areas. I was on T-Mobile for 18 months without a major problem, because I spend 99.5% of my time in London. But in more rural areas, I did find reception patchier than other people did. Friends of mine from college on T-Mobile who went home tended to report more problems when they went to their parents houses in holidays - little towns/villages east of London, near Reading, in rural Norfolk, etc.